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32 Cards in this Set
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Author, Bowling Alone. Social Capital Theorist.
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Robert Putnam
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Author, Who Rules America. Class Domination Theorist.
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William Domhoff
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Author, Power: A Radical View. Proponent of "three-dimensional" power.
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Steven Lukes
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Author: Political Sociology. Review of material.
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Orum and Dale
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Author: The Power Elite. Power Elite theory.
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C. Wright Mills
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Author: Habits of the Heart. Preoccupation with Tocqueville and Civil Society.
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Robert Bellah
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Author: Freedom Summer. Social movements.
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Doug McAdam
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Authors: Interest Group Society. "Updated" Pluralist Model.
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Berry and Wilcox
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Author: Who Governs? Pluralist theory.
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Robert Dahl
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Authors: Why Americans Don't Vote.
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Piven and Cloward
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A Definition of Power (Lukes)
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The capacity to bring about outcomes
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The Exercise Fallacy
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Power is the potential to act. It doesn't need to be exercised to exist.
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The Vehicle Fallacy
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Being powerful is not the means/resources of power. See: the USA in Vietnam.
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Power is between...
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Agents; it is relational, differential, and and directional.
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Authority
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Power accepted as legitimate by those subject to it. (Institutions; rules; routine.)
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Legitimacy
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Agreement of authority between rulers and ruled. Tacit agreement is best. Authority breaks down when lost.
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Charismatic Authority (Weber)
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Personal charm; strength of personality. Followers "believe."
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Traditional Authority (Weber)
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Tradition/custom.
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Rational-Legal Authority
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Rules/laws/codes. Bureaucracy.
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1-Dimensional Power (Lukes)
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Behavior. Decision-making. Key issues; overt conflict; interests expressed as policy preferences.
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2-Dimensional Power (Lukes)
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NON decision-making. Potential issues. Covert conflict. Grievances.
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3-Dimensional Power (Lukes)
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Control over political agenda. Latent conflict. "Real" interests. Internal constraints.
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Critiques of Lukes
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The dominated are always resisting (Prison study); The dominated consciously adjust their desires; repackaged Marxist "false consciousness"?
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Definition of The State
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An organization that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
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"Factions"
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James Madison's conception in Federalist #10 of splintering, selfish, naturally-occurring interest groups.
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Homo Civicus
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Dahl's ordinary citizens; reactionary, focused on individual concerns, stirred by crisis.
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Homo Politicus
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Dahl's political animal: tries to gain control through using and growing his political resources.
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"Distributed Inequality"
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Dahl's belief that political resources in the United States are distributed in a way that no one individual or group has an advantage in every resource. However: can't some resources be more important than others?
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The Power Elite's Three Circles
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Economic directorates; Political Chieftains; Military Warlords. Movement between spheres. Interlocking. Institutional focus. Lack of historical aristocracy.
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The Power Elite: Feeders, Setting
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Upper-class Social, Religious, Education Institutions instill homogenized worldview.
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Public vs Mass (Mills)
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Involved/Freedom to act/Many expressing opinions; ability to communicate and act on opinions. Versus Uninvolved, apathetic heaps of individuals, penetrated by agents of authority, constrained from expressing opinions; central control of communications, they receive opinions.
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Self-interest Rightly Understood
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Tocqueville's conception of Americans' expanded self-interest: Concern for communities/nations.
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