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| Question | Answer |
| Government | The institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society. |
| Public Goods | Goods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share. |
| Policymaking Institutions | The branches of government in charge of taking action on political issues; the Congress, the presidency, and the courts. |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
| Pluralist Theory | Theory in which politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. |
| Elite/Class Theory | Theory in which societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule regardless of the formal niceties of governmental organization. |
| Hyperpluralism | Theory in which groups are so strong tat government is weakened; an extreme, exaggerated, or perverted form of pluralism. |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation. |
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