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GAP Intro Exam
Gov test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Locke | Believed that the purpose of government was to protect the right to life, the right to freedom ,and the right to property |
| Hobbes | Believed that the purpose of government was to control the "evil and brutish" nature of mankind, and the only way to do this was to give all power to a king/queen |
| Mixed Economy | |
| Parliamentary Democracy | a system of gov in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nation's parliament; the leaders of the executive branch come from the ruling party in parliament |
| Direct Democracy | a system of gov in which public decisions are made directly by citizens meeting together in an assembly or voting by ballot |
| Referendum | the practice of submitting a law to a popular vote at election time. The law may be proposed by a voter's initiative or by the legislature |
| Initiative | A procedure allowing voters to submit a proposed law to a popular vote by obtaining a required # of signatures |
| Theocracy | a system of gov headed by religious leaders |
| Federal system | a system of gov in which power is divided between national and regional govs |
| Confederal system | a system of gov in which power resides in the regions, which are independent states; the central gov gets power from regional govs |
| Anarchy | |
| Unitary Sysem | a system of gov in whic power is centralized in the national gov; regional govs only exercise powers given by national gov |
| Montesquieu | Believed that the purpose of gov was to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual |
| Plato | Believed that the purpose of gov was to defend the natural rights of the society |
| Authoritarian | Favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority opposed to individual freedom. Anti-democracy |
| Command Economy | an economic system that relies mainly on the central gov to determine what goods and services to produce and how |
| Machiavelli | Believed that the purpose of gov was to maintain itself and to extend itself |
| Pluralist Theory | The view that competition among all affected interests shpaes public policy |
| Elitist Theory | the theory that an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource- such as money or political power |
| Authority | the right to use power |
| Power | The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions |
| Legitimacy | Political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or constitution |
| bureaucratic view | The theory that a large, complex organization composed of appointed officials who operate gov agencies from day to day |
| Marxist View | The view of ppl who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political one |
| Separation of Powers | A principle of American gov whereby constitutional authority is ahred by three seperate branches of gov- legislative, executive, judicial |
| Natural Rights | |
| Bentham | Believed that the purpose of gov was to maximize the greatest benefit for the greatest # of ppl |
| social contract | |
| Republicanism | |
| Limited Government | |
| Unlimited Government | |
| Oligarchy | a system of gov in which only one political party is allowed by the constitution to govern and power is exercised by the leading memvers of the party |
| Traditional Economy | an economic system in which decisions about what goods and services to produce and how are made on the basis of tradition |
| Monarchy | a system of gov in which a single ruler exercises supreme a power based on heredity or divine right |
| Market economy | an economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how |
| Dictatorship | a system of gov in which a single person or group exercise supreme power based on its control of the military and police |
| Free and Competitive Elections | |
| Rule of Law |
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