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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Chapter 1 Vocabulary for Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government | The institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society. |
| public goods | Goods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share. |
| politics | The process by which we select our government leaders and what policies these leaders pursue. |
| political participation | All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. |
| single-issue groups | Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics. |
| policy making system | The process by which political problems are communicated and the voters and acted upon by government policy-makers. |
| linkage institutions | The channels or access points through which issues and people's policy preferences get on the government's policy preferences get on the government's policy agenda. |
| 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. |
| political issue | An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and a public policy choice, |
| policy making institutions | The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. |
| public policy | A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. |
| policy impacts | The effects a policy has on people and problems. |
| democracy | A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. |
| majority rule | A fundamental principal of traditional democratic theory. |
| minority rights | A principal of traditonal democratic theory that guarentees rights to thoes who do not belong to majorities and allows that they might join majorities through persuasion and reasoned argumented. |
| representation | A traditonal principal of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers. |
| 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. |
| elite an class theory | Government and politics, elites control policies because they control key institutions. |
| hyperpluralism | A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. |
| policy gridlock | A condition that occurs when no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy. |
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