| A | B |
|---|
| The institutions that make decisions for a society | Government |
| Congress, President, courts, and federal administrative agencies (bureaucracy) | National Government |
| Functions of national government | Maintaining a national defense, providing public services, preserving order, socializing the young, collecting taxes |
| Determines who we select as our government leaders and what policies they should pursue | Politics |
| Groups so concerned with one issue that members often cast votes on the basis of that issue | Single-Issue Groups |
| The way our government responds to the priorities of its people | Policy-Making System |
| Parties, election groups, the media, and interest groups | Linkage Institutions |
| Issues that attract serious attention of public officials and others involved in politics | Policy Agenda |
| Every decision government makes in response to a political issue | Public Policy |
| Effects a policy has on people and on society's problems | Policy Impacts |
| A system of policy makers organizing government to reflect citizen's preferences | Democracy |
