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| Is built by the idea of people coming together, listening to each other exchanging ideas, learning to appreciate each other's differences, and defending their opinions is sometimes called "deliberation". Thought to foster and strengthen community and relationships in ways that do not happen when citizens only cast ballots. |
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| the rights of all people to dignity and worth- and that government must be limited and controlled because it was a threat to those rights. |
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| Government takes a more "hands off" approach to the economy and sets up fewer trade barriers. |
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| Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them. |
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| Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority |
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| A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. |
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Government is based on a body of law applied equally and by just procedures. Follows (5) rules:
Generality(general laws, not singling anyone out), prospectivity(laws apply to present and future), publicity(no laws secret), authority(popular rule by popularly voted officials), due process(fair) |
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| Opposite to rule of law, enforced by an elite whose whims decide policy or resolve disputes. |
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| An enduring sense of national identity or consciousness that derives from cultural, historic, linguistic, or political forces. |
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| The widespread belief that the United States is a lang of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success. |
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| An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production, distribution, and pricing of goods and services. |
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| A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government. |
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| A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity. |
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| A belief that limited government ensures order, competitive markets, and personal opportunity. |
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| An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange. |
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| An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life. |
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| The widely shared beliefs, values, and norms about how citizens relate to government and to one another. |
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| Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. |
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| the process by which we develop our political attitudes, values, and beliefs. |
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| The study of the characteristics of populations. |
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| A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior. |
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| Divisions within society that reinforce one another, making groups more homogeneous or similar. |
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| Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogenous or different. |
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| A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
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| A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. |
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| A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race. |
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| Conservative Christians who as a group have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. |
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| The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women. |
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| gross domestic product(GDP) |
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| The total output of all economic activity in the nation, including goods and services. |
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| socioeconomic status(SES) |
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| A division of population based on occupation, income, and education. |
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| Means of communication that reach the public, including newspapers and magazines, radio, television(broadcast, cable, and satellite), films, recordings, books, and electronic communication. |
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| Media that emphasize the news. |
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| The process by which we develop our political attitudes, values, and beliefs. |
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| The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases. |
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| A close contest; by extension, any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates. |
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| The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases. |
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