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GAP AP test
Question | Answer |
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bureaucratic view | the theory that a large, complex organization composed of appointed officials who operate government agencies from day to day |
democracy | a term used to describe a political system in which the peopl are said to rule, directly or indirectly |
direct democracy | a political system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either hiolding office or making policy |
elite | an identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some vaued resource such as money or political power |
legitimacy | political authority conferred by law, public opinion or constitution |
marxist view | the view of people who believe that those who ontrol the econoimc system also ctonrol the political one |
pluralist view | the view that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy |
power elite view | gov is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside the government and enjoy great advantages in wealth, status, or organizational position |
representative democracy | 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 gov used by nations that are called democratic |
majoritorian politics | the politics of policy-making in which almost everybody benefits from a policy and amost everybody pays for it |
marxists | they believe in the political and economic philosophy in which the concept of clas struggle plays a key role in understanding society's development |
authoritarian | favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom (non-democracy) |