Chapter 2

freedoms, rights, or liberties

Americans tend to define democracy in terms of

interest group

An organized group that seeks to influence government policy is called an

process of institutionalizing the rules of procedural democracy and establishing substantive democratic policies.

Democratization is the

substantive theories of democracy

The Bill of Rights is at the core of our

common people

The Greek word demos, which is the root of the term democracy, means

power

The Greek word kratos, one of the roots of the word democracy, means

universal participation

The concept that everyone in a democracy should participate in governmental decision making is ​

universal participation

The idea that all adults within the boundaries of a political community should be allowed to vote is known as

how government decisions are made

The procedural view of democracy is most concerned with

economic

The text suggests that there are _________ forces that may be pushing authoritarian governments toward democratization.