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The institutions that make authoritative decisions that apply to all of society are collectively known as government
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| Goods, such as clean air and clean water that everyone must share. |
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| The process by which political problems are communicated by the voters and acted upon by govt policymakers. Begins with people's needs and expectations for govt action. |
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| The channels or access points through which issues and people's policy preferences get on the govt's policy agenda. In the US, elections, political parties, and interest groups are the 3 main linkage institutions. |
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| When people confront govt officials with problems that they want solved, they are trying to influence the govt's policy agenda. To get on the agenday, use linkage instit. |
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| An issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and a public policy choice. |
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| a choice that the govt makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem |
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| A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing govt so that policy represents and responds to the public preferences |
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| Traditional Democratic Party |
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| A theory about how a democratic govt makes its decisions. According to Dahl, its cornerstones are equality in voting, effective participation, enlightened understanding, final control over the agenda, and inclusion. |
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| Theory of govt and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. |
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| theory of govt and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper class elite will rule, regardless of the formal niceties of govt organization. |
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| theory of govt and politics contending that groups are so strong that govt is weakened. Extreme, exaggerated, or perverted form of pluralism. |
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| Technical expertise, Limited participation in govt, campaign costs, diverse political interest |
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| The belief that individuals should be left on their own by the govt. One of the primary reasons for the comparatively small scope of american govt is the prominence of this belief in american political thought and practice. |
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