American Government and Civic Engagement

The means by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals

• Politics

• Ideology

• Government

• Partisanship

Goods that all people may use but that are of limited supply

• Private goods

• Public Goods

• Common goods

• Toll Goods

Goods provided by private businesses that can be used only by those who pay for them

• Private goods

• Public Goods

• Common goods

• Toll Goods

Goods provided by government that anyone can use and that are available to all without charge

• Private goods

• Public Goods

• Common goods

• Toll Goods

A good that is available to many people but is used only by those who can pay the price to do so

• Private goods

• Public Goods

• Common goods

• Toll Goods

A form of government where political power rests in the hands of the people

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

A form of government where voters elect representatives to make decisions and pass laws on behalf of all the people instead of allowing people to vote directly on laws

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• democracy

• politics

A form of government where people participate directly in making government decisions instead of choosing representatives to do this for them

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• democracy

• politics

A form of government where a handful of elite society members hold political power

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

A form of government where government is all-powerful and citizens have no rights

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy