You Are Politucal Vocabulary Flashcards
Civics
A branch of politics that focuses on the role of citizens and governments, and how citizens can get involved in the political process and take action on important issues. It also focuses on the rights and responsibilities citizens have.
Politics
The study of how groups of people- large or small- make decisions about how to live together and govern themselves.
Influence
The power to change other people’s thinking or actions through argument, examples, or force of personality.
Authority
The official power given to someone to act on behalf of others. The power of authority often includes the power to enforce and punish through rules and laws.
Compromise
A way of settling differences in which each side gives something up, but both also benefit. Many different ideas and interests can be balanced in this way.
Partisanship
Giving strong, sometimes prejudiced support to a particular group or party.
Political perspective
A political thinking concept that helps explain why people a group can hold different and even opposite points of view about the same issue, event, person, or policy and how these views affect their actions.