POLS 1101 Exam 1 Prep
Two fundamental questions about government and politics: - ✔✔What do we observe? Why?
The institutions and procedures through which a land and its people are ruled - ✔✔government
Are governments
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POLS 1101 Exam 1 Prep
Two fundamental questions about government and politics: - ✔✔What do we observe? Why?
The institutions and procedures through which a land and its people are ruled - ✔✔government
Are governments simple or complex? - ✔✔can be either
A single individual rules - ✔✔autocracy
A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process -
✔✔democracy
Formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of government - ✔✔constitutional
No formal limits are placed on government but government may be effectively limited by other
social institutions - ✔✔authoritarian
No formal or effective limits on government's power of any kind - ✔✔totalitarian
the process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common, or
collective, action even as they may continue to disagree on the goals that action in intended to
achieve - ✔✔politics
a set of rules proscribing a process for reaching and enforcing collective agreements -
✔✔institutions
establishes a nations governing institutions and the set of rules and procedures these institutions
must (and must not) follow to reach and enforce collective agreements - ✔✔constitution
Institutions provide authority in what four ways? - ✔✔1. Jurisdiction
2. Agenda and veto power
3. Decisiveness
4. Delegation
The domain over which decisions may be made - ✔✔jurisdiction
Gatekeeping power and the power to say "no" - ✔✔agenda and veto power
Rules for decision making - ✔✔decisiveness
Transmission of authority - ✔✔delegation
The Constitution sought to: - ✔✔reassure diverse interests they would be better off under the
proposed system t
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