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| 14951431793 | Government | The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies | 0 | |
| 14951431794 | Factions | Political groups that agree on objectives and policies; the origins of political parties. | 1 | |
| 14951431795 | seperation of powers | dividing the powers of government among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches | 2 | |
| 14951431796 | Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power | 3 | |
| 14951431797 | Federalism | A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments | 4 | |
| 14951431798 | Public goods | Goods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share. | 5 | |
| 14951431799 | Collective action problem | A situation in which the members of a group would benefit by working together to produce some outcome, but each individual is better off refusing to cooperate and reaping benefits from those who do the work. | 6 | |
| 14951431800 | Free rider problems | The incentive to benefit from others' work without making a contribution, which leads individuals in a collective action situation to refuse to work together. | 7 | |
| 14951431801 | Politics | Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how) | 8 | |
| 14951431802 | Free market | An economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. | 9 | |
| 14951431803 | Redistributive tax policies | policies, generally favored by Democratic politicians, that use taxation to attempt to create greater social equality | 10 | |
| 14951431804 | Culture wars | clashes within mainstream society over the values and norms that should be upheld | 11 | |
| 14951431805 | Ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 12 | |
| 14951431806 | Libertarians | Those who are opposed to using government to promote either order or equality. | 13 | |
| 14951431807 | Representative Democracy | A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people. | 14 | |
| 14951431808 | pluralist democracy | a theory of democracy that holds that citizen membership in groups is the key to political power | 15 | |
| 14951431809 | Elitist Democracy | A democratic government in which some citizens (such as wealthy, better educated, or certain social groups) have disproportionate influence over government policy. | 16 | |
| 14951431810 | Liberty | freedom | 17 | |
| 14951850264 | participatory democracy | a system of government where rank-and-file citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf | 18 |
