corporations and political establishments.Rational Choice: An approach that says that individuals seek their own interests in making political decisions.Chapter SevenBicameralism: The dicvision of the legislature into two "houses".Committee System: The system of legislation where each "house" has varous committees empowered to streamline the legislative process by considering bills within their areas of expertese. Constituent Service: Activities by legislatures to obtain information, favors, and exceptions for their constituents. Delagate Model: An approach to representation in which the representative follows the expressed preferences of the voters that elected him / her.Folkways: The norms and traditions observed in a legislature pertaining to the way that members treat each other and expect to be treated. Ombudsman: A person who attempts or an office that attempts to resolve the problems that individual citizens have with administrative agentcies and programs. Parliamentary System: A system of excutive-legislative relations in which the legislature elects the chief excutive.Policy Initiation: The first steps taken to make or change policy; excutives and administrators have increacingly taken over this function in industrial democracies. Politico Model: An approach to legislation in which the legislator follows the delagate and trustee model depending on the nature of the problem and the strength of of public opinion.Presidential System: A system of excutive-legislative relations in which the chief excutive are elected separately.Responsible Parties: Parties that can demand responsibility from their members elected to a legislature, members of these parties almost always all ways follow the "party line".Statutes: A law passed by a legislature. Trustee Model: An approach to representation in which in which the representative acts acording to the dictates of his / her own "good" judgement Chapter Eight Budget Formulation: The process ...
