Chapter 1

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Collective goods

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Goods and services, such as clean air and clean water, that by their nature cannot be denied to anyone

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Government

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The institutions through which public polices are made for society

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Politics

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The process determining the leaders we select and the policies they pursue. Politics produces authoritative decisions about public issue.

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Political participation

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All the activities by which citizens attempt to influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue.

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Single-issue groups

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Groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance

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Policymaking system

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The process by which policy comes into being and evolves

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Linkage institutions

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Political channels through which people’s concern become political issues on the policy agenda

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Interest groups

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Strive to ensure that that their members’ concern receive appropriate political attention

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Policy Agenda

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The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people involved in politics at a point in time

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Political Issue

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An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it

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Policymaking institutions

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The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues

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Public policy

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A choice that government makes in response to a political issue

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Policy impacts

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The effects a policy has on people and problems

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Democracy

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A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public’s preference

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Majority Rule

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A fundamental principle of traditional democratic theory

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Minority Rights

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A principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities

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Representation

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A basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and many followers

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Pluralism

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A theory of of American democracy emphasizing that the policymaking process is very open to the participation of all groups with shared interests, with no single group usually dominating

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Elitism

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A theory of American democracy contending that an upper-class elite holds the power and makes policy, regardless of the formal governmental organization

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Hyperpluralism

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A theory of American democracy contending that groups are so strong that government, which gives into the many different groups, is thereby weakened

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Policy gridlock

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A condition that occurs when interest conflict and no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, so nothing gets done

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Political culture

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An overall set of values widely shared within a society

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Polarization

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An intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group

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Gross Domestic Product

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The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a year in a nation

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Thomas Jefferson

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Created first mass political party

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Andrew Jackson

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First to direct representative of common people

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Abraham Lincoln

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First to mobilize the nation for war

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Teddy Roosevelt

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First to mobilize the country behind national policy such as progressivism

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Woodrow Wilson

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First to take role as a world leader

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Franklin Roosevelt

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The first to attempt to manage the economy