Study Guide Chapter 1 What is politics Why is it important Why are bargaining and compromise important to politics What are preferences What are institutions Why are they important What is a constitution What does it do What is a government Why are they important What is authority How is it different from power Why have institutional reform and how does it generally occur What is collective action Why are there problems associated with collective action Why are they hard to overcome What is coordination Make sure you can define coordination and why it is an important aspect of collective action What is the prisoner s dilemma What is free riding What is the Tragedy of the Commons How are they related and why would we study them in American Government You should be able to describe each of these and differentiate between them Also think of ways they can be solved What are the costs of collective action The visible material ones What about the not sovisible non material ones Define transaction and conformity costs and explain how they are related What does it mean to be inversely related You should be able to tell me the why and how of their inverse relationship Why are majority rule and delegation important concepts What do they help do in terms of collective action What is separation of powers Why would the Founders create a system like this What is the principle agent relationship Can you think of an example from your own life of such a relationship What do you think is the most important principle agent relationship in American government What is agency loss Why does it occur What is a representative government What is direct democracy What is a republic How do a parliamentary system government and a presidential system government compare What is a coalition Why do politicians act strategically What are private versus public goods How does the institutional design of our federal government mitigate popular passions
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