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Chapter 1 Key Terms

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- 1What is the name for stuff that cannot be denied to anyone such as clean air?Collective Goods

- 2What is the process that determine leaders and their policies?Politics

- 3What is the name for activities related to selection of political leaders?Political Participation

- 4As a whole what is the name for the institutions that makes public policy decisions for a society?Government


- 5What is the process that allows policy to be created and refined?Policy-making system
- 6What institution allows citizens concerns to become political issues?Linkage Institutions
- 7What is the name for issues that attract political attention?Policy Agenda

- 8What is the name for a problem that people disagree on how it should be solved?Political Issue

- 9What is the name for groups that seek specific change and are uncompromising?Singe-Issue Groups

- 10What is the name for the parts of the government that take action on political issues?Policy-making institutions
Bonus points for naming
-Congress
-Presidency
-Courts
-Bureaucracy - 11What is the name of the choice a government makes about a political issue?Public Policy
- 12What is the name of the effect of a policy?Policy Impact

- 13What is the name of the government type that allows the public to select its policy makers?Democracy
- 14What is the principle of democratic theory that relates to respect for the majority?Majority Rule

- 15What is the principle of democratic theory that relates to the electing of a few by the many?Representation
- 16What theory assumes that public interest will prevail through cooperation with many interest groups?Pluralism
- 17What is the principle of democratic theory that relates to protection from the majority?Minority Rights

- 18What theory assumes that the government is weakened through broad cooperation with groups?Hyper Pluralism
- 19What is the name for when policy is unable to be formed?Policy Gridlock

- 20What is the name for values shared in a society?Political Culture
- 21What theory assumes that some folk make the choices no matter who is elected?Elitism

- 22What is the name for the total worth of goods & services produced in a year?Gross Domestic Product

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- Key Terms for Chapter 1 of the AP government book
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