AP Government Chapter 1 Flashcards

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