 | Term | Definition |
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Power |
the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions. |
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Authority |
the right to use power. |
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Legitimacy |
political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or another person. |
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Democracy |
a word used to describe at least three diffrent political systems. |
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Democractic Centralism |
the true intrests of the people dicovered through discussion within a coucil and a desicion made under central leadership. |
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Direct/participatory Democracy |
the "rule of many" citizens participate directly in holding office or making policy. |
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Representative Democracy |
a form of democracy founded on the exercise of popular sovereignty by the people's representatives. |
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Elite |
an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, $ or political power. |
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Marxists |
people who belive those who control the economic system will control the political one. |
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Bureaucrats |
appointed civil servants that run agencies on a day to day basis. |
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Pluralist |
those who belive that competition among affected intersts shaped public policy. |
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