CONCPET FRAME UNIT 1 CHAPTER 1 SIGNIFICANC

principles

This term links to the beliefs and values that the founders of the American government held when they designed America's constitutional government.

processes

This term links to how the American government was established over time and through a period of historical stages from colonization to revolution: from failure to the “rule of law”. 

policies

This term links to processes since the laws that are made emanate from those issues that directly concern people and how they access government. The government responds to the concerns of the people by making laws – rules and regulations that address their issues.

behaviors

This term links to the expectations and functions of government and its impact upon citizens and their impact upon it arising from issues that may occur from either.

institutions

This term links to the formal establishment of agencies and entities that administer policies necessitated from citizens’ concerns. They are individuals, systems, and structures.

government

This term links to the authority given to institutions to provide necessary functions to citizens.

collective goods

The term links to benefiting the lives of citizens, libraries allowing citizens to educate themselves if they'd like, or pathways  connecting roads allowing titizens to moto travel far distances if they'd like to different states, making living enjoyable in a way.

political participation

This term links to the main way democracy works and the way the people shape government.

single issue groups

This term links to democratic government because in a democratic government people have the right to organize, express their views, and pressure the government to respond.

policymaking system

this term links to how citizens can have an impact on policy because citizens' interest or concerns impact policy and the policy impacts them. The cycle repeats

linkage institutions

This term links to how citizens have an impact on public policy because their concerns go through the linkage institutions to the policy agenda so that the policy makers make a policy that impacts the citizens.

policy agenda

This term links to how citizens influence what issues the government chooses to prioritize/address.

policymaking institutions

 This term  links to the objective because they are branches of government where  citizen influence turns into actual policies. Citizens impact them by voting for leaders, lobbying, protesting, or filing lawsuits. then these institutions make  laws.

public policy

This term links to objective because public policy is the outcome of the poltiical process, the actual law or ruling post policymaking system process.

policy impacts

this term links to the objective because they show the effect government decisions have on people’s lives.

democracy

This term links to the objective  because its key principles like popular sovereignty, political equality, majority rule with minority rights, and accountability show how people govern themselves.

majority rules

This term is linked to the objective because it reflects the principle of popular sovereignty while raising challenges about protecting minority voices.

minority rights

links to the objective because it shows how democracy balances majority power with fairness, and highlights the challenge of preventing “tyranny of the majority.”

representation

This links to the objective because it is a core principle of democratic practice, and theories like pluralism and elitism debate how well representation actually works today.

pluralisim

This term links to the fact that because it reflects how democracy works in practice through interest groups and highlights participation as a key principle.

elitism

This term links to the objective because it challenges the democratic ideal of equal representation, showing a weakness in how democracy works in reality.

hyperpluralism

this term links to the challenges democratic governments face due to things such as hyperpluralism

policy gridlock

These terms link to the challenges the government would face today. the inability to solve pressing issues despite public demand.

political culture

It is significant because it shapes democratic principles, guides how democracy works in practice, and helps explain challenges such as low participation.

gross domestic product (GDP)

connects to the objective because it measures the debate over the government's scope.whether the government should stay limited to let the economy grow freely, or take a larger role by taxing and spending to address inequality and provide services.

Politics

This term is central to democracy because it shows how citizens influence government, how power is exercised legitimately, and how decisions are made to serve the public interest.