Poli 2051 Exam 1 Questions and
Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Government - ✔✔a formally established way of making and carrying out
political decisions
Politics - ✔✔the competition to shape the governments impact on societies
problems and goals / way which society solves conflicts
Social contract theory - ✔✔General agreement between the people and
government that they will follow rules as long as government doesn't
interfeer with natural rights
Purpose of Government - ✔✔Protecting life, rights & liberties, providing
public goods, and promoting equality.
Political Ideology - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect
society and which policies are desirable (in US liberals and conservatives)
Liberal - ✔✔okay with government involvement on economic issues, not on
social issues
conservative - ✔✔okay with government involvement on social issues not
on economic issues.
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, Populist - ✔✔okay with government involvement on both social and
economic issues.
Libertarian - ✔✔Not ok with government involvement on social or economic
issues.
Stages of Policy process - ✔✔Begins with people who have interests,
concern, and problems, which then leads to linkage process (elections) and
linkage process (political parties) that connect people to governmental
agenda -> government (congress, president, courts) and its policies -> then
impact people
pluralism - ✔✔a theory of american politics that holds that society's
interests are substantially represented through the activities of groups that,
in most policy decisions, government is chiefly responsive to the interest
group most directly affected by the policy.
Constitutionalism - ✔✔the idea that there are lawful limits on the power of
government
Free-Market system - ✔✔An economic system based on the idea that
government should interfere with economic transactions as little as
possible. Free enterprise and self-reliance are the collective and individual
principles that underpin free markets.
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Government - ✔✔a formally established way of making and carrying out
political decisions
Politics - ✔✔the competition to shape the governments impact on societies
problems and goals / way which society solves conflicts
Social contract theory - ✔✔General agreement between the people and
government that they will follow rules as long as government doesn't
interfeer with natural rights
Purpose of Government - ✔✔Protecting life, rights & liberties, providing
public goods, and promoting equality.
Political Ideology - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect
society and which policies are desirable (in US liberals and conservatives)
Liberal - ✔✔okay with government involvement on economic issues, not on
social issues
conservative - ✔✔okay with government involvement on social issues not
on economic issues.
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, Populist - ✔✔okay with government involvement on both social and
economic issues.
Libertarian - ✔✔Not ok with government involvement on social or economic
issues.
Stages of Policy process - ✔✔Begins with people who have interests,
concern, and problems, which then leads to linkage process (elections) and
linkage process (political parties) that connect people to governmental
agenda -> government (congress, president, courts) and its policies -> then
impact people
pluralism - ✔✔a theory of american politics that holds that society's
interests are substantially represented through the activities of groups that,
in most policy decisions, government is chiefly responsive to the interest
group most directly affected by the policy.
Constitutionalism - ✔✔the idea that there are lawful limits on the power of
government
Free-Market system - ✔✔An economic system based on the idea that
government should interfere with economic transactions as little as
possible. Free enterprise and self-reliance are the collective and individual
principles that underpin free markets.
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