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Government Chap. 1

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Linkage Institution structure within a society that connects the people to the government or centralized authority
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time
Public Goods is a good that is non-rival and non-excludable.
Politics process by which groups of people make collective decisions.
Political Participation refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions
Single-Issue Groups involves political campaigning or political support based on one essential policy area or idea.
Policy Making System The way our government responds to the priorities of its people.
Policy Making Institutions They are institutions that make policies. For example, Congress
Policy Agenda list of subjects or problems to which people inside and outside government are paying serious attention to at any given time.
Political Issue series of online peer-reviewed articles published by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Public Policy a course of action adopted and pursued by a government.
Democracy A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state
Majority Rule The principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.
Minority Rights right to be respected , given equal right to have a say and justice and right to caste the vote to select an appropriate candidate of desire.
Representation The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.
Pluralist Theory the belief that politics and decision making is located mostly in the governmental framework
Elite and Class Theory An upper-class elite rules, regardless of governmental organization.
Hyper pluralism Many groups are so strong that government is unable to act.
Policy Gridlock where each interest uses its influence to thwart policies it opposes so that no coalition forms a majority to establish policy
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