| direct democracy | Policy making through a variety of processes, including referendums, by which citizens directly cast ballots on policy issues.
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| fiscal year (FY) | A budget year, which may or may not be the same as the calendar year. The U.S. fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30 and is referred to by its
ending date. Thus FY2002 ran from October 1, 2001,
through September 30, 2002.
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| gross domestic product (GDP) | A measure of income within a country that excludes foreign earnings.
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| intermestic | The merger of international and domestic concerns
and decisions.
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| liberals | Analysts who reject power politics and argue that
people are capable of finding mutual interests and cooperating to achieve them.
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| neoliberals | Analysts who believe that the conflict and other ills resulting from the anarchical international system can be eased by
building global and regional organizations and processes that will allow people, groups, countries, and other international actors to cooperate for their mutual benefit.
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| neorealist | An analyst who believes that the distribution across
and shifting of power among states in the anarchical international system is a causal factor that determines the actions of states and, thus, the dynamics of world politics.
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| purchasing power parity (PPP) | A measure of the relative purchasing power of different currencies. It is measured by the price of the same goods in different countries, translated by the exchange rate of that country’s currency against a base currency, usually the U.S. dollar.
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| realist | An analyst who believes that countries operate in their
own self-interests and that politics is a struggle for power.
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