| A | B |
|---|
| Authority | The right to use power |
| Bureacratic View | View that government is dominated by appointed officals |
| Democracy | The rule of manuy |
| Direct(particpatory) Democracy | A government in which all or most citizens participate directly |
| Elite | Persons who poessess a dispropartionate share of some valueed resource like money or power |
| Legitimacy | Political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution |
| Marxist View | View that government is dominated by capitalist |
| Power Elite View | View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside the government |
| Pluralist View | The belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy |
| Power | The ability of one person to cause another person to act in accordance with the first persons intentions |
| Power Elite | A power theory espoused by C Wright Mills which holds that an elite corparate leaders, top military officers, and key political leaders make most political decisions |
| Representative Democracy | A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitve struggle for the popular vote |
