Authority and the State

Question 1

Power relations among people or other social actors

Answer 1

Politics

Question 2

Justifiable right to exercise power

Answer 2

Authority

Question 3

Authority that rests on the personal appeal of an individual leader

Answer 3

Charismatic authority

Question 4

Authority that rests on appeals to the past of traditions

Answer 4

Traditional authority

Question 5

Authority based on legal, impersonal rules; the rule rules

Answer 5

Legal-rational authority

Question 6

Clear, rule-governed procedures used repeatedly for decision making

Answer 6

Routinization

Question 7

Ever-expanding process of ordering or organizing

Answer 7

Rationalization

Question 8

Legal-rational organization or mode of administration that governs with reference to formal rules and roles and emphasizes meritocracy

Answer 8

Bureaucracy

Question 9

Process of breaking up work into specific delimited tasks

Answer 9

Specialization

Question 10

Methods of labor management introduced by Fredric Winslow Taylor to streamline the processes of mass production in which each worker repeatedly performs one specific task

Answer 10

Taylorism

Question 11

Society that assigns social status, power, and economic rewards on achievement not ascribed personal attributes or favoritism

Answer 11

Meritocracy

Question 12

An experiment devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram to see how far ordinary people would go to obey a scientific authority figure

Answer 12

Milgram experiment

Question 13

Ability to carry out one’s own will despite resistance

Answer 13

Power

Question 14

Probability that a command with specific content will be obeyed by a given group of people

Answer 14

Domination

Question 15

As defined by Max Weber, a human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory

Answer 15

State

Question 16

Use of force to get others to do what you want

Answer 16

Coercion

Question 17

Although the state’s authority derives form the implicit threat of physical force resorting to physical coercion strips the state of all legitimate authority

Answer 17

Paradox of authority

Question 18

System in which each state is recognized as territorially sovereign by fellow states

Answer 18

International state system

Question 19

System in which the state is responsible for the well-being of its citizens

Answer 19

Welfare state

Question 20

Rights guaranteed to each-law abiding citizen in a nation-state

Answer 20

Citizenship rights

Question 21

Right guaranteeing a citizen’s personal freedom from interference

Answer 21

Civil rights

Question 22

Rights guaranteeing a citizen’s ability to participate in politics

Answer 22

Political rights

Question 23

Rights guaranteeing a citizen’s protection by the state

Answer 23

Social rights

Question 24

First dimension- Different agendas clash, conflict results, one side prevails
Second dimension- Different agendas clash, one side is convinced it’s a losing battle
Third dimension- Different agendas clash, one side is shaped by the desires of social actors

Answer 24

Lukes’ Three-Dimensional Power

Question 25

Use of military or economic force to influence behavior

Answer 25

Hard power

Question 26

System of government wherein power theoretically lies with the people

Answer 26

Democracy

Question 27

Form of government that restricts the right to political participation to a small group or even to a single individual

Answer 27

Dictatorship

Question 28

Study of strategic decisions made under conditions of uncertainty and interdependence

Answer 28

Game theory

Question 29

Difficult in organizing large groups because of the tendency of some individuals to freeload or slack off

Answer 29

Collective action problem

Question 30

Action that benefits a group but does not directly benefit the individual performing the action

Answer 30

Altruism

Question 31

Organization that seeks to gain power in a government

Answer 31

Political party

Question 32

Organization that seeks to gain power in government and influence policy without campaigning for direct election or appointment to office

Answer 32

Interest group

Question 33

Any activity that has the intent or effect of influencing government action

Answer 33

Political participation