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Authority
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the right to use power
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Bureaucrats
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the appointed officals who opperate government agencies from day to day
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democracy
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a term used to describe a political system in which the people are said to rule, directly or indirectly
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direct or participatory democracy
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a political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy. The town meeting, in which citizens vote on major issues is an example of particaptory democracy
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elite
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an indentifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource-such as money or political power
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legitimacy
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political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or constitution
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marxists
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people who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political one
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pluralist
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a theory that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy
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power
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the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions
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representative democracy
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a political system in which leaders and representatives acquire political power by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote. This is the form of government used by nations that are called democractic.
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