AP Gov Chapter 1 vocab

The institutions through which public policies are made for a society.

• Policy Gridlock

• Government

• Politics

• Policymaking system

The process by which policy comes into being and evolves.

• political cultute

• Policy Agenda

• government

• Policymaking system

An overall set of values widely shared within a society

• politics

• elitism

• political culture

• puralism

Groups that have a narrow interest on which their members tend to take an uncompromising stance.

• Single-issue group

• democracy

• hyper pluralism

• political issue

Political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda. (political parties, elections, interest groups, the media, etc.)

• Linkage Institutions

• Institute

• Policies

• politics

Several issues that capture the serious attention of political officials and other figures in politics at a given time

• single-group issues

• politics

• Policy agenda

• institutes

The process determining the leaders we elect and the policies they pursue.

• Politics

• Political issues

• policy agenda

• political culture

Goods and services that by nature cannot be denied to anyone.

• Collective goods

• Policies

• Politics

• democracy

A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences

• elitism

• puralism

• Democracy

• politics

The democratic theory that states that the government is comprised of several different groups that compete to reach compromise, no one group dominating another.

• Pluralism

• Elitism

• hyperpuralism

• Majority rule