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| the institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society. | ||
| goods such as clean air and clean water that everyone must share. | ||
| -the process by which we select our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue. - it produces authoritative decisions about public issues. | ||
| all the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. the most common, but not the only, means of political participation in a democracy is voting. Other means: protest and civil disobedience. | ||
| groups that have a narrow interest, then do dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics. | ||
| the process by which political problems are communicated by the voters and acted upon by government policymakers. this system begins with people's needs and expectations for governmental action. when people confront governmental officials with problems that they want solved, they are trying to influence the government's policy agenda. | ||
| the channels or access points through which issues and people's policy preferences get on the government's policy agenda. in the US, elections, political parties, interest groups, and the mass media are the main _________ _______________. | ||
| the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actually involve in politics at any given point. | ||
| an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and a public policy choice. | ||
| the branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. The US Constitution established three of these - the Congress, the presidency, and the courts. Today, the power of bureaucracy is so great that most political scientists consider it a fourth policymaking constitution. | ||
| a choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem. | ||
| a system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences. | ||
| a fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory. in a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires that the majority's desire be respected. | ||
| a principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities and allows that they might join majorities through persuasion and reasoned argument. | ||
| a basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers. | ||
| a theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. | ||
| 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. | ||
| a theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. | ||
| a condition that occurs when no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy. the result is that nothing may get done. | ||
| the sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation. | ||
| the belief that individuals should be left on their own by the government - one of the primary reasons for the comparatively small scope of American government is the prominence of this belief in American political thought and practice. |
