Exam 7 Questions (Chapters 21 And 15) First Set

Front 1

Describe 5 "tricks of the trade" used in propaganda

Back 1

1- testimonials- get someone famous to say something about cause/ movement.
2- plain folks- associate yourself with the "common man".
3- card stockings- Say only good things about your positions.
4- band wagon- look how much support I have, you should support me to. jump on board.
5- media is not neutral

Front 2

List the 5 stages of social movement

Back 2

1- Initial unrest and agitation
- people are upset and seek change.
- leader arise
2- resource mobilization
- acquire office, equipment, peoples time, money
3- organization stage
- set up your division of labor
4- institutionalization
- set up the bureaucracy
5- organization decline
- maintaining the bureaucracy becomes the main focus
- collective excitement dies and people leave the movement.

Front 3

Distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate power

Back 3

Power- the ability to get your way
-Illegitimate
- base on coercion
- people don't accept as just
-legitimate
- based on authority
- people see as just

Front 4

Identify and describe the three types of authority.

Back 4

1-Traditional authority
- based on custom
- leader is the law
<transition of power- we know who the next leader will be.
2- legal-rational
- based on written rules
- leader is subject to the law
- don't know who next leader will be, but know how they will be choose.
3- charismatic
- based on outstanding personality traits
- leader is the law
< transition- appoint next leader
- doesn't always work
- put rules into place on how to choose next leader.

Front 5

Distinguish between the four types of government in terms of where political power is located.

Back 5

1- extent of government
- totalitarian
- government controls everything
-libertarian
- government limited to national defense
2- anarchism
- no overlying government
- power resides in self governing groups
3- autocracy
- power resides in a single individual ex: monarchy

Front 6

Type's of representative democracy

Back 6

1- "winner take all"
- must win an election to get representation/ -2 party system.
-usually "centrist" politics.
2- proportional representation
- representation is based on the % of votes a party receives.
- multiple party system
- allows for more "radical" politics reactionary
* bonus
-tends to have coalition governments.
-coalition governments tend to be unstable.

Front 7

Five factors that predict who is likely to vote.

Back 7

Factor more likely to vote
-age - older
-level of income - high incomes
-sex - woman
-marital status - -married
-levels of education - higher level

Front 8

distinguish between alienated and apathetic voters.

Back 8

1-apathetic voters
- feel my one vote doesn't mean anything
- doesn't matter who is elected everything is the same
2- alienated voters
- elections are rigged
-don't get much form the political system

Front 9

explain pluralism.

Back 9

-power is diffused among many interest groups
- makes it hard for one group to become dominant
- to get what you want groups must negotiate and compromise.

Front 10

explain "power elite"

Back 10

-power resides in the top economic, political, and military leaders.
-economic leaders are the most important.

Front 11

explain ruling class.

Back 11

top 1% in terms of wealth