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24 Cards in this Set
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A term used to describe three different political systems in which people are said to rule, directly or indirectly
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Democracy
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A political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy
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Direct or Participatory Democracy
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A theory that a few top leaders make the key decisions without reference to popular desires
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Elitist Theory
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A political system in which local citizens are empowered to govern themselves directly
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Community Control
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A political system in which those affected by a governmental program must be permitted to participate in the program's formulation
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Citizen Participation
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A North American approximation of direct or participatory democracy
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New England Town Meeting
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A theory that not one interest group consistently holds political power
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Pluralist Theory
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Individual who worried the new government he helped to create would be too democratic
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Hamilton
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A sociologist who emphasized the phenomenon of bureaucracy in explaining political development.
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Weber
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The ability of one person to cause another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions
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Power
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A sociologist who presented the idea of a mostly nongovernmental power elite
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Mills
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Structure of authority organized around expertise and specialization
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Bureaucracy
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An economist who defined democracy as the competitive struggle by political leaders for the people's vote.
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Schumpeter
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Term for the Greek city-state
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Polis
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An identifiable group of people with a disproportionate share of political power
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Elite (political)
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A relatively small political unit within which classical democracy was practiced
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City-State
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A political system in which the choices of the political leaders are closely constrained by the preferences of the peoples
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Majoritarian Politics
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A theory that appointed civil servants make the key governing decisions
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Bureaucratic Theory
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Power when used to determine who will hold government office and how government will behave
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Political Power
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A philosopher who defined democracy as the "rule of the many"
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Aristotle
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A theory that government is merely a reflection of underlying economic forces
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Marxist Theory
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The right to exercise political power
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Authority
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The widely-shared perception that something or someone should be obeyed
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Legitimacy
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Conferring political power on those selected by the voters in competitive elections.
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Representative Democracy
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