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Ch1 PoliticalSci
Chapter One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Authority | is the recognized right of officials to exercise power. |
| Constitutionalism | The idea that there are lawful restrictions on government's power. |
| Corporate Power | Operates in part through the influence that firms have with policymakers. |
| Elitism | Refers to the power exercised by well-positioned and highly influential individuals. |
| Free Market System (pg17) | Operates mainly on private transactions. |
| Judicial action (pg16) | The use of courts as a means of asserting rights and interests - a channel through which ordinary citizens exercise power. (Jury) |
| Political Science (pg7) | The systematic study of government and politics. |
| Political Thinking (Pg3) | Involves the careful gathering and sifting of information in the process forming a knowledgeable view about a political issue. |
| Politics (Pg12) | The means by which society settles its conflicts and allocates the resulting benefits and costs. |
| Power (Pg12) | The ability of persons, groups, or institutions to influence political development. |
| Public policies (Pg21) | The decisions of government to pursue particular courses of action. |
| A belief of sociologist C. Wright Mills | Corporate elites have more control over economic policy than do the elected politicians. |
| Individualism | The reality that officials in the United States spend comparatively less money on government programs for the poor than other fully industrialized democracies |
| The two primary sources of political conflict | scarce resources and competing values |
| How have changes in modern communication affected political thinking in the United States? | The extreme bias and popularity of new forms of media such as cable news networks and Internet blogs have led to a rise in faulty perceptions and thus a decrease in political thinking. |
| Over the many decades of public debate and conflict over the American health care system, what has been the one constant? | Never has a majority expressed a willingness to entrust health insurance fully to government. |
| White House Press Office is no longer run by a single individual becuase | The level to which political leaders spin their messages has increased dramatically. |
| Robert Dahl | Is a pluralist who argues that it is the preference of the special interest that largely determines what government does |
| A handwritten note by a penniless convict brought about the Gideon v. Wainwright Supreme Court case, in which the Court ruled that | Gideon's Sixth Amendment right to counsel had been violated. |
| Major limit on majoritarianism in the United States | the fact that most of the public pays attention to only a small number of issues |
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