Terms #1
The belief that each person should have an equal chance at success and that no person should be limited by circumstances outside of her control.
What is Equality of Opportunity?
Formal or informal groups of people who share similar characteristics and a common sense of identity.
What are Social Groups?
The general plan followed by a nation in defending and advancing its national interests, especially its security against foreign threats.
What is Foreign Policy?
The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
What is American Dream?
An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production, distribution, and pricing of goods and services.
What is Capitalism?
The ability of individual people and businesses to make money with minimal interference by the government.
What is Free Enterprise?
The combined set of political attitudes held by individuals within the same culture.
What is Political Culture?
What is Public Policy?
The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
What are Natural Rights?
An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
What is Socialism?
A social and political philosophy that promotes individual well-being over the well-being of society as a whole.
What is Individualism?
The attitudes people hold about the role of government and the specific programs and policies that their government should implement.
What are Political Attitudes?
The term given to government policies, actions, programmes, or initiatives that are intended to address and improve social problems.
What is Social Policy?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
What is Conservatism?
The notion that everyone within a country, including government officials, are subject to its laws.
What is Rule of Law?
The organization of Democrats within the House and Senate that meets to discuss and debate the parties positions on various issues in order to reach a consensus and to assign leadership positions.
What is Caucus? :)
Generational effects?
What is Economic Policy?
Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
What is Majority Rule?
A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
What is Liberalism?
The belief that political officials and institutions should have significant constraints on their power.
What is Limited Government?
Know how age, gender, race, religion, etc. can affect political alignment
What are Political Typology?
The public policy dealing with the consumption and protection of natural resources
What is Environment and Energy Policy?
The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population.
What is Public Opinion?
An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life.
What is Libertarianism?