Chapter 1

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first persons intention

Question 2

Authority

Answer 2

The right to use power

Question 3

Direct/Participatory Democracy

Answer 3

All or most citizens participates directly

Question 4

Representative Democracy

Answer 4

Leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote

Question 5

Elite View

Answer 5

Persons who posses a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money

Question 6

Class View

Answer 6

Government dominated by capitalists

Question 7

Power Elite View

Answer 7

Government is dominated by a few top leaders, most are outside of the government

Question 8

Bureaucratic View

Answer 8

Government dominated by appointed officials

Question 9

Political agenda

Answer 9

Issues that people believe require government action

Question 10

Majoritarian Politics

Answer 10

Almost everybody benefits and pays

Question 11

Interest Group Politics

Answer 11

One small group benefits and another small group pays

Question 12

Client Politics

Answer 12

One small group benefits and almost everybody pays

Question 13

Entrepreneurial Politics

Answer 13

Almost everybody benefits and a small group pays

Question 14

Issue

Answer 14

Defined as a conflict, real or apparent, between the interests, ideas, or beliefs of different citizens

Question 15

Legitimacy

Answer 15

Political authority conferred by law or by a state or natural constitution

Question 16

Pluralist View

Answer 16

Competition among all affected interest shapes public policy

Question 17

Politics

Answer 17

Is the activity by which an issue is agitated or settled

Question 18

Creedal Passion View

Answer 18

Morally impassioned elites drive important political changes

Question 19

Cost

Answer 19

A burden that people believes they must bear if a policy is adopted

Question 20

Benefit

Answer 20

Satisfaction that people believe they will enjoy if a policy is adopted

Question 21

Pork Barrel Legislation

Answer 21

When legislation gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts of states in the hope of winning their votes in return

Question 22

Log rolling

Answer 22

Legislator that supports a proposal favored by another in return for his or hers

Question 23

Political Entrepreneurs

Answer 23

Activists in or out of government who pull together a political majority on behalf of unorganized interests

Question 24

Democracy

Answer 24

The rule of many