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| 14645853985 | Government | The institutions through which public policies are made for a society. | 0 | |
| 14645853986 | Politics | The process determining the leaders we select and the policies they pursue. | 1 | |
| 14645854007 | The Policymaking System | The process by which policy comes into being and evolves. 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 |
| 14645853987 | Linkage Institutions | Political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. (political parties, elections, interest groups, the media, etc.) | 3 | |
| 14645853988 | Policy Agenda | Several issues that capture the serious attention of political officials and other figures in politics at a given time. | 4 | |
| 14645853989 | Collective Goods | Goods and services, such as clean water, that by nature cannot be denied to anyone. | 5 | |
| 14645853991 | Political Culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society | 6 | |
| 14645853992 | Single-Issue Groups | Groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance. | 7 | |
| 14645853993 | Democracy | A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the *public's* preferences. | 8 | |
| 14645853995 | Pluralism | Democratic theory that states that the government is comprised of several different groups that compete to reach compromise, no one group dominating another. | 9 | |
| 14645853996 | Elitism | Democratic theory that states that society is divided by class lines, with the upper class elite in power (Policies benefit those with money/power) | 10 | |
| 14645853997 | Hyperpluralism | Democratic theory that states that he government is comprised of several groups, all of which are too strong, which leads to muddled policy and gridlock --- the government suffers because of groups | 11 | |
| 14645854000 | Political Participation | All the activities by which citizens attempt to influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue. | 12 | |
| 14645854001 | Political Issue | an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it. | 13 | |
| 14645854002 | Policymaking institutions | The branches of Government charges with taking action on political issues. | 14 | |
| 14645854003 | Public Policy | A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A course of action taken with regard to a problem. | 15 | |
| 14645854004 | Policy Impacts | The effects a policy has on people and problems. | 16 | |
| 14645854005 | Policy Gridlock | A condition that occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is strong to form a policy, so nothing gets done. | 17 | |
| 14645854006 | GDP Gross Domestic Product | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a year in a nation. | 18 | |
| 14645859956 | Majority Rule | A fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory. In a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires that the majority's desire be respected. | 19 | |
| 14645863205 | minority rights | A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities. | 20 | |
| 14645864869 | representation | A basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers. | 21 |
