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Flashcards by Daniel Loera, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Loera
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Government | The institutions through which public policies are made 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 |
| Political participation | All the activities by which citizens attempt to influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue |
| Single issue groups | Groups that have narrow interest on which their members ted to take an uncompromising stance |
| Policymaking System | The process by which policy comes into being and evolves |
| Linkage institutions | The political channels through which people's concerning become political issues on the policy agenda |
| Policy agenda | The issues that attract the 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 |
| Public policy | a choice that government makes in response to a political issue |
| Policy impacts | The effects a policy has on people and problems |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences |
| Majority Rule | The majority's desires to be respected |
| Minority rights | A principle of democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities |
| Representation | Describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers |
| Pluralism | The policymaking process is open to the participation of all groups with shared interests |
| Elitism | Theory that an upper class elite holds the power and makes policy |
| Hyper-pluralism | Theory that groups are so strong that government gives into the groups and is thereby weakened |
| Policy Gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is strong enough to from a majority and establish policy |
| Political culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a year in a nation |
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