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AP American Government
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09/07/2007

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Term
Authority

ch.1 // p.5
Definition
The right to use power.
Term
Legitimacy


ch.1 // p.5
Definition
Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution.

What makes a law or constitution a source of right? ____________.
Term
Democracy


ch.1 // p.6
Definition
"The rule of many." -Aristotle

"The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competetive struggle for the people's vote."
-Joseph Schumpeter
Term
Direct or participatory democracy
Definition
A government in which all or most citizens participate directly.
Term
Power

ch.1 // p.4
Definition
The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions.
Term
Representative Democracy

ch.1 // p.6
Definition
A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote.

{This is the kind of government that the framers of the Constitution had in mind, as well as the kind of democracy that we have in the United States, today.}
Term
Elite

ch.1 // p.9
Definition
Persons who share a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power.
Term
Marxist View

ch.1 // p.9
Definition
Also called Socialism.

View that government is dominated by capitalists.

Founded by German philosipher, Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Term
Power Elite View

ch.1 // p.9
Definition
View that government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government.

This thoery was started by a famous mid-twentieth century American sociologist named c. Wright Mills.
Term
Bureaucratic View

ch.1 // p.9
Definition
View that government is dominated by appointed officials(those who staff and operate the gov. on a daily basis).

This theory was shaped primarily by the German scholar, Max Weber (1864-1920).
Term
Pluralist View

ch.1 // p.9
Definition
The belief that competition amond all affected interests shapes public policy.

//no single intellectual parent//
Term
Main 2 Questions about Government are...

ch.1
Definition
1. Who governs?

2. To what ends?
Term
What makes power righful?

ch.1 // p.5
Definition
Legitimacy is what makes power rightful.
Term
Which kind of democracy, Representative or Parcipitory, was practiced in Greek city-states?

ch.1 // p.6
Definition
Participatory or Direct Democracy.
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