Government Basics
This is how society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals for all citizens.
What is Government?
This is political philosophy may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people.
What is Elitism?
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What is Public Good?
This is a compromise that involves giving something up in return for getting something else.
What is a Trade-Off?
A political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
What is Totalitarianism (dictatorship)?
This is the process by which choices are made regarding how resources will be allocated and which economic and social policies government will pursue.
What are Politics?
Established Beliefs and ideals that help shape political opinion and eventually public policy.
What is an Ideology?
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A product or service that can be purchased and consumed by an individual or entity.
What is a Public Good?
Government where people can participate in making government decisions.
What is a Direct Democracy?
The protection of a country's citizens, economy, and institutions from threats.
What is National Security?
This political philosophy recognizes diversity within a political body and supports a peaceful coexistence of different interests and lifestyles.
What is Pluralism?
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What is Private Good?
A service or commodity that is available to everyone in a community without restriction.
What is a Public Good?
Government in which a small group of elite people hold all the political power.
What is an Oligarchy?
The rights of people to act and express themselves freely, without undue government interference.
What are Individual Liberties?
The tendency to identify with and support a particular political party.
What is Partisanship?
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What is Common Good?
Things that benefit society and can be accessed by everyone.
What are Common Goods?
Government in which the citizens do not govern directly.
What is a Representative Democracy?
This is the social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
What is Individualism?
People with ____________ preferences tend to become more engaged in politics and more likely to donate time and money to campaigns to attend political rallies.
What is Intense?
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What is a Toll Good?
Goods that are non-rivalrous but excludable (meaning that they can be consumed by multiple people but access can be limited).
What are Toll Goods?
A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
What is Socialism?
This is a philosophical perspective that emphasizes equality and equal treatment across gender, religion, economic status and political beliefs.
What is Egalitarianism?
What type of preferences are beliefs people are not deeply committed and may change over time?
What is Latent?
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What is a Trade-Off?
Intangible Goods.
What are services?
A form of government where a single person, usually a king or queen, has complete power over a state.
What is a Monarchy?