Chap 1

Question 1

What are we exploring in this class

Answer 1

Who governs and to what end they govern

Question 2

Politics is about who has _______

Answer 2

Power

Question 3

If you have power you have ______

Answer 3

Authority

Question 4

Things are legitimate because of the _______

Answer 4

Constitution

Question 5

Direct democracy

Answer 5

Citizens participate directly

Question 6

Representative democracy

Answer 6

Leaders make decisions

Question 7

Government is where _____ is made

Answer 7

Policy

Question 8

Public policy is

Answer 8

Choices the gov makes in response to an issue

Question 9

Why the scope of American government is small

Answer 9

Individualism

Question 10

________rule and ______ rights are most important to most people

Answer 10

Majority; Minority

Question 11

Elitism

Answer 11

Top leaders make decisions

Question 12

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 12

Social contract theory

Question 13

John Locke

Answer 13

Natural rights and PROPERTY

Question 14

Rousseau

Answer 14

Power from people

Question 15

Montesquieu

Answer 15

Checks and balances

Question 16

Appointed civil servants control the government without consulting the public

Answer 16

Bureaucratic

Question 17

Competition among affected interests shapes public policy decision making

Answer 17

Pluralist

Question 18

Too many groups get too much of what they want so there is a government policy that is often contradictory and lacking in direction

Answer 18

Hyperpluralist theory

Question 19

Who said: “the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the People’s vote.”

Answer 19

Schumpeter

Question 20

Republics?

Answer 20

Elected officials to represent the people

Question 21

Formal power

Answer 21

in CONSTITUTION

Question 22

The people have the last say

Answer 22

Popular sovereignty