Final exam review

I have searched to find out about Nigeria's Supreme Court, the justices, and their term of office. This is the best I have gathered. There is one Chief Justice and there are 13 associate justices (in the US one Chief Justice and 8 associates just for a frame of reference). As far as I can tell, the terms are for life, or until the regime changes. There are some justices on the court that have been there since 1999, but that is also when the 4th republic came into power. There is your enlightenment for the day! Have a great holiday and don't work too hard!

Here's the review - it contains the essays trickily mixed in! Trickily may be my own made up word:)

Final exam review guide
1. How do interest groups differ from political parties?
2. Know similarities and differences between the Prime Minister in Great Britain and Russia.
3. What are the characteristics of a civil society?
4. What were the consequences of ending the centrally planned economy in Russia after 1991?
5. What is the most common strategy of developing countries in dealing with population growth?
6. What are indicators that a political regime is legitimate? Which is the best indicator? Define political legitimacy.
7. Know the government type (i.e. federal, unitary, confederal) of the Republic of Iran.
8. What are the consequences of China’s one-child policy?
9. What are the gross national product (GNP) and the gross domestic product (GDP) used to compare countries on?
10. Who is Nigeria’s head of state?
11. Compare the first past the post and the proportional representation electoral system.
12. Know the characteristics of liberal and illiberal democracies.
13. Know ways in which a corporatist system differs from a pluralist system.
14. What features of the Russian political system make it a mixed parliamentary/presidential system of government?
15. Know the terms correlation and causation.
16. Know why leaders in a unitary system might choose to decentralize power, ways they may do this, and how a decentralized unitary system differs from a federal system.
17. Know Britain’s argument against joining the EU, and their reaction to a single EU currency.
18. Know arguments for China privatizing industry, and China’s response to global pressures to privatize industry.
19. What are the ways the Iranian political leaders have democratized Iran’s political process, and how have they resisted democratization?
20. What are the ways the Iranian political leaders have democratized Nigeria’s political process, and how have they resisted democratization?
21. What does the term “failed state” mean?
22. Know the relationship between per capita GDP and the degree of democracy.
23. What are the characteristics of a command economy?
24. What socioeconomic changes does a country undergo as it develops economically?
25. What are the characteristics of a unitary government?
26. In recent years, what reforms have taken place in China?
27. When contrasting presidential and parliamentary systems, what is always true? – poorly worded, but I’m struggling to have it make sense.
28. Why is the year 2000 considered a turning point in Mexican political history?
29. Know the terms of the Maastricht Treaty.
30. What comparisons can be made about elections in Great Britain and Russia?
31. In Nigeria, where (region) is Sahri’ah law part of the legal system?
32. In what ways did the Iranian revolution of 1979 resemble the Chinese revolution 30 years earlier?
33. How would you characterize Nigerian Society?
34. In the 20th century, which country had the longest ruling party, and what was that party?
35. What is the process by which basic political attitudes and beliefs are developed know as?
36. Know the definition for the concept of “nation”.
37. How has the European Union (EU) created a democratic deficit?
38. What type of a system has economic policy necessarily negotiated among government, labor, and industry?
39. Which countries have federal systems?
40. What are the two most powerful policy-making institutions in Iran?
41. What is a key component of economic liberalization in former command economies?
42. What type of regimes had the greatest increase in number worldwide since 1970?
43. What comparisons can be made between Mexico and China in the latter half of the 20th century?
44. What is the organizing principle of the Chinese Communist Party known as?
45. What threatens the welfare service commitments of advanced industrial democracies?
46. What amendment was made to the Iranian constitution following Ayatollah Khomeini’s death in 1989?
47. How can China’s management of public policy crises be best characterized?
48. What type of an organization is the EU?
49. What defines a successful vote of no confidence?
50. Developing countries with multiple political parties most often divide along what cleavage lines?
51. Despite tremendous oil reserves, why does the Nigerian government still have difficulty providing social services throughout the country?
52. What similarities are there between the political systems of Great Britain and Russia?
53. Which country has had a history of coups d’état and military rule during the past 50 years?
54. What is the nature of patron-client systems?
55. What are the similarities between Russia and Mexico?
56. How could one define Iranian political culture?
57. What is China’s approach to ethnic minorities?
58. What term refers to the array of political parties operating in a particular country and the nature of the relationship between them?
59. Before the Mexican elections of 2000, the presidential nominee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had been chosen by what process?
60. Which country can best be described as a theocratic state?