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| Question | Answer |
| Government | The institution that make authoritative decisions for any given society are collectively known as government. |
| Public Goods | Services that are shared by the public such as roads and parks are known as Public Goods. |
| Politics | Determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue. |
| Political Participation | The ways which people get involved in politics make up their Political Participation. |
| Single-Issue Groups | Groups that are so concerned with one issue that members cast their votes on basis of that issue only, ignoring the politician stand on everything else. |
| Policy Making System | Reveals the way our government responds to the priorities of its people. |
| Linkage Institution | Transmit Americans preferences to the policymakers in government. |
| Policy Agenda | The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at any given time. |
| Political Issue | An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it. |
| Policy Making Institutions | The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. The U.S. constitution established three policy making institutions Congress, presidency, and the courts. |
| 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 analyzed to see how well a policy has met its goal and at what cost. |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policy makers and of organizing government so that policy represent and respond to the public's preferences. |
| Majority Rule | A fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory. In a democracy, choosing among alternative requires that the majority's desire be respected. |
| Minority Rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities and allows that they might join majorities through persuasion and reasoned argument. |
| Representation | A basic principle of traditional democratic theory 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 one pressing for its own preferred policies |
| 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 of the formal niceties of governmental organizations. |
| Hyperpluralism | A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. |
| Policy Gridlock | A conditions that occurs when no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy. Th result is that nothing may get done. |
| Political Culture | An overall set of values widely shared within society. |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation. |
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