Intro to Government

Government is

• concerned with economic problems not sociel problems

• implements policies that have been enacted by other institutions

• institutions through which public policies are made for society

• executive branch and its agencies

The policy making institutions in America include all of the following execpt

• political parties

• the Supreme Court

• Congress

• The president

• the Senate

Things that are indivisible, nonexclusive, and that everyone can share are called

• Communist

• community property

• socialist goods

• intangible property

• public goods

Government in the modern world, whether democratic or not, are similar in doing all of the following except

• providing public goods

• protecting citizens civil liberties

• maintaining a national defense

• providing public services

• collecting taxes

An interest group so single minded that members only vote on one issue

• a uni-issue group

• a single issue group

• a mono issue group

• a hot button group

Politics is defined as

• a course of action to solve a problem

• conflict in society

• who gets what when and how

• the exercise of power

When compared to the rest of the world America has a relavitvely lower

• number of offices up for election

• number of candidates who seek office

• frequency of elections

• voter turnout in elections

A list of problems in which politicians pay serious attention to is

• legislative package

• policy agenda

• issue constellation

• problem set

a choice that government makes in response to some issue on its agenda is called

• stimulus- response

• a lawbreaker

• public policy

• rational choice theory

In a democratic society parties, elections, interest groups, and the media are all examples of

• in puts and out puts

• government

• linkage institutions

• public goods