Chp 1 Flashcards
What are the institutions that make authoritative decisions in any given society known as?
Government
What are goods that everyone must share?
Public goods
What do you call the process by which we select our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue.
Politics
What are all the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue?
Political Participation.
What are groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics?
Single-issue groups.
What is the process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time?
Policymaking system
What are the political channels through which people’s concerns become political issues on the policy agenda?
Linkage institutions
Why are the issues that attract serious attention of public officials and other people actually involved in politics and any point in time?
Policy agenda
What is an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it?
Political issue
What are the branches of gov charged with taking action on political issues?
Policymaking institutions
What is a choice that government makes in response to a political issue?
Public policy
What is a system of selecting policy makers and of organizing gov. so that policy represents and responds to the publics preferences?
Democracy
What is the fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory?
Majority rule
What is a principle of TDT that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities?
Minority rights.
What is a basic principle of TDT that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers?
Representation
