Exam Study Guide
POL 3433
Final: December 14 – Same Room – 1030 am
CCP – Chinese Communist Party
Founded July 1, 1921 Ran by a central committee but include a party constitution and a National
congress (though the national congress is the highest governing body in China it only meets once every
five years to discuss changes to party operations).
Deng Xiaoping
Served as a prominent leader in Chinese Communist Party politics from ’78 to the early 90s but never
took office. Moved china towards a free market economy. Moved china into the rapidly developing
economic powerhouse it is today
Tang Dynasty
Bakufu
Literally means Shogunate, was the name for the office of the head or leader of the government. The
name implies military leadership such as “House of the general” also came to be that the shoguns
officials were known as bakufu.
House of Represenatives (Japanese diet)
The House of Representatives (衆議院 Shūgiin?) is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The
House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.
The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for four-year terms. Of these, 180 are
elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional
representation, and 300 are elected from single-member constituencies. 241 seats are required for
majority. The House of Representatives is the more powerful of the two houses, able to override
vetoes on bills imposed by the House of Councillors with a two-thirds majority.
