Statistics for Government and Politic Terms

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Term	Answer	% Correct
orthodox	a belief that morality and religion ought to be of decisive importance	0%
civic competence	a belief that one can affect government policies	0%
civic duty	a belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political affairs	0%
progressive	a belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion	0%
class consciousness	a belief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups	0%
political efficacy	a belief that you can take part in politics (internal efficacy) or that the government will respond to the citizenry (external efficacy)	0%
political culture	a coherent way of thinking about how politics and government ought to be carried out	0%
direct or participatory democracy	a government in which all or most citizens participate directly	0%
representative democracy	a government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote	0%
elite	persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power	0%
legitimacy	political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution	0%
power	the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions	0%
internal efficacy	the ability to understand and take part in politics	0%
pluralist view	the belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy	0%
authority	the right to use power	0%
democracy	the rule of many	0%
external efficacy	the willingness of the state to respond to the citizenry	0%
power elite view	view that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government	0%
bureaucratic view	view that the government is dominated by appointed officials	0%
marxist view	view that the government is dominated by capitalists	0%