ApEconWilsonChap1
Vocab in Chapter 1 of the AP Econ Wilson book
Terms
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- elite
- an identifiable group of persons who posses a disproportional share of some valued resource (can be power)
- majoritarian politics
- when elected officials are the delegates of the people, acting as the people would if a matter where put to popular vote.
- power
- the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions
- pluralist
- one who believes political resources are so scattered that there is no true elite
- direct democracy
- aka participatory democracy, in which citizens directly participate in government
- representative democracy
- a government whose officials are elected by the citizens
- democratic centralism
- "benevolent dictator"
- Ross Perot
- presidential candidate from 1990s in favor of a more direct democracy
- bureaucrats
- people who operate the government from day to day
- Marxists
- believe that whoever controls the economy will control the government
- authority
- the right to exercise power
- legitimacy
- what makes a law or constitution a source of rights
- formal authority
- authority vested in a governmental office
- democracy
- a government whose actions serve the true interests of people or if its citizens participate directly in government or if its citizens vote
- political authority
- authority because of a law or constitution