Chapter 1: Should We Care about Politics

Question 1

Democracy

Answer 1

government created by the people

Question 2

Direct Democracy

Answer 2

democracy without representation, where each eligible individual participates in decision making

Question 3

Representative Democracy:

Answer 3

eligible individuals choose others to make decisions on their behalf

Question 4

Republic

Answer 4

selection of representatives who make decisions on behalf of those who select them.

Question 5

Direct vs Representative Democracy

Answer 5

a representative democracy is far more practical for national as large as the US but it is more complex and can be controversial because strong differences of opinion about what representative should do it in our name.

Question 6

Authority

Answer 6

holding an office like president or member of Congress

Question 7

Legitimacy Vs Authority

Answer 7

Americans respect authority of elected representatives to act in an official capacity by virtue of holding a office and grant legitimacy to elected officials although they disagree with them.Unlike Authority, Legitimacy is partly earned.

Question 8

Legitimacy

Answer 8

widespread public acceptance of the official standing of a political figure or institutions

Question 9

Power

Answer 9

ability to make others act in a way that they otherwise might not have done

Question 10

Resources

Answer 10

anything of value to others that can be used to sway another individual

Question 11

Politics

Answer 11

process of determining who gets what, when, and how

Question 12

Elitism

Answer 12

believe that the actions of regular citizens like voting and jointing groups, simply mask the real power exercised by elites.

Question 13

Pluralism

Answer 13

assuring that gov. Is responsive to a wide range of voices. People believe wide distribution of resources in society drives the decisions government officials make.

Question 14

Empirical

Answer 14

statement based on the assessment of data or the analysis of information, without regard to value judgements

Question 15

Normative

Answer 15

invokes a judgement or evaluation

Question 16

Legitimacy and Authority related to Power

Answer 16

Elected officials can use authority and legitimacy to exercise power.

Power is about getting others to act the way you want them to,even if they prefer to act otherwise in order to determine who gets what, when, and how.

Question 17

Political Resources: Tools of Power

Answer 17

Resources which encompass a wide range of things such as politicians personal charm, Info supplied to members of congress by lobbyist or promise of campaign money

Question 18

Elitism and Pluralism: Resources distributed in Society.

Answer 18

Those in Elitism believe elected elite of corporate holds resources that mattering government decisions making

and those in Pluralism believe that ordinary individuals can exercise power in republic because resources matter to people in government are widely distributed in society.

Question 19

Equality of opportunity:

Answer 19

values giving people comparable advantages for succeeding in life, regardless of the unequal outcomes that may result.

Question 20

Political equality

Answer 20

est. political and legal rights on the basis of the individual, so everyone has same right to vote and equal under the law

Question 21

Equality of outcome

Answer 21

:leveling social and economic inequalities among people rather then attempting to give people comparable advantages for succeeding in life

Question 22

Economic equality

Answer 22

government policy to minimize the economic disperses found in society

Question 23

Social Equality

Answer 23

government policy to minimize social class distinctions found in society

Question 24

Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome

Answer 24

Equality of Opportunity comes at expense of outcome and eproduces economic and social disparities in name of protecting individual initiative. Equal Opportunity promotes the same right to vote and equal rights under the law.

Question 25

Political,Opportunity, Economic,Social And Outcome Equality

Answer 25

Don’t have equality of opportunity or Outcome in America.Although we support gov. actions that promote the former.Equal opportunity breaks down in unequal economic and social outcomes of women, racial and ethnic group. Unequal outcomes should be a product of our talents,intersts not our physical or ethic differences

Question 26

Liberty

Answer 26

ability to pursue your ends and objectives, tempered by socially defined boundaries and limited government impediments

Question 27

Trade-offs between Liberty and Equality of Outcome

Answer 27

Liberty supplies the freedom to make individual choices. Liberty is bounded by social responsibility or concern for rights of others in society.Important trade-offs made between Liberty and Outcome which is ability to pursue objectives defined by boundaries and limited government impediments

Question 28

Social responsibility

Answer 28

protection of the rights of individuals in a community or society, at expense of some degree of personal liberty

Question 29

Liberty and Social Responsibility

Answer 29

Government draws the boundaries that determine where individual liberty stops and needs of society starts. But we wont all draw the line in the same place which can lead to political disputes over whether government should create these boundaries or leaves matters of social responsibility to individuals.

Question 30

Disenfranchised

Answer 30

losing or being denied the legal right to vote by intentional or unintentional means