VCE Politics - Unit 1 AOS1 Terminology - Statistics

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Definition	Term	% Correct
A system of government where power and the ability to make rules rests with, and is exercise by, the people to whom those rules apply	Democracy	100%
A system of government where power is divided between a central national government and more geographically dispersed subnational governments that administer smaller regional or local jurisdictions	Federalism	100%
The supreme lawmaking body where elected representatives debate, create and modify laws that govern activity within their jurisdiction, as well as scrutinise the actions of the executive government	Parliament	100%
The degree to which the use of power by particular actors are considered rightful or legitimate	Authority	67%
The idea as the government as a whole must answer reasonable questions and allow itself to be scrutinised by the entire parliament	Collective Accountability	67%
The idea that a government's legitimate use of state power is justified when people over whom that power is exercised agree to consent to it	Consent of the Governed	67%
The expectation and requirement that ministers within the government must be held personally responsible for the activities and decisions taken by them, as well as the government departments they administer	Individual Accountability	67%
The perception that an act, actor, group or institution is justified in its exercise of power	Legitimacy	67%
The expectation that executive governments must be answerable to parliaments, and that their decisions and actions must be exposed to public scrutiny	Responsible Government	67%
The distribution of power to govern between three branches of government; each branch is independent of and has the ability to block the other, which is thought to guard against any one branch becoming too powerful	Separation of powers	67%
The legitimate or widely recognised ability to exercise effective control over matters in a particular area, or within particular borders	Sovereignty	67%
A political system's ability to maintain things as they are, and/or when decisions and changes do not substantially affect the current distribution of power among actors within that system	Stability	67%
A political unit that has a permanent population, defined territory, a distinct government and recognised sovereignty	State	67%

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