Unit 4, Sec1(AP Human Geog.)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Political Geography | one of the oldest fields in the discipline of human geography in which geographers use the spatial perspective to study political systems at all geographic scales |
| Theocracy | state whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided or inder the control of a religious group |
| Democracies | a type of government in which citizens hold political power either directly and indirectly through representatives |
| Republic | a government in which citizens elect representatives to rule on their behalf |
| Constitutional Monarchy | a government in which the rulers power in limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation |
| Oligarchy | a government run by a few people or small group |
| Authoritarian/dictatorship | type of government in which an individual or a group holds complete political power |
| State | a politically organized territory that is administerd by a covering government |
| Nation | tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, etc. |
| Nation-State | a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity |
| Multinational State | state which contains more than one nation |
| Stateless NAtion | generally defined as an ethnic group not represented by its own unique state |
| State's rights | in American politics and constitutional law, states are guaranteed by the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution |
| Unitary Government | power is cent rally concentrated or no provincial authority where all major decisions are made by the central government |
| Federalism | form of political organization in which governmental power is divided between central and territorial government |
| Popular vote | all the votes cast in all the states |
| Electoral Vote | the decision of a particular state elector that represent the dominant views of the state |
| Reapportionment( redistricting) | the process of relocation of electoral seats to defines territories |
| Gerrymandering | redistricting for the advantage or the[ractice of dividing areas into electoral votes districts to give 1 party an electoral majority |
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