U.S. Govt Quiz 1

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE POLITICAL POWER REST IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE

• OLIGARCHY

• SOCIALISM

• TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

• DEMOCRACY

PROTECTIONS FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT PART OF THE MAJORITY

• AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

• MINORITY RIGHTS

• CIVIL RIGHTS

• BILL OF RIGHTS

THE BELIEFS AND IDEALS THAT HELP TO SHAPE POLITICAL OPINION AND EVENTUALLY POLICY

• COMMUNISM

• SOCIAL CAPITOL

• PLURALIST THEORY

• IDEOLOGY

THE MEANS BY WHICH A SOCIETY ORGANIZES ITSELF AND ALLOCATES AUTHORITY IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH COLLECTIVE GOALS

• POLITICS

• OLIGARCHY

• GOVERNMENT

• ELITE THEORY

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE PEOPLE PARTICIPATE DIRECTLY IN MAKING GOVERNMENT DECISIONS INSTEAD OF CHOOSING REPRESENTATIVES TO DO THIS FOR THEM

• FEDERALISM

• REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

• CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

• DIRECT DEMOCRACY

CLAIMS POLITICAL POWER REST IN THE HANDS OF A SMALL, ELITE GROUP OF PEOPLE

• ELITE THEORY

• PLURALIST THEORY

• AMENDMENT

• SEPERATION OF POWER

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE ONE RULER, USUALLY A HEREDITARY ONE, HOLDS POLITICAL POWER

• OLIGARCHY

• MONARCHY

• THEOCRACY

• ARISTOCRACY

BELEIFS AND PREFERENCES BASED ON STRONG FEELINGS REGARDING AN ISSUE THAT SOMEONE ADHERES TO OVER TIME

• LATENT PREFERENCES

• TOLL GOOD

• INTENSE PREFERENCES

• SOCIAL CAPITOL

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE VOTERS ELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO MAKE DECISIONS AND PASS LAWS ON BEHALF OF ALL THE PEOPLE TO VOTE DIRECTLY ON LAWS

• REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

• BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE

• OLIGARCHY

• COMMUNISM

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE A HANDFUL OF ELITE SOCIETY MEMBERS HOLD POLITICAL POWER

• REVOLUTIONARISM

• DICTATORSHIP

• OLIGARCHY

• SOCIALIST