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Wilson Vocab 1
AP Government Wilson Textbook Vocabulary for Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Authority | The right to use power |
| Bureaucrats | Appointed officials who operate government agencies and large corporations |
| Legitimacy | What makes a law or a constitution a source of right |
| Bureaucratic Theory | A theory that appointed civil servants make the key governing decisions |
| Democratic Centralism | A form of democracy in which the true interests of the masses were discovered through discussion within the Communist Party, and then decisions were made under central leadership to serve those interests |
| Elite | An identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource |
| Majoritarian Politics | A political system in which leaders are constrained to follow closely the wishes of the people |
| Max Weber | A German historian and sociologist who criticized the theories of Karl Marx, arguing that all institutions have fallen under the control of large bureaucracies whose expertise is essential to the management of contemporary affairs |
| Pluralist Theory | A theory that holds that political resources are sufficiently divided among different kinds of elites, giving each relevant interest the chance to influence the outcome of decisions. |
| Power | The ability of one person to cause another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions |
| Power Elite | A political theory espoused by C. Wright Mills which holds that nongovernmental elite make most political decisions. |
| Democracy | A word used to describe at least three different political systems that each embody the principle of popular rule, in only in the interest of the people |
| Marxist Theory | The ideology espoused by Karl Marx which holds that government is a reflection of economic forces, primarily based on the pattern of ownership of the means of production |
| Political Power | Power used to determine who will hold government office and how the government will behave |
| Elitist Theory | The theory that a few top leaders make the key decisions without reference to popular desires |
| Representative Democracy | A political system in which political power is conferred on those selected by voters in competitive elections |
| Direct (Participatory) Democracy | A form of democracy in which all, or most, of the citizenry participate directly by either holding office or making policy |
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