WGU C181 Final A+
Conservatives - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote order but not equality
Social equality - ✔Equality is wealth, education, and status.
Rights - ✔The benefits of government to which every citizen is entitled
Capitalism - ✔The system of government that favors free enterprise (privately owned
businesses operating without government regulation).
Anarchism - ✔A political philosophy that opposes government in any form.
Liberals - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote equality but not order
Communitarians - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote both order and
equality.
Liberalism - ✔The belief that states should leave individuals free to follow their individual
pursuits. Note that this is different than liberals. (Freedom)
Socialism - ✔A form of rule in which the central government plays a strong role in regulating
existing private industry and directing the economy, although it does allow some private
ownership of productive capacity.
government - ✔legitimate use of force including fire arms, imprisonment, and execution, within
specific graphical boundaries to control human behavior.
communist - ✔Strict social order as top priority
totalitarianism - ✔government should have unlimited power, controlling all sectors of society and
every aspect of individual behavior.
, Equality of outcome - ✔belief that government should design policies that distribute wealth and
status so that economic and social equality are actually achieved. (allocating admissions or jobs
on the basis of race, gender, or disability, which is unrelated to ability).
Protect life and property - ✔the original purpose of government
majoritarian and pluralist - ✔two models of democratic government that are used to evaluate the
american governmental process.
National Sovereignty - ✔Each national government has the right to govern its people as it
wishes.
Autocracy - ✔One individual has the power to make all important decisions.
Oligarchy - ✔Puts government power in the hands of the "elite" or noble.
democracy - ✔Rule by the people
procedural democratic theory - ✔sets forth principles that describe how government should
make decisions.
Universal participation - ✔does not exclude any adults from participation (everyone should
participate in decision making)
Pluralist model of democracy - ✔government by people operating through competing interest
groups
Majoritarian model of democracy - ✔government by the people
Elite theory - ✔view that a small group (minority) make the most important government
decisions. group with vast wealth and business connections.
Conservatives - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote order but not equality
Social equality - ✔Equality is wealth, education, and status.
Rights - ✔The benefits of government to which every citizen is entitled
Capitalism - ✔The system of government that favors free enterprise (privately owned
businesses operating without government regulation).
Anarchism - ✔A political philosophy that opposes government in any form.
Liberals - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote equality but not order
Communitarians - ✔Those who are willing to use government to promote both order and
equality.
Liberalism - ✔The belief that states should leave individuals free to follow their individual
pursuits. Note that this is different than liberals. (Freedom)
Socialism - ✔A form of rule in which the central government plays a strong role in regulating
existing private industry and directing the economy, although it does allow some private
ownership of productive capacity.
government - ✔legitimate use of force including fire arms, imprisonment, and execution, within
specific graphical boundaries to control human behavior.
communist - ✔Strict social order as top priority
totalitarianism - ✔government should have unlimited power, controlling all sectors of society and
every aspect of individual behavior.
, Equality of outcome - ✔belief that government should design policies that distribute wealth and
status so that economic and social equality are actually achieved. (allocating admissions or jobs
on the basis of race, gender, or disability, which is unrelated to ability).
Protect life and property - ✔the original purpose of government
majoritarian and pluralist - ✔two models of democratic government that are used to evaluate the
american governmental process.
National Sovereignty - ✔Each national government has the right to govern its people as it
wishes.
Autocracy - ✔One individual has the power to make all important decisions.
Oligarchy - ✔Puts government power in the hands of the "elite" or noble.
democracy - ✔Rule by the people
procedural democratic theory - ✔sets forth principles that describe how government should
make decisions.
Universal participation - ✔does not exclude any adults from participation (everyone should
participate in decision making)
Pluralist model of democracy - ✔government by people operating through competing interest
groups
Majoritarian model of democracy - ✔government by the people
Elite theory - ✔view that a small group (minority) make the most important government
decisions. group with vast wealth and business connections.
