Chapter 2 Terms

Question 1

Puts government power in the hands of an elite

Answer 1

Oligarchy

Question 2

Rule by the people

Answer 2

Democracy

Question 3

All members of the group, rather then representatives they elect to govern on their behalf, meet to make decisions

Answer 3

Participatory democracy

Question 4

A system in which citizens participate in government by electing public officials to make decisions on their behalf

Answer 4

Representative democracy

Question 5

The idea that all citizens are entitled to certain things that cannot be denied by the majority

Answer 5

Minority rights

Question 6

Relies on our intuitive, elemental notion of what is fair. It interprets government by the people to mean government by the majority of people

Answer 6

The majoritarian model of democracy

Question 7

An organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy

Answer 7

Interest group

Question 8

And interpretation of democracy in which government by the people is taken to mean government by people operating through competing interest groups

Answer 8

Pluralist model of democracy

Question 9

The view that a small group of people actually makes most of the important government decisions

Answer 9

Elite theory

Question 10

One individual has the power to make all important decisions

Answer 10

Autocracy