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| 147539774 | agenda setting | Deciding what belongs on the political agenda. | |
| 147539775 | benefit | Any satisfaction that people believe they will derive if a policy is adopted. | |
| 147539776 | boycott | A concerted effort to get people to stop buying from a company in order to punish and to coerce a policy change. | |
| 147539777 | client politics | Political activity in which one group benefits at the expense of many other people. | |
| 147539778 | closed shop | A business that will not employ nonunion workers. | |
| 147539779 | cost | The perceived burden to be borne if a policy is adopted. | |
| 147539780 | cost argument | A situation in which people are more sensitive to what they might lose than to what they might gain. | |
| 147539781 | entrepreneurial politics | Political activity in which benefits are distributed, costs are concentrated. | |
| 147539782 | interest group politics | Political activity in which benefits are conferred on a distinct group and costs on another distinct group. | |
| 147539783 | logrolling | Mutual aid among politicians where one legislator supports another's pet project in return for the latter's support. | |
| 147539784 | majoritarian politics | Political activity in which both benefits and costs are widely distributed. | |
| 147539785 | policy entrepreneurs | People in and out of government who find ways of creating a legislative majority on behalf of interests no well represented in government. | |
| 147539786 | political agenda | A set of issues thought by the public or those in power to merit action by the government. | |
| 147539787 | pork barrel projects | Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in the hope of winning their votes. | |
| 147539788 | process regulation | Rules regulating manufacturing or industrial processes usually aimed at improving consumer or worker safety and reducing environmental damage. | |
| 147539789 | relative deprivation | A sense of being worse off than one thinks one ought to be. | |
| 147539790 | secondary boycott | A boycott by workers of a company other than the one against which the strike is directed. | |
| 147539791 | Sherman Anti-trust act | A law passed in 1890 making monopolies illegal. | |
| 151686341 | THree purposes of policy making | Solving a social problem, countering a threat, pursuing an objective. |
