Political Science Chapters 1-6 (2023/2024) Graded A+

Political Science Chapters 1-6 (2023/2024) Graded A+ authoritarian government a political system in which one person or group has absolute control over the apparatus of government, and in which popular input in government is minimal or nonexistent public goods goods and services that are enjoyed by all citizens and unlikely to be provided by any organization other than government politics individual and collective efforts to influence the workings of government democracy a form of gov't in which the people rule; can take place directly, through participation by the people in actual lawmaking, or indirectly through free elections in which the people choose representatives to make laws on their behalf autocracy a form of gov't in which a single person rules with effectively unlimited power direct democracy a form of democracy in which the people themselves make the laws and set the policies adopted by the gov't representative democracy a form of democracy in which the people, through free elections, select representatives to make laws on their behalf and set policies adopted by the gov't constitutional democracy a form of democracy in which there is a foundational document (U.S. Const.) that describes the structure, powers, and limits of gov't presidential system a political system in which the head of the executive branch is selected by some form of popular vote and serves a fixed term of office parliamentary system a political system in which the head of the executive branch is selected by members of the legislature rather than by popular vote political culture the values and beliefs of citizens toward the political system and toward themselves as actors in it casual question a question regarding the factors responsible for a particular outcome correlation a relationship between the factors such that change in one is accompanied by change in the other causation a relationship between variables such that change in the value of one is directly responsible for change in the value of other spurious relationship a relationship between variables that reflects correlation but not causation American creed the dominant political culture in the U.S., marked by a set of beliefs in individualism, democracy, liberty, property, and religion, tied together by the value of equality liberty the belief that gov't should leave people free to do as they please and exercise their natural rights to the maximum extent possible property rights the belief that people should be able to acquire, own, and use goods and assets free from gov't constraints, as long as their acquisition and use does not interfere with the rights of other individuals