Political Vocabulary Quiz

What does a state use so that it can act and implement policy decisions regardless of the public's support or lack thereof?

• Autonomy

• Charismatic legitimacy

• Coup d’etat

• Federal system

Which form of legitimacy is based on the charismatic appeal or charm of a particular (political) leader?

• Rational-legal legitimacy

• Charismatic legitimacy

• Authoritative legitimacy

• Traditional legitimacy

What is the seizure of control of the state apparatus by military?

• Autonomy

• Charismatic legitimacy

• Coup d’etat

• Federal system

Which system divides or shares power on a permanent or constitutional basis between central or national government and regional governments?

• Federal system

• Unitary system

• Supranational Organisations

• Confederations

What is the people's belief in the state's right to rule and exercise political power?

• Legitimacy

• Nation

• Linkage institutions

• Rational-legal legitimacy

Which word best describes: "a group of people united by a common political or cultural identity or ethnicity, language, etc.?"

• Nation

• Stateless Nations

• State

• Nation-State

What are organisations and systems that help connect citizens to the public policymaking process?

• Linkage institutions

• Rational-legal legitimacy

• Reform

• Sovereign

What is authority based on the established laws and rules?

• Rational-legal legitimacy

• Reform

• Sovereign

• State

What word can be used to express the changes made to regimes through existing political system and political institutions, without rapid trauma or revolutionary change?

• Reform

• Sovereignty

• Restoration

• Coup d'etat

What is the right of a state to have independence and autonomy in the governance of its own affairs?

• Sovereign

• State

• State institutions

• Stateless nation