Ap Flashcards

14951431793	Government	The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies	0
14951431794	Factions	Political groups that agree on objectives and policies; the origins of political parties.	1
14951431795	seperation of powers	dividing the powers of government among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches	2
14951431796	Checks and Balances	A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power	3
14951431797	Federalism	A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments	4
14951431798	Public goods	Goods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share.	5
14951431799	Collective action problem	A situation in which the members of a group would benefit by working together to produce some outcome, but each individual is better off refusing to cooperate and reaping benefits from those who do the work.	6
14951431800	Free rider problems	The incentive to benefit from others' work without making a contribution, which leads individuals in a collective action situation to refuse to work together.	7
14951431801	Politics	Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how)	8
14951431802	Free market	An economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.	9
14951431803	Redistributive tax policies	policies, generally favored by Democratic politicians, that use taxation to attempt to create greater social equality	10
14951431804	Culture wars	clashes within mainstream society over the values and norms that should be upheld	11
14951431805	Ideology	a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.	12
14951431806	Libertarians	Those who are opposed to using government to promote either order or equality.	13
14951431807	Representative Democracy	A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people.	14
14951431808	pluralist democracy	a theory of democracy that holds that citizen membership in groups is the key to political power	15
14951431809	Elitist Democracy	A democratic government in which some citizens (such as wealthy, better educated, or certain social groups) have disproportionate influence over government policy.	16
14951431810	Liberty	freedom	17
14951850264	participatory democracy	a system of government where rank-and-file citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf	18