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AP U.S. Government & Politics
Chapter 1
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History
10th Grade
09/06/2007

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Authority
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The right to use power.
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Bureaucratic View
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View that government is dominated by appointed officials.
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Democracy
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The rule of many.
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Direct or Participatory Government
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A government in which all or most citizens participate directly.
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Elite
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"Persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power."
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Legitimacy
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Political authority conferred by law or by a state or a national constitution.
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Marxist View
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View that gov't is dominated by capitalists.
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Pluralist View
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The belief that competition among all affected intrests shapes public policy.
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Power
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The ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first persons intentions.
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Power Elite View
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"View that government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government."
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Representative Democracy
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A gov't in which leaders make decsions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote.
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Rule of Many - describing democracy
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Aristotle
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Majoritarian Politics
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Leaders who are constrained by wishes of the public.
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According to the Marxist viewpoint who is in control of todays gov't?
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The gov't is a reflection of underlying economic forces. Ex. large oil companies
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Marxist View comes from
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the work of Karl Marx
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"The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which [leaders] acquire power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."
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Joseph Schumpeter.
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Which view doesn't have a single intellectual parent?
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Pluralistic View.
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Max Weber
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Considered a founder of the modern study of sociology.
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