Government
The institutions through which public policies are made.
What is government?
Form of government used in the U.S
What is a democracy?
Process by which government responds to the priorities of its people.
What is the policy making system?
a system of selecting policymakers.
What is democracy?
Little to no government involvement?
What is Laissez-Faire?
Goods and services, such as clean air and clean water, that by their nature cannot be denied.
What are collective goods?
Determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue.
What is politics?
The issues that attract the most serious attention of public officials and other people involved in politics.
What is policy agenda?
In a democracy choosing among alternatives require that the majority's desire be respected.
What majority rule?
Who is the Democratic nominee for the 2020 Presidential Election?
Who is Joe Biden?
When a government protect its national sovereignty, usually by maintaining armed forces.
What is maintaining a national defense?
Activities by which citizens attempt to influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue.
What is political participation?
Every decision that government makes every law it passes, budget it establishes and ruling it hands down.
What is public policy?
principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers.
What is representation?
When people do not show up to vote on election day?
What is low turnout?
Money collected by the government to pay for public goods and services government provide.
What are taxes?
Most common form of political participation.
What is voting?
Issues arise when people disagree about a problem and hot to fix it.
What is political issue?
What is Pluralism?
Group least likely to vote?
What is young people?
When a controlling party loses an election and accepts the legitimacy of the election.
What is peaceful transfer of power?
Pro-life and pro-choice groups are examples of what kind of political participation?
What are single-issue groups?
The effects a policy has on people and problems.
What is policy impacts?
A theory of American democracy contending that an upper-class holds the power.
What is elitism?
Two theories that dominate American political culture?
What are liberty and individualism?