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State structure and administration

44th World Science Fiction Convention
44th Worldcon (1986)
Bureaucracy
Administrative system governing any large institution
Caliphate
Islamic form of government
City-state
Independent or autonomous entity whose territory consists of a city
Civil service
Government workers that are employed rather than elected or appointed
Decentralization
Process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority
Deep state
Covert governmental networks operating independently of public state political leadership and/or goals
Economic Policy (journal)
Academic journal
Empire
Multiple states under one central authority, usually created by conquest
Executive (government)
Part of government that has the authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state
Federation
Political union of partially self-governing territories under a central government
Head of state
Official who holds the highest ranked position in a sovereign state
Legislature
Deliberative assembly that makes laws
Nation state
Political term for a state that is based around a nation
Parliament
Legislative body of government
Popular sovereignty
Principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
Public administration
Generic term for the administrations that perform tasks of the state, including bodies governed by public law
Public policy
Principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues
Separation of powers
Division of a state's government into branches
Sovereign state
State having the highest authority over a territory
Sovereignty
Concept that a state or governing body has the right and power to govern itself without outside interference
State (polity)
Type of political organization
Unitary state
State with a supreme central government
Welfare spending
Means-oriented social benefit
Welfare state
Government promoting its people's welfare