AP Comparative Government Terms | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025

AP Comparative Government Terms | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 Authoritarian - Answer -a government based on coercion rather than political legitimacy, such as China Bicameral - Answer -a legislative body with two houses; Nigeria, UK, Russia, and Mexico all have bicameral legislatures Causation - Answer -the casual relationship between cause and result, typically in court, in such a case as an injury Charismatic Legitimacy - Answer -legitimacy derived from the ideas and charisma of a particular leader; these countries usually have week political and administrative institutions; key examples are Mao Zedong in China and Joseph Stalin in the former USSR Cleavages - Answer -factors that separate groups within society suc