POS 2041 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-5) Questions And Answers With Verified Tests 100% Correct Answers
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POS 2041
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POS 2041
Policymaking System - ️️Process by which policies are made
Linkage Institutions - ️️Elections, political parties, interest groups, and media
Policy Agenda - ️️Issues that attract the serious attention of public officials
Political Issues - ️️Issues that arrives with disagreement
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POS 2041 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-5)
Policymaking System - ✔️✔️Process by which policies are made
Linkage Institutions - ✔️✔️Elections, political parties, interest groups, and media
Policy Agenda - ✔️✔️Issues that attract the serious attention of public officials
Political Issues - ✔️✔️Issues that arrives with disagreement
Policymaking Institutions - ✔️✔️Branches of Government charged with taking action on
political issues (Congress, Courts, President)
Government - ✔️✔️Institutions through which public policies are made for a society
Collective Goods - ✔️✔️Goods and services that cannot be denied to people (Air and
water)
Hyperpluralism - ✔️✔️Democracy theory that groups are so strong, government gives
into many groups and is weakened
Policy Gridlock - ✔️✔️Interests conflict and no one group can form a majority, so no
policy is made
Political Culture - ✔️✔️Overall set of values widely shared within a society
Gross Domestic Product - ✔️✔️Sum total of the value of all the goods and services
produced in a year in the nation
Single-Issue Groups - ✔️✔️Narrow interest, members tend to take an uncompromising
stance
Policies - ✔️✔️Determining leaders to produce authoritative decisions about public
issues
Political Participation - ✔️✔️All the activities by which citizens attempt to influence the
selection of political leaders
Public Policy - ✔️✔️Course of action taken with regard to some problem
Pluralism - ✔️✔️All groups with shared interests, no single group dominates
, Elitism - ✔️✔️Democracy theory that an upper class elite holds powers and makes
policies
Constitution - ✔️✔️A nation's basic laws
Declaration of Independance - ✔️✔️American Colonies approved 1776 grievances
against British Monarch and declared Independence
Natural Rights - ✔️✔️Life, liberty, and property. Rights inherited in human beings, not
by Government
Consent of the Governed - ✔️✔️Government derives authority from people
Limited Government - ✔️✔️Certain restrictions should be placed on Government to
protect natural rights of citizens
Articles of Confederation - ✔️✔️1st Constitution, congress in 1777. Continental
Congress as a national legislature
Shaye's Rebellion - ✔️✔️Attacks on Courthouses by farmers to block foreclosure
proceedings (Lead by Daniel Shaye)
U.S. Constitution - ✔️✔️Sets forth the institutional structure of U.S. Government
(Replaced Articles of Confederation 1787)
Factions - ✔️✔️Groups that arise from the unequal distribution of property or wealth
can cause instability in the Government
New Jersey Plan - ✔️✔️Equal representation of each state, regardless of the size
Virginia Plan - ✔️✔️Each state in Congress to be proportional to its population
Connecticut Compromise - ✔️✔️Created House of Representatives (population) and
Senate to have equal representation
Writ of Habeas Corpus - ✔️✔️Court order requiring authorities to explain to a judge
lawful reason for holding a prisoner in custody
Separation of Powers - ✔️✔️Executive, Legislature, and Judicial must be separate of
each other so no one controls the other
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