Chapter 15

Question 1

Micropolitics

Answer 1

the exercise of power in everyday life

Question 2

Macropolitics

Answer 2

the exercise of large scale power over a large group

Question 3

Politics

Answer 3

the process of establishing leadership through power, authority and coercion

Question 4

Power

Answer 4

the ability to get your way in spite of the resistance of others

Question 5

Authority

Answer 5

have three forms: traditional, rational-legal and charismatic. Authority is legitimized power. It permits legitimized violence

Question 6

Coercion

Answer 6

power that people do not accept as just

Question 7

Traditional authority

Answer 7

based on custom and declines with industrialization

Question 8

Rational-legal authority

Answer 8

based on written rules and essential in bureaucracies

Question 9

Charismatic authority

Answer 9

based on personal abilities and qualities

Question 10

Monarchies

Answer 10

king or queen who pass rules to heairs

Question 11

Democracies

Answer 11

a system of govt in which authority derives fro the people

Question 12

Dictatorships

Answer 12

an individual who dictates his or her will onto the people

Question 13

Oligarchies

Answer 13

a dictatorship run by a small group of people

Question 14

Lobbyists

Answer 14

people who are paid to influence legislation on behalf of their clients

Question 15

PAC

Answer 15

organization which solicits contributions from like-minded donors for the purpose of influencing legislation

Question 16

Model of Countervailing forces

Answer 16

competing power sectors may form coalitions to prevent the uncontrolled expansion of another sector

Question 17

Wright MIll’s model of power in the US

Answer 17

the top corporate, military and political leaders

Question 18

State

Answer 18

a political entity that class monopoly on the use of violence in some particular territory

Question 19

Totalitarian

Answer 19

a form of govt that exerts almost total control over the people

Question 20

War

Answer 20

armed conflict between nations or politically distinct groups, although common, war is not universal, nations go to war for a variety of reasons

Question 21

Terrorism

Answer 21

with hatred that spans generations and with opposing groups escalating hostilities. To kill, kidnap, bombing, murder and threat

Question 22

Cost of war

Answer 22

trillions of dollars, millions of lives, suffering and hardships, fear and paranoia of the masses, the end of mankind

Question 23

Biological Terrorism

Answer 23

thinking the unthinkable, the bomb is not the only weapon of mass destruction, biologicals could kill millions in days, such weapons are possible even for the poorer nations

Question 24

Globalization of capitalism

Answer 24

worldwide flow of information, capital and goods

Question 25

Democrats

Answer 25

more liberal, more associated with the working class

Question 26

Republicans

Answer 26

conservative, associate with the wealthier

Question 27

Libertarians

Answer 27

seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association, and the primacy of individual judgment.

Question 28

Reform Party

Answer 28

is a moderate, centrist and populist party that sits in the center of the political spectrum. It has moderate fiscal and economic platforms mixed with strong calls for ethics and electoral reform based on populist beliefs

Question 29

Power Elite

Answer 29

those who rule the US, the top people in the leading corporations, most powerful generals of armed forces and the certain elite politicians

Question 30

Top Corporates

Answer 30

Most powerful of powerful elite

Question 31

Military

Answer 31

part of the power elite

Question 32

Political leaders

Answer 32

part of the power elite

Question 33

government

Answer 33

governing body of a nation

Question 34

Congress

Answer 34

legislative body of the country

Question 35

Legislators

Answer 35

the people who make the laws and they also support interest groups

Question 36

Pluralism

Answer 36

plurality society has many parts and the diffusion of power among interest groups prevents any one group from controlling the govt