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| Government | The institutions that make authoritative decisions for any given society are collectively known as government. |
| Pubic goods | Goods that cannot be denied to anyone and must be shared. |
| Politics | The process by which we select our governmental leaders and what policies they pursue. |
| Political participation | All the activities that citizens use to influence the selection o political leaders or the polities they pursue. Voting is the most common version of this. |
| Single-issue groups | Groups that have narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise and often draw membership from people new to politics. |
| Policy making system | The process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time. People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues that shape policy. |
| Linkage institutions | The political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. |
| Policy agenda | The issues that attract the serious attentions of public officials and other people actually involved in politics. |
| Political issue | An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it. |
| Policy making institiuions | The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. |
| Public policy | A choice that government makes in response o a political issue. |
| Policy impacts | The effects that a policy has on people and society's problems. |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policy makers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
| Majority rule | A fundamental principle that in a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires tat the majority's desire be respected. |
| Minority rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees right sot those who do no belong to majorities and allows them to join a majority. |
| Representation | A basic principle of traditional democracy that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers. |
| Pluralist theory | A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each on pressing for its own agenda. |
| Elite and class theory | A theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule, regardless oft he formal niceties of governmental organization. |
| Hyperpluralism | A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. An extreme form of pluralism. |
| Policy gridlock | A condition that occurs when no coalitions is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, nothing gets done. |
| Political culture | The political value and ideals that are held up by all citizens of a country. |
| Laissez-faire | An economic belief that the economy will regulate itself without any government involvement. |
| Populism | Theory that politics should respond to the need of the common person. |
| Gross domestic product (GDP) | The sum total of the value of all good and services produced in a nation. |
| Individualism | The belief that individuals should be left on their own by the government. |
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