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Ch. 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government | The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies |
| collective good | something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member |
| politics | Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how) |
| political participation | All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. Voting is the most common means. |
| single-issue groups | groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance |
| policymaking system | The process by which policy comes into being and evolves. These issues shape policy, which in turn impacts people, generating more interests, problems, and concerns. |
| linkage institutions | The channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the government's policy agenda. In the United States, linkage institutions include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media. |
| policy agenda | The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. |
| political issue | an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it |
| policymaking institutions | the branches of government charged with taking action on political issues |
| public policy | A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem. |
| policy impacts | The effects a policy has on people and problems. Impacts are analyzed to see how well a policy has met its goal and at what cost. |
| Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| majority rule | the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power. |
| minority rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities. |
| representation | A basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers. |
| Pluralism | A theory of government that holds that open, multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group. |
| Elitism | A theory of government and politics contending that an upper-class elite will hold most of the power and thus in effect run the government. |
| Hyperpluralism | a theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened |
| policy gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, so nothing gets done. |
| political culture | an overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | The total output of all economic activity in the nation, including goods and services. |
Created by:
Mrs. Kaminski
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