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Chapter 4: AP
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- 2. Political Culture -- Distinctive and patterned way of thinking about how political and economic aid should be carried out
- 3. Political System Libertywe are preoccupied with our rights and we should be free to do as we please so long as we don’t hurt someone else
- 4. Equality Equal voteand chance to participate Democracy Government officials should be accountable to the people
- 5. Civic Duty aughtto take community affairs seriously and help out when you can Individual Responsibility characteristically American view. Barring some disability individuals are responsible for their own actions
- 6. Economy Americanssupport free enterprise. We question how much freedom should be in the marketplace. How much should government interact?
- 7. Americans tend tosupport government regulations of business in order to keep some firms from becoming too powerful and to correct specific abuses Americans are more willing to tolerate economic inequality than political inequality
- 8. In the opportunityv results argument, Americans tend to favor equality of opportunity over equality of results
- 9. Sources of politicalculture American Revolution was fought over liberty. An assertion by the Colonists of what they took to be their natural rights Constitution - reconcile liberty with needs of social control
- 10. Preoccupation with maintenanceof rights Distrust of authority and people wielding power
- 11. Civic Duty Thebelief that one has an obligation to participate in civil and political affairs Civil Competence a belief that one can affect government policies
- 12. Class Consciousness abelief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups
- 13. Culture War Compromise almost impossible to arrange, conflict that is more profound. For example: Orthodox v Progressive, abortion, gay rights, drug use, different from other disputes because money is not at stake
- 14. Orthodox a beliefthat morality and religion out to be decisive Progressive a belief that personal freedom and solving social issues are more important than religion
- 15. Political Efficacy -a belief that you can take part in politics (internal) or that the government will respond (external)
- 16. Mistrust in GovernmentSince the 1950s there has been a decline in trust of government People are talking about government officials, not the system, we are actually supportive of the system Why? Watergate, Vietnam, Lewinsky 9/11 reinvigorated patriotism, but slowly declining again