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power
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ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions
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authority
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the right to use power
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legitimacy
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political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or constitution
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democracy
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a term used to descibe a political system in which the people are said to rule, directly or indirectly
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direct or participatory democracy
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a political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy (like town meetings in which citizens vote on major issues
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representative democracy
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a political system in which leaders and representatives acquire political power by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote. This is the form of government used by nations that are called democratic.
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elite
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an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource-- such as money or political power
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Marxists
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people who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political one
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bureaucrats
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the appointed officials who operate government agencies from day to day
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pluralist
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a theory that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy
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