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American Gov. 9th ed
Chapter 15 vocab; Wilson & DiIlulio, Jr. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston NY
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benefit | Any satisfaction, monetary or nonmonetary, that people believe they will enjoy if a policy is adopted. |
| Boycott | A concerted effort to get people to stop buying goods and services from a company or person in order to punish that company or to coerce its owner into changing policies. |
| Client Politics | The politics of policy-making in which some small group receives the benefits of the policy and the public at large hears the costs. Only those who benefit have an incentive to organize and press their case. |
| Cost | Any burden, monetary or nonmonetary, that some people must bear, or think that they must bear, if a policy is adopted. |
| Entrepreneurial Politics | Policies benefiting society as a whole or some large part that impose a substantial cost on some small identifiable segment of society. |
| Interest Group Politics | The politics of policy-making in w/c one small group bears the costs of the policy and another small group receives the benefits. Each group has an incentive to organize and to press its interest. |
| Logrolling | Mutual aid among politicians, whereby one legislator supports another's per project in return for the latter's support of his. The expression dates from the days when American pioneers needed help from neighbors in moving logs off of land to be farmed. |
| Majoritarian Politics | The politics of policy-making in which almost everybody benefits from a policy and almost everybody pays for it. |
| Policy Entrepreneurs | Those in and out of government who find ways of pulling together a legislative majority on behalf of unorganized interests. |
| Political Agenda | A set of issues thought by the public or those in power to merit action by the government. |
| Pork-barrel Projects | Legislated projects that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return. |
| Process Regulation | Rules regulating manufacturing or industrial processes, usually aimed at improving consumer or worker safety and reducing environmental damage. |
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