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POlS 1101 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update
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- POLS 1101
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- Georgia State University
POlS 1101 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update
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POlS 1101 Exam 1 Questions and Answers
Latest Update 2024-2025
Politics ANS✔✔ Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of
government (who gets what, when, and how)
Four I's of US decision making ANS✔✔ Ideas, Interests, Institutions, and
individuals
Political equality ANS✔✔ all citizens have the same political rights and
opportunities
Social Equality ANS✔✔ all individuals enjoy the same status in society
Economic Equality ANS✔✔ there are only small differences in wealth
between citizens
Rational-choice theory ANS✔✔ an approach to political behavior that views
individuals as rational decision-makers who know their political interests
and seek to act on them
Pluralist theory ANS✔✔ the many interest groups influence politics
Elite theory ANS✔✔ the power lies with a small number of the rich and
powerful
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Bureaucratic theory ANS✔✔ the control lies with the millions of men and
women who carry out the day-to-day operations of the government
Political culture and what are is America's foundation of it? ANS✔✔ the
attitude, beliefs, and assumptions that give order and meaning to public life.
and ideas such as liberty, the fear of government, individualism, and the
American Dream
How many Christian denominations are there in the US? ANS✔✔ 16
Social democracy and what is it based on? ANS✔✔ the idea that
government should make sure all are comfortably cared for within the
capitalist economy and it is based on solidarity, the idea that everyone has
a tight bond and are responsible for one another
Republic ANS✔✔ a government in which citizens rule indirectly and permit
elected representatives to make decisions
2018 FY Government budget and % of spending on 4 main prorams and
what are they? ANS✔✔ $4.4 trillion and 75% of that was spent on military,
medicare, medicaid, and social security
"The United States is a nation of immigrants" ANS✔✔ The US is where
people come to reinvent themselves
7 ideas that guide US politics ANS✔✔ Liberty/Freedom, self-rule
(democracy), limited government, individualism, the American dream,
Equality, and Faith in God
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