Exam 1 Review- POLI 2051 Kenny
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What is government? - ✔✔a formally established way of making and carrying out
political decisions
What is politics? - ✔✔the competition to shape government's impact on society's
problems and goals
In what ways is our present government undemocratic? - ✔✔Electoral college,
gerrymandering, lobbying, appointed officials, executive orders, senate set-up
What is gerrymandering? - ✔✔practice to manipulate electoral to be in favor of one
party in particular
Why do we have government? - ✔✔refer to social contract theory
What is social contract theory? - ✔✔normative rather than empirical theory (normative-
the way government should handle things; empirical- the way things actually are)
protects natural rights between people and the government - ✔✔the social contract
theory
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,Purposes of government - ✔✔protecting life; rights and liberties; providing public
goods; promoting equality
purposes of government can _ but you can understand these differences in term of
political ideology (people can't agree on importance) - ✔✔conflict
Political ideology - ✔✔the way priorities are organized
political ideology is also - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect society
and which policies are desirable
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: freedom - ✔✔liberals
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: Control - ✔✔Conservatives
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: control - ✔✔populists
(Nolan chart)
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, Economic issues: freedom
social issues: freedom - ✔✔libertarians
Stages of policy process (the never ending cycle) - ✔✔-people
-linkage processes
-linkage institutions
-governmental agenda
-government
-policies
(policy process):
-interests
-problems
-concerns - ✔✔People
(policy process):
-elections
-polls
-lobbying - ✔✔Linkage processes
(policy process):
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is government? - ✔✔a formally established way of making and carrying out
political decisions
What is politics? - ✔✔the competition to shape government's impact on society's
problems and goals
In what ways is our present government undemocratic? - ✔✔Electoral college,
gerrymandering, lobbying, appointed officials, executive orders, senate set-up
What is gerrymandering? - ✔✔practice to manipulate electoral to be in favor of one
party in particular
Why do we have government? - ✔✔refer to social contract theory
What is social contract theory? - ✔✔normative rather than empirical theory (normative-
the way government should handle things; empirical- the way things actually are)
protects natural rights between people and the government - ✔✔the social contract
theory
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,Purposes of government - ✔✔protecting life; rights and liberties; providing public
goods; promoting equality
purposes of government can _ but you can understand these differences in term of
political ideology (people can't agree on importance) - ✔✔conflict
Political ideology - ✔✔the way priorities are organized
political ideology is also - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect society
and which policies are desirable
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: freedom - ✔✔liberals
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: Control - ✔✔Conservatives
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: control - ✔✔populists
(Nolan chart)
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, Economic issues: freedom
social issues: freedom - ✔✔libertarians
Stages of policy process (the never ending cycle) - ✔✔-people
-linkage processes
-linkage institutions
-governmental agenda
-government
-policies
(policy process):
-interests
-problems
-concerns - ✔✔People
(policy process):
-elections
-polls
-lobbying - ✔✔Linkage processes
(policy process):
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