Fraser AP Government Chapter 15

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.