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The policies of the United States of America comprise all actions taken by its federal government.The executive branch is the primary entity through which policies are enacted, however the policies are derived from a collection of laws, executive decisions, and legal precedents.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
A disconnect between "the power to set government policy" and political opinions of the general public has been noted by commentators and scholars (such as David Leonhardt). [87] The United States is "far and away the most countermajoritarian democracy in the world," according to Steven Levitsky. [88]
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Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Left–right political spectrum; Left-wing politics; Left-wing populism; Legal constitution; Legislative session; LGBTQ wing; Linguistic prescription; List of political metaphors; List of politically motivated renamings; Lobbying; Locust (ethnic slur) Logrolling; Lookism; Loss of supply; Low information voter; Lulism; Lustration; Lysenkoism
Slavery had been present in North America since colonial times, but it did not become a major political issue in the United States until the 1830s. [11] National political ideology was not as influential during this period, with sectional politics between the northern and southern states driving political activity. [ 12 ]
There has been multiple measurements of the political ideologies and policies of the states in the United States. Most measurements have found a significant shift towards cultural liberalism since 1970, while divergence in policies between the states has significantly increased since then. [1]