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22 Cards in this Set
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Power
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Ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others
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Government
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A Formal organization that directs the political life of a society
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Authority
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Power that people perceive as legitimate rather than coercive
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Traditional Authority
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Power legitimized by respect for long-established cultural patterns
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Rational-Legal Authority
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Power legitimized by legally enacted rules and regulations
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Charismatic Authority
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Power legitimized by extraordinary personal abilities that inspire devotion and obedience
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Routinization of Charisma
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The transformation of charismatic authority into some combination of traditional and bureaucratic authority.
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Monarchy
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Political sstem in which a single family rules from generation to generation
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Democracy
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A political system that gives power to the people as a whole
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Authoritarianism
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A political system that denies the people participation in government
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Totalitarianism
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A highly centralized political system that extensively regulates people's lives
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Welfare State
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A system of government agencies and programs that provides benefits to the population
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Special Interest group
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People organized to address some economic or social issue
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Political action committee(PAC)
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An organization formed by a special-interest group, independent of political parties, to raise and spend money in support of political goals.
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Pluralist Model
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An analysis of politics that sees power as spread among many competing interest groups
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Power-Elite Model
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An analysis of politics that sees power as concentrated among the rich
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Political-Economy Model
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An analysis that explains politics in terms of the operation of a society's economic system.
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Political revolution
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The overthrow of one political system in order to establish another
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Terrorism
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Acts of violence or the threat of violence used as a political strategy by an individual or a group
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War
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Organized, armed conflict among the people of two or more nations, direct by their governments
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Military-Industrial Complex
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The close association of the federal government, the military and defense industries
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Nuclear Proliferation
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The acquisition of nuclear weapons technology by more and more nations
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