| A | B |
|---|
| When one persom causes another to act in accordance with the first person's intentions | Power |
| Power when used to determine who will hold government office and how government will behave | Political Power |
| The Right to exercise political power | Authority |
| The widely-shared perception that something or someone should be obeyed | Legitimacy |
| Conferring political power on those selected by the voters in competitive elections | Representative democracy |
| An identifiable group of people with a disproportionate share of political power | Elite(political) |
| A relatively small political unit within which classical democracy was practiced | City-state |
| Political system in which the choices of the political leaders are constrained by the preferences of the people | Majoritarian politics |
| A philosopher who defined democracy as the "rule of the many" | Aristotle |
| A therory that government is merely a reflection of underlying economic forces | Marxist theory |
| A sociologist who presented the idea of a mostly nongovernmental power elite | Mills |
| Sociologist who emphasized the phenomenon of bureaucracy in explaining political developments | Weber |
| A political system in which loacal citizens are empowered to govern themselves directly | Community control |
| A political system in which those affected by a governmental program must be permitted to participate in the program's formulation | Citizen participation |
| A theory that no one interest group consistently holds political power | Pluralist theory |
| Structures of authority organized around expertise and specialization | Bureaucracy |
| Economist who defined democracy as the competitive struggle by political leaders for the people's vote | Schumpeter |
| A theory that appointed civil servants make the key governing decisions | Bureaucratic theory |
| Term used to describe three different political systems in which the people are said to rule, directly or indirectly | Democracy |
| Political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy | Direct or participatory democracy |
| Theory that a few top leaders make the key decisions without reference to popular desires | Elitist theory |
