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ch 1 vocab
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Question | Answer |
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authority | right to influence |
bureaucrats | appointed officials who operate government agencies from day to day |
democracy | rule by the people. In the United States |
democratic centralism | The democratic aspect of this organizational method describes the freedom of members of the political party to discuss and debate matters of policy and direction |
direct or participatory democracy | Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly. |
elite | an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource. |
legitimacy | the belief among citizens that their government has the right to pass and enforce laws. |
Marxists | People who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political one. |
Pluralists | A person who holds two or more offices |
Power | the ability of one person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions. |
Representative Democracy | system of government which derives its authority from the people and governs according to the will of the majority |