POL_SC 1100 Chapter Notes -Cloture, Get Out The Vote, Protectionism
Document Summary
American government is set up to avoid domination by any one of these groups: separation of powers: division of government power across judicial, executive and legislative branches, checks and balances: system in which each branch of government has some power over the others, federalism: division of power across local, state, and national levels of government, public goods: services or actions that, once provided to one person, become available to everyone. Collective action problems: situations in which members of group would benefit by working together to produce some outcome, but each individual is better off refusing to cooperate and reaping benefits from those who do the work: positive externalities: benefits created by public good that are shared by the primary consumer of the good and by society more generally, free rider problem: incentive to benefit from others" work without making contribution, which leads individuals in collective action situation to refuse to work together.
