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6193972067political agendaIssues that people believe require governmental action0
6193972068costA burden that people believe they must bear if a policy is enacted1
6193972069benefitA satisfaction that people believe they will enjoy if the policy is adopted2
6193972070majoritarian politicsA policy in which almost everybody benefits and almost everybody pays3
6193972071interest group politicsA policy in which one small group benefits and another small group pays4
6193972072client politicsA policy in which one small group benefits and almost everybody pays5
6193972073pork-barrel legislationLegislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return6
6193972074logrollingA legislator supports the proposal favored by another in return for support of his or hers7
6193972075entrepreneurial politicsA policy in which almost everybody benefits and a small group pays the cost8
6193972076policy entrepreneursActivists in or out of government who pull together a political majority on behalf of unorganized interests9
6193972077process regulationRules governing commercial activities designed to improve consumer, worker, or environmental conditions. Also called social regulation.10
6193980689agenda settingDeciding what belongs on the political agenda.11
6193989613closed shopa business that will not employ non-union workers12
6194000623cost argumentA situation in which people are more sensitive to what they might lose than to what they might gain.13
6194020813DO NOT CALL LAWExample of legislation pioneered in the states and replicated by the federal government14
6194037065Gerald FordPresident who noted the government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to to take away everything you have.15
6194070761The GrangeAn organization of farmers especially outspoken in its criticism of large corporations.16
6194093267Professionalism of ReformA situation in which government bureaucracy thinks up problems for government to solve.17
6194102549DeregulationA movement made by recent presidential administrations to lesson the federal government's oversight of several key industries such as the airlines and trucking and others18
6194122667Theodore RooseveltPresident who persuaded Congress to fund five full time lawyers to prosecute antitrust violations.19
6194128449Secondary boycottA boycott by workers of a company other than the one against which the strike is directed.20
6194136042Sherman Antitrust ActA law passed in 1890 making monopolies illegal.21
6194141162SuperfundIntended to force industries to clean up their own toxic wastes, ( a good illustration of entrepreneurial politics)22
6194153400Relative deprivationA sense of being worse off than one thinks one ought to be23
6194164132BoycottA concerted effort to get people to stop buying from a company in order to punish and/or to coerce a policy change24

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