AP Gov 1
The process of influencing the actions and policies of government.
What is politics?
The set of beliefs, customs, traditions, and values that Americans share.
What is American Political Culture?
Social, political, and economic freedoms.
What is Liberty?
A democratic system with elected representatives in which the Constitution is the supreme law.
What is the Constitutional Republic?
A Greek word meaning City State where citizens agree on certain rules and customs.
What is polis?
The rules and institutions that make up the system of policymaking.
What is government?
The idea that the government's 'right' to rule comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Independent associations outside the government's control.
What are Civil Society Groups?
The right to use power.
What is authority?
Rights that cannot be taken away by the government?
What makes inalienable rights inalienable?
A system of government where power is held by the people.
What is democracy?
A system in which the government's authority comes from the people.
What is republicanism?
A theory of democracy that emphasizes the role of groups in the policymaking process.
What is the Pluralist Theory?
The capacity of an individual to influence the conduct (behavior) of others.
What is Power?
When an issue is too complicated or technical for most citizens to understand.
What circumstances would majoritarian politics normally NOT be effective?
The right to life, liberty, and property, which government cannot take away.
What are natural rights?
Rights the government cannot take away.
What are Inalienable Rights?
A theory of democracy that the elites have a disproportionate amount of influence in the policymaking process.
What is the Elitist Theory?
Allows citizens to make decisions about public policy issues, usually through direct voting on those issues.
What is direct democracy?
Marxists claim that, in modern society, the two major classes contending for power are the capitalists and _______.
Who are the workers?
People allow their governments to rule over them to ensure orderly and functioning society.
What is the social contract?
A theory that widespread political participation is essential for democratic government.
What is Participatory Democracy?
The structure of government, including the executive, legislature, and judiciary.
What are Political Institutions?
Allows citizens to choose officials (representatives) to make decisions about public policy.
What is indirect democracy?
The United States operate in this system of government where the people choose officials (representatives) to make decisions about public policy.
What is indirect democracy?