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