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| 7308768686 | Power | Ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions |  | 0 |
| 7308768687 | Authority | The right to use power |  | 1 |
| 7308768688 | Legitimacy | Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution |  | 2 |
| 7308768689 | Democracy | A term used to describe three political systems in which the people are said to rule directly or indirectly. |  | 3 |
| 7308768690 | Representative democracy | A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote |  | 4 |
| 7308768691 | Elite (political) | A person (or group) who possesses a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money, prestige, expertise, or political power |  | 5 |
| 7308768692 | Class view | government is dominated by Capitalists |  | 6 |
| 7308768693 | Elitist theory | Mills; View that government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside the government |  | 7 |
| 7308768694 | Bureaucratic view | View that government is dominated by appointed officials |  | 8 |
| 7308768695 | Pluralist view | A theory that no one interest group consistently holds power.Competition among all affected interests shapes public policy |  | 9 |
| 7308768696 | Majoritarian Politics | A political system in which the choices of the political leaders are closely constrained by the preferences of the people. |  | 10 |
| 7308768697 | Aristotle | A philosopher who defined democracy as the "rule of the many'. | 11 | |
| 7308768698 | New England Town Meeting | A North American Approximation of direct democracy | 12 | |
| 7308768699 | Marxist Theory | A theory that government is merely a reflection of underlying economic forces. | 13 | |
| 7308768700 | Hamilton | An individual who worried that the new government he helped create would be too democratic | 14 | |
| 7308768701 | City-state | A relatively small political unit within which classical democracy was practiced. | 15 | |
| 7308768702 | Bureaucracy | Structures of authority organized around expertise and specialization. | 16 | |
| 7308768703 | Direct or Participatory Democracy | A political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy. | 17 | |
| 7308768704 | Political Power | Power when used to determine who will hold office and how government will behave. | 18 | |
| 7308768705 | Weber | A sociologist who emphasized the phenomenon of bureaucracy in explaining political developments | 19 |
