AP Government Chapter 17 Flashcards
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| 6193972067 | political agenda | Issues that people believe require governmental action | 0 | |
| 6193972068 | cost | A burden that people believe they must bear if a policy is enacted | 1 | |
| 6193972069 | benefit | A satisfaction that people believe they will enjoy if the policy is adopted | 2 | |
| 6193972070 | majoritarian politics | A policy in which almost everybody benefits and almost everybody pays | 3 | |
| 6193972071 | interest group politics | A policy in which one small group benefits and another small group pays | 4 | |
| 6193972072 | client politics | A policy in which one small group benefits and almost everybody pays | 5 | |
| 6193972073 | pork-barrel legislation | Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return | 6 | |
| 6193972074 | logrolling | A legislator supports the proposal favored by another in return for support of his or hers | 7 | |
| 6193972075 | entrepreneurial politics | A policy in which almost everybody benefits and a small group pays the cost | 8 | |
| 6193972076 | policy entrepreneurs | Activists in or out of government who pull together a political majority on behalf of unorganized interests | 9 | |
| 6193972077 | process regulation | Rules governing commercial activities designed to improve consumer, worker, or environmental conditions. Also called social regulation. | 10 | |
| 6193980689 | agenda setting | Deciding what belongs on the political agenda. | 11 | |
| 6193989613 | closed shop | a business that will not employ non-union workers | 12 | |
| 6194000623 | cost argument | A situation in which people are more sensitive to what they might lose than to what they might gain. | 13 | |
| 6194020813 | DO NOT CALL LAW | Example of legislation pioneered in the states and replicated by the federal government | 14 | |
| 6194037065 | Gerald Ford | President who noted the government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to to take away everything you have. | 15 | |
| 6194070761 | The Grange | An organization of farmers especially outspoken in its criticism of large corporations. | 16 | |
| 6194093267 | Professionalism of Reform | A situation in which government bureaucracy thinks up problems for government to solve. | 17 | |
| 6194102549 | Deregulation | A movement made by recent presidential administrations to lesson the federal government's oversight of several key industries such as the airlines and trucking and others | 18 | |
| 6194122667 | Theodore Roosevelt | President who persuaded Congress to fund five full time lawyers to prosecute antitrust violations. | 19 | |
| 6194128449 | Secondary boycott | A boycott by workers of a company other than the one against which the strike is directed. | 20 | |
| 6194136042 | Sherman Antitrust Act | A law passed in 1890 making monopolies illegal. | 21 | |
| 6194141162 | Superfund | Intended to force industries to clean up their own toxic wastes, ( a good illustration of entrepreneurial politics) | 22 | |
| 6194153400 | Relative deprivation | A sense of being worse off than one thinks one ought to be | 23 | |
| 6194164132 | Boycott | A concerted effort to get people to stop buying from a company in order to punish and/or to coerce a policy change | 24 |