PLS 101 Exam 1
Politics - correct answer ✔✔process of determining who gets what, when, and how in a society
Conflict over leadership, structure, adn policies of government
Government - correct answer ✔✔A group of individuals or an institution that make society's rules that
also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules
Power - correct answer ✔✔The ability to influence the behavior of others
Authority - correct answer ✔✔Power that comes from the formal organizational hierarchy
Public Goods - correct answer ✔✔Those everyone needs but no one has the incentive to provide them
adequately
Political efficacy - correct answer ✔✔The ability to influence government and politics
Monarchy (autocracy) - correct answer ✔✔A single individual rules
Aristocracy (Oligarchy) - correct answer ✔✔A small group of people (landowners, military officers, the
wealthy) controls most of the governing decisions
Democracy (polity) - correct answer ✔✔Citizens play a significant part in the government process,
usually through election of public officials
Direct Democracy - correct answer ✔✔People vote on everything - NOT representatives
, Indirect Democracy - correct answer ✔✔Representative democracy (republic) representatives are
elected
Referendum - correct answer ✔✔A procedure whereby the public directly vote on an issue
Initiative - correct answer ✔✔A procedure whereby citizens propose an issue to the state electoral for
popular vote
Constitutional Government - correct answer ✔✔A system where limits are placed on the powers of
government
Authoritarian government - correct answer ✔✔Government has no formal limits bu may be restrained
by the power of other social institutions
Totalitarian government - correct answer ✔✔Government has no formal limits and seeks to absorb or
eliminate other social institutions that might challenge it
Pluralism - correct answer ✔✔All interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the
government
Political culture - correct answer ✔✔broadly shared beliefs, values, and attitudes about how the
government should function; ours emphasizes liberty, justice, and democracy
Liberty - correct answer ✔✔Freedom from government control
Equality of opportunity - correct answer ✔✔A widely shared American ideal that all people should have
the freedom to use whatever talents and wealth they have to reach their fullest potential
Political equality - correct answer ✔✔The right o participate in politics equally; based on "one person,
one vote"
Politics - correct answer ✔✔process of determining who gets what, when, and how in a society
Conflict over leadership, structure, adn policies of government
Government - correct answer ✔✔A group of individuals or an institution that make society's rules that
also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules
Power - correct answer ✔✔The ability to influence the behavior of others
Authority - correct answer ✔✔Power that comes from the formal organizational hierarchy
Public Goods - correct answer ✔✔Those everyone needs but no one has the incentive to provide them
adequately
Political efficacy - correct answer ✔✔The ability to influence government and politics
Monarchy (autocracy) - correct answer ✔✔A single individual rules
Aristocracy (Oligarchy) - correct answer ✔✔A small group of people (landowners, military officers, the
wealthy) controls most of the governing decisions
Democracy (polity) - correct answer ✔✔Citizens play a significant part in the government process,
usually through election of public officials
Direct Democracy - correct answer ✔✔People vote on everything - NOT representatives
, Indirect Democracy - correct answer ✔✔Representative democracy (republic) representatives are
elected
Referendum - correct answer ✔✔A procedure whereby the public directly vote on an issue
Initiative - correct answer ✔✔A procedure whereby citizens propose an issue to the state electoral for
popular vote
Constitutional Government - correct answer ✔✔A system where limits are placed on the powers of
government
Authoritarian government - correct answer ✔✔Government has no formal limits bu may be restrained
by the power of other social institutions
Totalitarian government - correct answer ✔✔Government has no formal limits and seeks to absorb or
eliminate other social institutions that might challenge it
Pluralism - correct answer ✔✔All interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the
government
Political culture - correct answer ✔✔broadly shared beliefs, values, and attitudes about how the
government should function; ours emphasizes liberty, justice, and democracy
Liberty - correct answer ✔✔Freedom from government control
Equality of opportunity - correct answer ✔✔A widely shared American ideal that all people should have
the freedom to use whatever talents and wealth they have to reach their fullest potential
Political equality - correct answer ✔✔The right o participate in politics equally; based on "one person,
one vote"
