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The ability of one person to cause another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions
Power
Power that is used to determine who will hold government office and how government will behave
Political Power
The right to exercise political power
Authority
The widely-shared perception that somehing or someone should be obeyed
Legitimacy
Conferring political power on those selected by the voters in competitive elections
Representative Democracy
Term for the Greek city-state
Polis
An identifiable group of people with a disproportionate share of political power
Elite (Political)
A relatively small political unit within which classical democracy was practiced
City-state
A political system in which the choices of the political leaders are closely constrained by the preferences of the people
Majoritarian Politics
A philosopher who defined
democracy
as th e"rule of the many"
Aristotle
A theory that government is merely a reflection of underlying economic forces
Marxist Theory
A sociologist who presented the idea of a mostly nongovernment power elite
Mills
Individual who worried the new governmet he helped to create would be too democratic
Hamilton
A political system in which those affected by a government program must be permitted to participate in the program's formulation
Citizen Participation
A theory that no one interest group consistently hold political power
Pluralist Theory
Structures of authority organized around expertise and specialization
Bureaucracy
A theory that appointed civil servants make the key governing decisions
Bureaucratic Theory
A term used to describe three different political systems in which the peope are said to rule, directly or indirectly
Democracy
A political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy
Direct or Participatory Democracy
A theory that a few top leaders make the key decisions without reference to popular desires
Elitist Theory
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Chap 1 Vocab
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Key Terms for Ap-Government
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