Key vocab terms from Magruder's American Government
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| conservative | believing in less government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and personal responsibility
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| government | institutions that create public policy
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| politics | who gets what, when, how, and why
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| public policy | the final actions taken by government in promotional, regulatory, or distributive form
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| pluralism | different groups all vying for control of the policy agenda
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| elite and class theory | economic stratum of society controlling the policy agenda
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| hyperpluralism | many interest groups vying for control resulting in government gridlock
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| liberal | believer in greater government intervention, higher taxes, and a smaller military
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| policy agenda | type of agenda resulting from the interaction of linkage institutions
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| linkage institutions | the means by which individuals can express public policy preferences
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| loose construction | liberal interpretation of the Constitution
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| strict construction | conservative interpretation of the Constitution
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| political parties | like-minded people who seek to win elections and therefore set public policy
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| representative democracy | government that relies on the consent of the people to operate
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