You Are Politucal Vocabulary

Question 0

Civics

Answer 0

A branch of politics that focuses on the role of citizens and governments, and how citizens can get involved in the political process and take action on important issues. It also focuses on the rights and responsibilities citizens have.

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

The study of how groups of people- large or small- make decisions about how to live together and govern themselves.

Question 2

Influence

Answer 2

The power to change other people’s thinking or actions through argument, examples, or force of personality.

Question 3

Authority

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The official power given to someone to act on behalf of others. The power of authority often includes the power to enforce and punish through rules and laws.

Question 4

Compromise

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A way of settling differences in which each side gives something up, but both also benefit. Many different ideas and interests can be balanced in this way.

Question 5

Partisanship

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Giving strong, sometimes prejudiced support to a particular group or party.

Question 6

Political perspective

Answer 6

A political thinking concept that helps explain why people a group can hold different and even opposite points of view about the same issue, event, person, or policy and how these views affect their actions.