Politics and Collective Action: Understanding the Challenges and Solutions, Quizzes of Local Government Studies

Download Politics and Collective Action: Understanding the Challenges and Solutions and more Quizzes Local Government Studies in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Social choices breed conflict. How do people manage such conflicts? DEFINITION 1 Politics TERM 2 Politics DEFINITION 2 The process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common, or collective, action-- even as they disagree on the intended goals of that action. TERM 3 Politics invariably requires DEFINITION 3 bargaining and compromise TERM 4 Who said that the new government must be devised to represent and reconcile society's many, diverse preferences that are "sown into the nature of man"? DEFINITION 4 James Madison TERM 5 What is the purpose of rules/institutions? DEFINITION 5 To guide an organizations members in making essentially political decisions TERM 6 Constitution DEFINITION 6 The set of rules and procedures institutions must follow to reach and enforce collective agreements. TERM 7 Government DEFINITION 7 consists of institutions and the legally prescribed process for making and enforcing collective agreements TERM 8 Power DEFINITION 8 an officeholder's actual influence with other officeholders and, as a consequence, over the government's actions TERM 9 The quality of democracy in America reflects the quality of DEFINITION 9 its governing institutions TERM 10 Collective Action DEFINITION 10 the efforts of a group to reach and implement agreements TERM 21 Tragedy of the commons DEFINITION 21 individuals' costless consumption of a public good that results in its ruination. TERM 22 Solutions to tragedy of the commons DEFINITION 22 proper institutional design, regulation, and privatizing TERM 23 Regulation DEFINITION 23 setting up rules limiting access to the common resource and monitoring and penalizing those who violate them. TERM 24 Privatizing DEFINITION 24 Converting from a public good to a private good; less costly, more effective TERM 25 Costs of collective action DEFINITION 25 transaction costs and conformity costs TERM 26 Transaction Costs DEFINITION 26 time, effort, and resources required to make collective decisions TERM 27 Conformity Costs DEFINITION 27 Participants do something they prefer not to (ex. pay taxes)