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19 Cards in this Set
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Government |
The institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society. |
America's has three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. |
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Public goods |
Goods, such as clean air, and clean water, that everyone must share. |
Some are provided by the government. Such as schools, libraries, public parks, etc. |
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Politics |
Determines whom we select as our governmental leaders, and what policies these leaders pursue. |
Harold D. Lasswell's famous definition: "who gets what, when, and how." |
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Political participation |
Activities used by citizens to influence the selection odd political leaders or the politics they pursue. |
Stone methods are voting, protesting, civil disobedience, rioting, etc. |
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Single issue groups |
Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics. |
Tend to cast their votes based on their narrow interest. |
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Policymaking system |
The process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time. |
People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues for government policymakers. These issues shape policy, which in turn impacts people, generating more interests, problems, and concerns. |
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Linkage institutions |
The political channels through which Peeples concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. |
In the United States, these include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media. |
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Policy agenda |
The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actually involved in politics at any given point in time. |
When you vote, you are pesky looking at whether a candidate shares your ______ _____. |
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Political issue |
An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem abe how to fix it. |
There is never a shortage of them, but the government will not act on it until it's high on the policy agenda. |
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Policymaking institutions |
The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. |
The US Constitution established three: congress, the presidency, and the courts. Today, the power of the bureaucracy is so great that most political scientists consider it a fourth. |
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Public policy |
A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. It's a course of action taken with regard to some problem. |
Every decision the government makes - every law it passes, budget it establishes, and rolling it hands down is this. |
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Policy impacts |
The effects a policy has on people and problems. |
It's analyzed to see how well a policy had me it's goal, and at what cost. |
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Democracy |
A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
Takes its places among terms like freedom, justice, and peace. |
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Majority rule |
In choosing among alternatives, the will of over half the voters should be followed |
Restraints on this concept protect the minority's rights, such as freedom of speech and assembly. |
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Minority rights |
Garuntees rights to those who don't belong to majorities. |
Allows that they might join majorities through persuasion and reasoned argument. |
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Representation |
Through this, the desires of the people should be replicated in government through the choices of elected officials. |
Describes the relationship between few leaders and many followers. |
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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. |
Pressing concerns through organized efforts. |
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Elite and class theory |
A theory of government and politics that societies ate divided asking class lines. |
An upper class elite will rule, regardless the niceties of governmental organization. |
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Hyperplualism (theory) |
A theory of government and politics that groups are do strong that government is weakened. |
Suggests that there are too many groups to control policy. |
