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| 14846498768 | Political Participation | All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue | 0 | |
| 14846501937 | Single-issue groups | Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics. | 1 | |
| 14846504038 | Policymaking Systems | The process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time. People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues for government policymakers. These issues shape policy, which in turn impacts people, generating more interests, problems, and concerns. | 2 | |
| 14846504039 | Linkage institutions | The channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the government's policy agenda. Includes elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media. | 3 | |
| 14846507514 | policymaking institutions | the branches of government charged with taking action on political issues | 4 | |
| 14846509309 | public policy | A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem. | 5 | |
| 14846512975 | majority rule | In a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires that the majority's desire be respected. | 6 | |
| 14846512976 | minority rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities. | 7 | |
| 14846515547 | pluralist theory | A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. | 8 | |
| 14846517142 | elite and class theory | A theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule, regardless of the formal niceties of governmental organization. | 9 | |
| 14846517143 | hyper pluralism | a theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened | 10 | |
| 14846520916 | policy gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, so nothing gets done. | 11 |
