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In comparative Politics, what do we compare?
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Political institutions, types of governments, economic status, history and culture, and social makeups.
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What is the definition of state?
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Organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory
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What is the definition of Government?
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The leadership that administers the state.
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What is a failed state?
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A state that has lost legitimacy and power.
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What is a nation?
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A group of people with commonalities and shared identity such as language and culture
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The definition of legitimacy
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The extent to which a governments authority is regarded as right and proper.
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How governments get legitimacy
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Efficiency. Governments can draw legitimacy from tradition, charasmatic or rational - legal sources
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Traditional legitimacy
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The state is obeyed because it has a long tradition of being obeyed.
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Charasmatic legitimacy
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Identification with the magnetic appeal of a leader or movement
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Rational-Legal Legitimacy
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A system of laws and procedures that become highly institutionalized.
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Where do most modern states derive their legitimacy?
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Most modern states derive their legitimacy from rational-legal sources
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Give an example of a state that used traditional legitimacy
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In Japan and UK the monarchy is a source of traditional legitimacy that complements the rational-legal legitimacy of the state. l
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Unitary Stystem
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Political power is centralized; most power concentrated in captial- very few powers left to region of local bodies.
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Federal System
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Political Power is shared. Can hamper national decision making and accountability.
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Devolution
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The handing down of power. In unitary systems can initiate calls for this.
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