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AP Gov Chapter 1 SAFMEDS
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- 1GovernmentThe institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society.
- 2Public GoodsGoods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share.
- 3Policymaking InstitutionsThe branches of government in charge of taking action on political issues; the Congress, the presidency, and the courts.
- 4DemocracyA system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences.
- 5Pluralist TheoryTheory in which politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies.
- 6Elite/Class TheoryTheory in which societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule regardless of the formal niceties of governmental organization.
- 7HyperpluralismTheory in which groups are so strong tat government is weakened; an extreme, exaggerated, or perverted form of pluralism.
- 8Gross Domestic ProductThe sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation.