Social Sciences. Unit 5.

-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 constitutinalmonarchy represented by the king.

-Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle diffences. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.

-Decentralised 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 organisation 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 intervetion of any other authority.

-Statute of Autonomy: a law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities 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 labour 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 sa measured by education levels, health care, life expentancy and consumption.