Spain: politics and territory
National sovereignty: all Spanish citizens elect the members of the Congress of Deputies, the Senate, the autonomous parliaments, the town halls and the European Parliament every four years.
Constitutional Monarchy: a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.
The Crown: the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.
Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle defenses. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.
Decentralized Government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.
Motion of no confidence: is a vote which states that a person in a superior position is no longer deemed fit to hold that position.
Ministers: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.
Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It's made up of one or several settlements.
Town Council: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain.
Mayor: person that governs the town hall.
Councilors: government officials that, together with the mayor, make up the town council. They elect the mayor.
Province: an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.
Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.
Statute of Autonomy: a law describing the institutions, laws and responsibilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.
Subsidiarity: the services the municipality can provide need not to be provided by the autonomous community.
Autonomous Community: one of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
Exclusive authority: local government power over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, health care and education.
Share authority: local government and state power over laws related to transport or labor market.
Post-industrial society: a society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.
Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population measured by education levels, health care, life expentancy and consumption.
Life expectancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.
Illiteracy: unable to read and write.
Extended family: a traditional big family with grandparents, parents, children...
Nuclear family: contemporary family wth parents and children.
Single parent family: family with a mother or father and children.
Same sex marriages: marriage between two people of the same biological sex.
