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Power

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The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first persons intentions.

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Authority

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The right to use power

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Formal Authority

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An individual or institution appointed by a society and expected to advise or direct under specific conditions because of title.

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Legitimacy

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Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution.

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Democracy

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The rule of many

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Direct Democracy

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A government in which all or most citizens participate directly

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Representative Democracy

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A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for a popular vote.

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Constitutional Democracy

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A type of government characterized by limitations on government power spelled out in a constitution.

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Constitutionalism

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Is a form of political thought and action that seeks to prevent tyranny and to guarantee the liberty and rights of individuals on which free society depends

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Political Elite

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is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth or political power

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Karl Marx

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This man came up with the idea of communism/dialectic socialism that said that two classes have always battled against each other.

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Marxist view (capitalist elite)

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View that the government is dominated by capitalists.

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C. Wright Mills

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Believed that the most important policies are set by a loose coalition of three groups--Corporate leaders, top military officers, and a handful of key political leaders.

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Power Elite Model

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claims that a single elite, not a multiplicity of competing groups, decides the life-and-death issues for the nation as a whole, leaving relatively minor matters for the middle level and almost nothing for the common person.

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Max Weber

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Believed that all institutions, governmental and nongovernmental , have fallen under the control of large bureaucracies, whose expertise and specialized competence are essential to the management of contemporary affairs.

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Bureaucratic view

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Webers idea that government workers really control government.Government agencies will be dominated by those who operate them on a daily basis

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Pluralist view

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The belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy.

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Self Determination

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the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

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Popular Consent

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the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.

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Majority

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the greater number

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Plurality

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the largest number of votes in an election, even if it is not more than half the votes cast

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Ideology

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A consistent set of beliefs by groups/individuals

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Authoritarian

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A government that can do whatever it wants, without limits.

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Totalitarian

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A regime in which the government controls every facet of life.

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Dictatorship

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An absolute government in which one person holds all the power and uses it for his or her own self-interest.

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Hyperpluralism

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Democracy seen as a system of many groups pulling govt in many directions at the same time, causing gridlock ineffectiveness