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Government Lecure Notes
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History
12th Grade
12/07/2012

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What is the Toquiville of on the American Deomcracy?

Definition

 

                                     1.        Abundant and fertile soil for democracy to grow

                                     2.        No feudal aristocracy; minimal taxes; few legal restraints

                                     3.        Westward movement; vast territory provided opportunities

                                     4.        Nation of small, independent farmers

                                     5.        "Moral and intellectual characteristics," today called political culture

 

Term
Political Culture
Definition
 distinctive and patterned way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out
Term
What are the four elements of the American political system?
Definition

                                     1.        Liberty

                                     2.        Democracy

                                     3.        Equality

                                     4.        Civic duty

Term
How do very unpopular groups survive?
Definition

                                     1.        Most people do not act on beliefs

                                     2.        Usually no consensus on whom to persecute

                                     3.        Courts are sufficiently insulated from public opinion to enforce protection

Term

External Effieiency

Definition

                                         Belief that system will respond to citizens 

Not shaped by particular events

                    Declined steadily through the 1960s and 1970s

Term
Internal efficacy
Definition

Ability to understand and indluence events

About the same as in 19580s

 

 

Term
Political Efficiecy
Definition
Citizens capacity to understand an influence political events.
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How does culture wars differ from political system?
Definition

Money is not at stake

Compromises are almost impossible

Conflict is more profound


 

 

 

Term
What are causes of apparent decline in confidence?
Definition

Vietnam

Watergate

Clinton's sex scandals

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What is the importances of the culture war?
Definition

                                                     a.        More people consider themselves progressives than previously

                                                     b.        Rise of technology makes culture war easier to wage

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