Chapter 1
Terms
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- Power
- the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions.
- Authority
- the right to use power.
- Legitimacy
- political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or another person.
- Democracy
- a word used to describe at least three diffrent political systems.
- Democractic Centralism
- the true intrests of the people dicovered through discussion within a coucil and a desicion made under central leadership.
- Direct/participatory Democracy
- the "rule of many" citizens participate directly in holding office or making policy.
- Representative Democracy
- a form of democracy founded on the exercise of popular sovereignty by the people's representatives.
- Elite
- an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, $ or political power.
- Marxists
- people who belive those who control the economic system will control the political one.
- Bureaucrats
- appointed civil servants that run agencies on a day to day basis.
- Pluralist
- those who belive that competition among affected intersts shaped public policy.