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Chapter 1 salter
ch 1 Intro Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The institutions and processes through which public policies are made. | government |
| Who gets what, when, and how | politics |
| Groups that have narrow interest and dislike compromise. Ex- PETA. | single-issue groups |
| The access points through which issues & policy preferences get on the gov. policy agenda. Includes elections, parties, media and interest groups. 2 way street politicians learn what the people want, people learn what policies gov. is working on. | linkage institutions |
| List of subjects or problems to which gov. officials and others are paying serious attention to. | Policy agenda |
| The branches of gov. charged with taking action on political issues. | Policymaking institutions |
| A choice that gov. makes in response to a political issue. | Public policy |
| A theory of gov. & politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. (Good because it shows people are participating in gov.) | Pluralist theory |
| Theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines, and that the upper class will rule, regardless of the organization of government. | Elite and class theory |
| Theory of gov. and politics contending that groups are so strong that the gov. is weakened & we end up passing contradictory policies. | Hyperpluralism |
| Condition that occurs when no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy. The result is that nothing gets done. | Policy gridlock |
| An overall set of values widely shared within a society. | Political culture |
| The sum total value of all the goods and services produced in a nation. | Gross domestic product |
| People have a concern or problem, linkage inst. helps bring attention to the issue, as the issue gains attention it makes its way up the policy agenda, one of the policymaking inst. works on the issue, policies are written, the policy impacts the people. | Policymaking system chart pg 12. |
| equality in voting, effective participation, enlightened understanding, citizen control of the agenda, inclusion. | Robert Dahls ideals of democractic process pg 15 |
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