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Flashcards by kmorales1256, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kmorales1256
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| Question | Answer |
| Government | The institutions that make public policies for society |
| Collective goods | Goods and Services, such as air that cannot be denied to anyone. |
| Politics | The process of determining leaders and the policy they pursue |
| Political Participation | All things people due to try to influence people to vote for certain leaders |
| Single Issue Groups | Groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance |
| Policy Making System | the process by which policy comes into being and evolves |
| Linkage Institutions | Political channels through which peoples concerns |
| Policy Agenda | The issues that attract the attention of public officials |
| Political Issue | An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem |
| Policy Making institution | 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 the policy has on people |
| Democracy | A system of selecting policy makers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences |
| Majority rule | A fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory |
| Minority Rights | Principle of democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majority |
| representation | Principle of democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers |
| Pluarlism | Theory Of American Democracy emphasizing that the policy making process is very open to participation of all groups with shared interests |
| Elitism | Theory Of American Democracy contending that an upper class elite holds power and makes policies |
| Hyper Pluralism | Theory Of American Democracy contending that groups are so strong that government , which gives in to the many different groups, is there by weakened. |
| Policy Gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition |
| Political Culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| Egalitarianism | the equality of opportunity for members of all groups |
| Individualism | the belief that people can and should get ahead own their own |
| Laissez- Fiare | economics policies which promote free markets and limited government |
| Populism | government of the people run by the people |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation once per year |
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