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Chapter1 Government
Chapter 1: Introducing Government in America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Individualism | A belief that individual problems can be solved by individual, not governmental, solutions. |
| Gross Domestic Product | The total values of all goods and services produced annually by the United States. |
| Policy Gridlock | Where each interest uses its influence to thwart policies they oppose so that no coalition forms a majority to establish policy. |
| Hyperpluralism | Argues that too many strong influential groups cripple the government's ability to make coherent policy by deciding government and its authority. |
| Elite and Class Theory | Argues that society is divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite rules on the basis of their wealth. |
| Pluralist Theory | Argues that there are many centers of influence in which groups compete with one another for control over public policy through bargaining and compromise. |
| Representation | The relationship between the leaders and the followers. |
| Minority Rights | Protecting the rights and freedoms of the minority in choosing among policy alternatives. |
| Majority Rule | Weighing the desires of the majority in choosing among policy alternatives. |
| Traditional Democratic Theory | A set of principles which specify how a democratic government makes its decisions including equality in voting, effective participation, enlightened understanding, citizen control of the agenda,inclusion, majority rule,minority rights, and representation. |
| Democracy | A means of selecting policy makers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
| Policy Impacts | The effects of a policy on people an society's problems. |
| Public Policy | A choice that government makes in response to some issue on its agenda. |
| Policy-making Institutions | Institutions such as Congress, the presidency and the Courts established by the Constitution to make policy. |
| Political Issue | This arises when people disagree about a problem or about public policy choices made to combat a problem. |
| Policy Agenda | The list of subjects or problems to which people inside and outside government are paying serious attention to at any given time. |
| Linkage Institutions | Institutions such as parties, elections, interest groups, and the media, which provide a linkage between the preferences of citizens and the government's policy agenda. |
| Policy-making System | Institutions of government designed to respond to each other and the priorities of the people by governmental action. |
| Single-Issue Groups | Groups so concerned with one matter that their members cast their votes on the basis of that issue only. |
| Political Participation | The ways in which people get involved in politics. |
| Politics | Determines whom we select as out government leaders and what policies they pursue; in other words who gets what; when, and how. |
| Public Goods | Things that everyone can share. |
| Government | Institutions that make public policy for a society. |
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