Vocabulary Review AP Gov

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Across
  1. 7. the incentive to benefit from others' work without making a contribution
  2. 10. the need to balance control with discretion
  3. 11. political freedom
  4. 13. political conflict in the United States between "red-state" Americans and "blue-state" Americans
  5. 15. the branch of govt. that interprets or judges laws
  6. 16. the system for implementing decisions made through the political process
  7. 18. the knowledge, personnel, and institutions needed to effectively implement policies
  8. 21. the branch of govt. that makes laws
  9. 22. the division of govt. power
  10. 23. aka step by step rules every bureacrat must follow when implementing policies
  11. 24. an economic system based on competition among businesses without government interference
  12. 25. gives each branch of government some power over the other two
Down
  1. 1. vast network of agencies that make up executive branch of the US govt.
  2. 2. "government by the people"
  3. 3. services/actions that, once provided to one person, become available to everyone
  4. 4. unwritten rules/informal agreements
  5. 5. a cohesive set of ideas and beliefs
  6. 6. the division of power across the state, local, and national levels of govt.
  7. 8. the branch of govt. that executes laws
  8. 9. the process that determines what government does
  9. 12. powers of one branch over another
  10. 14. powers shared between branches (i.e. war powers)
  11. 17. model of representative democracy: select citizens have disproportionate influence over govt. policy
  12. 19. excessive or unnecessarily complex regulations
  13. 20. groups of likeminded people