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POLS 206 Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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POLS 206 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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Revolution ANS✔✔ fundamental regime and often social change
more rare than coute de tat
social revolutions ANS✔✔ most common is changing social system
- deals with power and wealth
-Cuban revolution example of this
- almost always strengthens state and creates authoritarian rule
political revolution ANS✔✔ the overthrow of one government and its
replacement with another
outcomes vary: democracy can happen
post communist revolutions in eastern Europe: less violence and shallower
deep political divisions
(1) What is government? ANS✔✔ -The institutions that make public policy
decisions for a society
-For us: Congress, the president, the courts, and federal administrative
agencies ("the bureaucracy")
Functions of ALL Governments ANS✔✔ 1. Maintain a National Defense
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2. Provide public goods and services
3. Preserve Order
4. Socialize the young
5. Collect Taxes
Collective goods ANS✔✔ If they exist, they, by nature, cannot be denied to
anyone and must be shared by everyone
Public Goods ANS✔✔ ie, College, medical care
-goods that can be provided to some without being provided to all.
(2) What is politics? ANS✔✔ -Harold Laswell "Who gets what, when, and
how"
-The process determining the leaders we select and the policies they
pursue.
-Produces authoritative decisions about public issues.
Political Participation ANS✔✔ All the activities by which citizens attempt to
influence the selection of political leaders and the policies they pursue.
-Voting is most common, but other means include contacting public officials,
protest, and civil disobedience
Single-issue groups ANS✔✔ -Groups with a narrow interest on which their
members take an uncompromising stand
(3) What is a policy-making system? ANS✔✔ The process by which policy
comes into being and evolves.
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1. Political Issues formed by the People.
2. Linkage Institutions transfer people's preferences to the policymakers
3. Policy Agenda shaped
4. Policy Agenda goes through policy-making institutions (Congress, the
president, and the courts, the "fourth" bureaucracy)
5. Implement the public policy
6. Impact people
Political issues ANS✔✔ Created by people's interests, problems, and
concerns which in turn shape policy, which impacts people and starts the
cycle again.
-an issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix
it.
Linkage Institutions ANS✔✔ Channels by which people's concerns become
political issues on policy agenda.
-elections, political parties, interest groups, the media.
(4) What is policy agenda? ANS✔✔ The issues that attract the serious
attentions of public officials and other people involved in politics at a point
in time.
-What politicians think is important
(5) What is public policy? ANS✔✔ -A choice that a government makes in
response to a political issue.
-A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem.
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