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PS 103 test 1Factions - correct answer ✔Group of like-minded people who try to influence
the government. American government is set up to avoid domination by any
one of these groups.
Separation of powers - correct answer ✔The division of government power
across the judicial, executive, and legislative branches.
Checks and balances - correct answer ✔A system in which each branch of
government has some power over the others.
Federalism - correct answer ✔The division of power across the local, state,
and national levels of government.
Freedom rider problem - correct answer ✔The incentive to benefit from
others' work without making a contribution, which leads to individuals in a
collective action situation to refuse to work together.
Public goods - correct answer ✔Services or actions that once provided to
one person, become available to everyone.
Collective action problems - correct answer ✔Situations 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.
Government - correct answer ✔A system for implementing decisions made
through the political process.
, Free market - correct answer ✔An economic system based on competition
among businesses without government interference.
Economic individualism - correct answer ✔The autonomy of individuals to
manage their own financial decisions without government interference.
Culture wars - correct answer ✔Political conflict in the US between red state
Americans, who tend to have strong religious beliefs, and blue state
Americans who tend to be more secular.
Ideology - correct answer ✔A cohesive set of ideas and beliefs used to
organize and evaluate the political world.
Conservative - correct answer ✔One Side of the ideological spectrum
defined by support for lower taxes, a free market, more limited government,
generally associated with republicans.
Liberal - correct answer ✔One side of the ideological spectrum defined by
support for stronger government programs and more market regulation.
Articles of confederation - correct answer ✔Sent to the states for ratification
in 1777, these were the first attempts at a new government.
Republicanism - correct answer ✔As understood by James Madison, and the
framers, the belief that a form of government in which the interests of the
People are represented through elected leaders is the best form of
government.
Federalists - correct answer ✔Those at the constitution convention who
favored a strong national government and a system of separated powers.
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