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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.

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