Poli 2051 Exam 1 Questions and
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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.
Critical thinking - ✔✔involves deciding what can reasonably be believed and then
using the info to reach a thoughtful conclusion.
Authoritarian government - ✔✔Suppresses individuality forcing people to think and
act in prescribed ways
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Answers 100% Pass
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.
Critical thinking - ✔✔involves deciding what can reasonably be believed and then
using the info to reach a thoughtful conclusion.
Authoritarian government - ✔✔Suppresses individuality forcing people to think and
act in prescribed ways
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