PS101 Exam One

A legal status that accords full membership in a political community

A virtue that is an essential element of good citizenship, including self-restraint, self-reliance, civic knowledge, and civic participation and service

Reasoning on the merits of public policy, searching for the public interest or common good

Any obligation that citizens owe to the broader political community

A democracy whose institutions are designed to promote the rule of reasoned and informed majorities, usually through representative institutions

When legislatures (or others) trade support for one another's proposals

The view that a large number of diverse groups control the government and politics and promote policies to serve their particular interests

The view that government is controlled by a relative handful of elites in government, business, the professions, and the media who often think alike and work together to promote their mutual interests

A theory of politics based on the premise that citizens and public officials act rationally to serve their personal interests

The obligations that citizens owe to one another or the community as a whole, such as obeying the law

A form of government in which the people rule themselves either directly or through freely elected representatives

A form of government originally found in ancient Greece, in which the people directly pass laws and make other key decisions

A form of government in which the people choose theirs leaders through free elections in which candidates and political parties compete for popular support and in which elected officials are held accountable for their conduct

As the american founders used the term, equivalent to a representative democracy

Defined by James Madison in Fed. 10 as a majority of the people brought together by a common passion or interest adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community