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| the ability to carry out your will, even over the resistance of others |
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| the exercise of poweri n everyday life, such as deciding who is going to do the housework or control the TV remote |
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| the exercise of large-scale power, the government being the most common example |
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| power that people consider legitimate, as rightly exercised over them; also called legitimate power |
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| power that people do no accept as rightly exercised over them; also called illegitimate power |
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| a political entity that claims monopoly on the use of violence in some particular territory; commonly known as a country |
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| armed resistance designed to overthrow and replace a government |
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| authority based on custom |
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| authority based on law or written rules and regulationsl also called bureaucratic authority |
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| authority based on an individual's outstanding traits, which attract followers |
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| routinization of charisma |
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| the transfer of authority from a charismastic figure to either a traditional or a rational-legal form of authority |
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| an independent city whose power radiates outward, bringing the adjacent area under its rule |
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| a form of government headed by a king or queen |
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| a system of government in which authority derives from the people; the tern comes from two Greek words that translate literally as "power to the people" |
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| a form of democracy in which the eligible voters meet together to discuss issues and make their decisions |
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| a form of democracy in which voters elect representatives to govern and make decisions on their behalf |
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| the concept that birth (and residence) in a country impart basic rights |
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| the idea that everyone has the same bsaic rights by virtue of being born in a country (or by immigrating and becoming a naturalized citizen |
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| a form of government in which power has been seized by an individual |
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| a form of government in which power is held by a small group of indivivuals; the rule of the many by the few |
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| a form of government that exerts almost total control over people |
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| proportional representation |
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| an electoral system in which seats ina lefislature are divided according to the proportion of votes each political party recieves |
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| a political party that represents marginal ideas |
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| a political party that represents the center of political opinion |
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| a government in which a country's largest party aligns itself with one or more smaller parties |
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| indifference and inaction on the part of individuals or groups with respect to the political process |
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| a group of people who support a particular issue and who can be mobilized for political action |
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| people who influence legislation on behalf of their clients |
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| political action committee (PAC) |
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| an organization formed by one or more special-interst groups to solicit and spend funds for the prupose of influencing legislation |
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| a condition of lawlessness or political disorder caused by the absence or collapse of governmental authority |
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| the diffusion of power among many interest groups that prevents any single group from gaining control of the government |
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| the separation of poweres among the three branches of U.S. government-lefislative, executive, and judical-so that each is able to nulligy the actions of the other two, thus preventing the domination of any single branch |
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| C. Wright Mills' term for the top people in U.S. corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions |
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| another term for the pwer elite |
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| armed conflict betweennations or politically distinct groups |
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| the act or process of reducing people to objects that do not deserve the treatment accorded humans |
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| a strong identity with a nation, accompanied by the desire for that nation to be dominant |
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