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Flashcards by emily leventhal, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by emily leventhal
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| Question | Answer |
| Government | Institutions that make public policy decisions for a society. |
| Collective Goods | Goods and services, such as clean air and clean water, that by their nature cannot be denied to anyone. |
| Politics | The process determining the leaders we select and the policies they pursue. Politics produces authoritative decisions about public issues. |
| Political Participation | All the activities by which citizens attempt to influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue. Voting, contacting public officials, protest, and civil disobedience are all examples. |
| 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. People's interests and concerns create political issues that shape policies which impact people, creating more interests and concerns. |
| Linkage Institutions | The political channels through which people.s concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. (Elections, political parties, interest groups, the media) |
| Policy Agenda | Issues that attract serious attention of public officials and other people involved in politics at a point in 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. (Congress, the presidency, the courts; Bureaucracy can be considered as one too) |
| 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 analyzes to see how well a policy has met its goals and at what cost. |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
| Majority Rule | A traditional democratic theory that states when choosing among alternatives, the majority's desire must be respected. |
| Minority Rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities. |
| Representation | Basic principle f traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between fellow leaders and the many followers. |
| Pluralism | A theory of American democracy emphasizing that the policymaking process is very open to the participation of all groups with shared interests, with no single group usually dominating. |
| Elitism | A theory of American democracy contending that an upper-class elite pulls the strings of government. |
| Hyperpluralism | A theory of American democracy contending that groups are so strong that government, which gives in to the many different groups, is thereby weakened. |
| Policy Gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and established policy, so nothing gets done. |
| Political Culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all goods and services produced by an economy. (In a country) |
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