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| Deciding who gets what, when and how |
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| the study of politics: who governs, for what ends, and by what means |
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| orginization extending to the whole society that can legitmately use force to carry out its decisions |
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| costs imposed on people who are not direct participants in an activity |
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| goverment transfers of income from tas payers to persons regarded as deserving |
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| free competition for volutory exchange among individuals, firms, and corporations |
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| The dollar sum of all the goods and services produced in a nation in a year |
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| principle that goverment power over the individual is limited, that there are some personal liberties that even a majority cannot regulated and taht goverment itself is restrained by law |
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| rule by an elite that exercises unlimited power over indivuduals in all aspects of life |
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| goverment system in which every person participates actively in ever public decision rather than delegating decisions making to representiatives |
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| individual dignity,equality before the law, widespread participation in publicions, and public decisions by majority rule, with one person having one vote |
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| theory that all socities, even demorcracies are divided into the few who govern and many who do not |
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| theory that democracy can be achieved through competition among multiple organized groups and that individuals can participate in politics through group memberships and elections |
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| goods and services that cannot readily be provided by markets eighter because they are too expensive for a single individual to buy or because if one person bought them every one else would use them with out paying. |
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| governing system in which public decisons making is delegated to representatives of the people chosen by popular vote in free open and periodic elections |
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| widespread aceptance of something as necessary rightfuly and legally binding |
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| idea that goverment originates as an implied contract among individuals who agree to obey laws in exchange for protection of their rights |
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| potential for conflict between individual freedom and majority rule |
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