POLS 206 TAMU EXAM ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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POLS 206 TAMU
POLS 206 TAMU EXAM 1ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Government - CORRECT ANSWER- The institution through which a society makes and
enforces its public policies
Functions of Government - CORRECT ANSWER- Maintain a national defense, provide
public services, preserve order, socialize the ...
POLS 206 TAMU EXAM 1ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The institution through which a society makes and
enforces its public policies
Functions of Government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Maintain a national defense, provide
public services, preserve order, socialize the young, and collect taxes
Politics - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the process of determining the leaders we select and the
policies they pursue. politics procedures authoritative decisions about public issues.
political participation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔All the activities used by citizens to
influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue
single-issue groups - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to
dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.
policymaking system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The process by which policy comes into
being and evolves. People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues for
government policymakers. These issues shape policy, which in turn impacts people,
generating more interests, problems, and concerns.
linkage institutions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the political channels through which
people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda
public policy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A choice that government makes in response to a
political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem.
policy impacts - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The effects a policy has on people and problems.
Impacts are analyzed to see how well a policy has met its goal and at what cost.
Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A system of selecting policymakers and of
organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences.
, ideal democratic process - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Equality in voting.
2. Effective participation
3. Enlightened. understanding.
4. Citizen control of the agenda.
5. Inclusion
majority rule - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A fundamental principle of traditional democratic
theory. In a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires that the majority's desire be
respected.
minority rights - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A principle of traditional democratic theory that
guarantees rights to those who do not belong to majorities.
representation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A basic principle of traditional democratic theory
that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers.
Pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A theory of government that holds that open,
multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Elitism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A theory of government and politics contending that an
upper-class elite will hold most of the power and thus in effect run the government.
Hyperpluralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a theory of government and politics contending
that groups are so strong that government is weakened
policy gridlock - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A condition that occurs when interests conflict
and no coalition is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, so nothing gets
done.
political culture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an overall set of values widely shared within a
society
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