AP US Government Chapter 10 Terms
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Interest group - ✔✔Organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy
process to try to achieve those goals
Pluralism - ✔✔Theory of government emphasizing that many groups compete and
counterbalance one another in the political marketplac
Elitism - ✔✔Theory of government contending that an upper class elite will hold most
power and run the government
Hyperpluralism - ✔✔Theory of government contending that groups are so strong that
government, seeing to please them all, is thereby weakened
Iron triangles - ✔✔Subgovernments composed of interest group leaders interested in a
particular policy, the government agency in charge of administering that policy, and the
members of committees handling that policy. They exercise a great deal of control over
specific policy areas
Potential groip - ✔✔People who might be interest group members because they share
common interest
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Interest group - ✔✔Organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy
process to try to achieve those goals
Pluralism - ✔✔Theory of government emphasizing that many groups compete and
counterbalance one another in the political marketplac
Elitism - ✔✔Theory of government contending that an upper class elite will hold most
power and run the government
Hyperpluralism - ✔✔Theory of government contending that groups are so strong that
government, seeing to please them all, is thereby weakened
Iron triangles - ✔✔Subgovernments composed of interest group leaders interested in a
particular policy, the government agency in charge of administering that policy, and the
members of committees handling that policy. They exercise a great deal of control over
specific policy areas
Potential groip - ✔✔People who might be interest group members because they share
common interest
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