Uc Open Access Chapter 1

Front 1

What is the system or process that depends on the voice of the people (and not representatives), usually through referendums or initiatives, to make public policy decisions.

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Direct Democracy

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Name the form of government in which one person controls all aspects of governing, the general population has little or no political participation, and their rights are restricted.

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Dictatorship

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Name the 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 organization.

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Elite Theory of Democracy

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Name the theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. Hyperpluralism is an extreme, exaggerated, or perverted form of pluralism.

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Hyperpluralism theory of Government

Front 5

What are channels or access points through which issues and people’s policy preferences get on the government’s policy agenda.

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Linkage Institutions

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What is the form of government in which one person has control, claiming power comes from “divine rights” passed from one generation of the royal class to the next.

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Monarchy

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What are the institutions that enact policies to govern people within a society

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Government

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Which form of government, sometimes called "dictatorship of the party," in which power is shared among an exclusive group, and people have few rights and limited participation in government.

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Oligarchy

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What is the process through which an individual acquires his [or her] particular political orientations--his [or her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political world.”

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Political Socialization

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Name the theory about how a democratic government makes its decisions. According to Robert Dahl, its cornerstones are equality in voting, effective participation, enlightened understanding, final control over the agenda, and inclusion.

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Traditional Democratic Theory

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What is the list of subjects or problems to which government officials, and people outside of government closely associated with those officials, are paying some serious attention at any given time.

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Policy Agenda

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What essay was written by John Locke that indicated the governement has a contract with the people to govern?

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Two Treatises on Government

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What English Enlightenment thinker believed man was naturally in a state of conflict and looked out only for themselves?

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Thomas Hobbes