Details Title: AP Gov Vocab Description: vocab for chapter 2 from book Total Flash Cards: 17 Created: 09/01/2007 19:14:47		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Political Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Autocracy Definition a system of government in which the power to govern is concentrated in the hands of one individual Term Oligarchy Definition a system of government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a few people Term Democracy Definition a system of government in which, in theory, the people rule, either directly or indirectly Term Procedural Democratic Theory Definition a view of deomcracy as being embodied in a decision-making process that involves universal participation, political equality, majority rule, and responsiveness Term Universal Participation Definition the concept that everyone in a democracy should participate in governmental decision-making Term Majority Rule Definition the principle--basic to procedural democratic theory--that the decision of a group must reflect the preference of more than half of those participating; a simple majority Term Participatory Democracy Definition a system of government where rank-and-file citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf Term Representative Democracy Definition a system of government where citizens elect public officals to govern on their behalf Term Responsiveness Definition a decision-making principle, necessitated by representative government, that implies that elected representatives should do what the majority of people wants Term Substantive Democratic Theory Definition the view that democracy is embodied in the substance of government policies rather than in the policymaking procedure Term Minority Rights Definition the benefits of government that cannot be denied to any citizen by majority decisions Term Majoritarian Model of Democracy Definition the classic theory of democracy in which government by the people is interpreted as government by the majority of the people Term Deliberative Democracy Definition that model of democracy in which citizens and their elected representatives exercise reasoned and full debate on question of public policy Term Intertest Group Definition an organized group of individualst that seek to influence public policy Term Pluralist Model of Democracy Definition an interpretation of democracy in which government by the people is taken to mean government by people operating through competing interest groups Term Elite Theory Definition the view that a small group of people actually makes most of the important government decisions Term Democratization Definition a process of transition as a country attempts to move from an authoritarian form of government to a democratic one