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| What are the two great questions about politics? |
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| Who governs and to which ends |
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| What is questionable about authority? |
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| What is questionable about authority? |
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| What was Aristoles philosophy? |
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| "rule of many" (direct or participatory democracy) |
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| What is democratic centralism? |
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| Claim of democracy from a central group of people based on the citizen's wants |
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| What is direct or participatory democracy? |
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| everyone votes on every issue |
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| What is representative democracy? |
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| elected official chosen by public to vote on matters |
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| What are the 4 theories of who should govern? |
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| Marxists, elites, bureaucrats, and pluralists |
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| What is the Marxists theory? |
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| Those who control the economic system will contorl the poltical one |
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| What is the elites theory? |
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| Few top leaders (not all from business) shoud make hte key decisions without reference to public views |
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| What is the bureaucrats' theory? |
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| Appointed civil servants should run things |
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| What is the pluralists' theory? |
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| Competition among affected interest should shape public policy |
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| What are the justifications of representative democracy? |
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-direct democracy is impratical
-ppl make unwise decisions based on emotions |
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| What type of democracy did the Framers favor? |
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| What does direct democracy minimize? |
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| The abuse of power by unfair popular majority or self-serving office holders |
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| What is majoritarian politics? |
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| When leaders are made to follow the wishes of the ppl very closely |
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| What are most people holding poltical power in the US today (race, class,age,religion)? |
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| middle class, middle age, white Protestant males |
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| Who was eligible to make participate in government in Ancient Greece? |
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| free adult male property holders |
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| Why did the Framers oppose democracy? |
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| Because ppl would be unable to mae wise decisions |
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| How many policies does majoritarian politics affect? |
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| How many classes are there in the Marxist theory and what are they? |
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| 2; capitalists and workers |
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| In C. Wright Mills' theory how many classes are there and what are they? |
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| 3; corporate leaders, military officers and key politicans |
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| Who does Weber include in his group of pwer elites? |
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| What is pluralists view on elites? |
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| There are many but none of them have complete control |
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| The AFL-CIO leaders pushed Congress for what? |
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| the passage of certain civil rights bills |
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| Which is harder to discover: who weild power or who did what? |
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| How would the Soviet Union define authority? |
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| as a government that would serve the "true interests" of the ppl, whether those people directly affected the making of decision or not |
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| How do individuals acquire power through representative democracy? |
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| What is not a concern in direct democracy? |
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| that the majority opinion would go unnoticed |
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| C. Wright Mills is best known for his works dealing with what? |
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| What did Weber think about the dominant social and political fact of modern times? |
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| that all institutions have fallen under the control of large bureaucracies |
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| American foreign policy alternates between what two things? |
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| intervention and isolationism |
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| The Civil Aeornautics Board inthe 1970s worked for their agencies to be what? |
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| What type of relationships does power deal with? |
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