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APGOVChapter 1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Institution | An ongoing organization that performs certain functions for society. |
| Social Conflict | Disagreements among people in a society over what the society’s priorities should be when distributing scarce resources. |
| Politics | The process of resolving conflicts over how society should use its scarce resources and who should receive various benefits, such as public health care and public higher education. |
| Government | The individuals and institutions that make society’s rules and that also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules. |
| Power | The ability to influence the behavior of others, usually through the use of force, persuasion, or rewards. |
| Authority | The ability to legitimately exercise power, such as the power to make and enforce laws |
| Public Services | Essential services that individuals cannot provide for themselves, such as building and maintaining roads, providing welfare programs, operating public schools, and preserving national parks. |
| Autocracy | A form of government in which the power and authority of the government are in the hands of a single person. |
| Monarchy | A form of autocracy in which a king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, or tsarina is the highest authority in the government; monarchs usually obtain their power through inheritance. |
| Divine Right Theory | The theory that a monarch’s right to rule was derived directly from God rather then the consent of the governed. |
| Dictatorship | A form of government in which the absolute power is exercised by a single person who usually has obtained his or her power by the use of force. |
| Democracy | A system of government in which the people have ultimate political authority. |
| Direct Democracy | A system of government in which political decisions are made by the people themselves rather than by elected representatives. |
| Representative Democracy | A form of democracy in which the will of the majority is expressed through smaller groups of individuals elected by the people to act as their representatives. |
| Republic | Essentially, a representative democracy in which there is no king or queen and the people are sovereign. |
| Limited Government | A form of government based on the principle that the powers of government should be clearly limited either through a written document or through wide public understanding; characterized by institutional checks to ensure that government serves public. |
| Parliament | The name of the national legislative body in countries governed by a parliamentary system, such as Britain or Canada. |
| Bicameral Legislature | A legislature made up of two chambers, or parts. (House of Representatives and Senate) |
| Social Contract | A voluntary agreement among individuals to create a government and to give that government adequate power to secure the mutual protection and welfare of all individuals. |
| Natural Rights | Rights that are not bestowed by governments but are inherent within every man, woman, and child by virtue of the fact that he or she is a human being. |
| Political Culture | The set of ideas, values, and attitudes about government and the political process held by a community or a nation. |
| Liberty | The freedom of individuals to believe, act, and express themselves as they choose so long as doing so does not infringe on the rights of other individuals in the society. |
| Equality | A concept that holds, at a minimum, that all people are entitled to equal protection under the law. |
| Capitalism | An economic system based on the private ownership of wealth-producing property, free markets, and freedom of contract. The privately owned corporation is the preeminent capitalist institution. |
| Ideology | Generally, a system of political ideas that are rooted in religious or philosophical beliefs concerning human nature, society and government. |
| Liberalism | A set of political beliefs that include the advocacy of active government, including government intervention to improve the welfare of individuals and to protect civil rights. |
| Conservatism | A set of beliefs that include a limited role for the national government in helping individuals and in the economic affairs of the nation, support for traditional values and lifestyles, and a cautious response to change. |
| Progressivism | An alternative, more popular term for the set of political benefits also known as liberalism. |
| Moderate | A person whose views fall in the middle of the political spectrum. |
| Radical Left | Persons on the extreme left side of the political spectrum, who would like major changes in the political order, usually to promote egalitarian. |
| Radical Right | Persons on the extreme right of the political spectrum. The radical right includes reactionaries and libertarians. |
| Ideologue | An individual who holds very strong political opinions. |
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