AP GOV
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Federalist No. 10
- to protect from factions you need a large government instead of small, minimal governments ie states
- Federalist No. 51
- in order to maintain liberty, it is best that no governmental branch be involved with the appointment of the others. If the principle were rigorously appl
- Democracy
- The people are said to rule directly or indirectly
- Direct Democracy
- all or most citizens participate directly ie town meeting
- Elite
- peoples whos posses a dispropotionate share of some value
- Elitist Theory
- Those who r elite have their matters taken more serious
- Legitimacy
- Political authority confermed by law, public opionion, or constitution
- Majoritarian Politics
- almost everybody benifits from a policy and almost everybody pays for it
- Marxist Theory
- gov. is mearly a reflection of underlying economic forces primarily the pattern of ownership of the means of production
- Max Weber
- helped by deffining a state (Bureaucrate), they run the government
- Pluralist Theory
- Compition among all affected inerests shapes public policy COMPROMISE
- Political Power (Mills)
- a type of power held by a person in society IE head of state
- Power
- The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first persons desires
- Power Elite (Mills)
- The top leader controlls everything ie bush
- Representative Democracy
- leaders and representatives aquire political power by means of a competitive struggle for the persons vote