Chapter 1

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

Activity by which an issue is agitated or settled

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intentions

Question 3

Authority

Answer 3

Right to use power

Question 4

Legitimacy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Democracy

Answer 5

The rule of the many

Question 6

Direct or participatory democracy

Answer 6

Government in which all or most citizens participate directly

Question 7

Representative democracy

Answer 7

Government in which makes leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote

Question 8

Elite

Answer 8

Persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money, prestige, or expertise

Question 9

Class view

Answer 9

View that the government is dominated by capitalists

Question 10

Power elite view

Answer 10

View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government

Question 11

Bureaucratic view

Answer 11

View that the government is dominated by appointed officials

Question 12

Pluralist view

Answer 12

View that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy

Question 13

Credal passion view

Answer 13

View that morally impassioned elites drive important political changes

Question 14

Political agenda

Answer 14

Issues that people believe require governmental action

Question 15

Cost

Answer 15

Burden that people believe they must bear if a policy is adopted

Question 16

Benefit

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Majoritarian politics

Answer 17

Policy in which almost everybody benefits and almost everybody pays

Question 18

Interest group politics

Answer 18

Policy in which one small group benefits and another small group pays

Question 19

Client politics

Answer 19

Policy in which one small group benefits and almost everybody pays

Question 20

Pork-barrel legislation

Answer 20

Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constitute in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return

Question 21

Log-rolling

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Entrepreneurial politics

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Issue

Answer 23

Conflict, real or apparent, between the interests, ideas, or beliefs of different citizens