American Government and Civic Engagement (American Government)

Recall cards on the foundations of American government and civic engagement. What government and politics are, the services government provides, and the distinction between public, private, common, and toll goods. The forms of government, democracy, representative and direct democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, and totalitarianism. Who governs, elite theory versus pluralist theory and the tradeoffs perspective, plus majority rule, minority rights, intense and latent preferences, ideology, and partisanship. And engagement in a democracy: civic engagement, social capital, voting, recent participation figures, and how participation correlates with wealth and education.