Political Institutions
This type of government is ruled by a single leader with total control.
Dictatorship
Max Weber identified these 3 types of authority.
traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational authority.
This social movement secured women's right to vote in 1920.
Suffrage movement
The ideology that prioritizes individual freedoms and minimal government intervention
Liberalism
The minimum voting age in the U.S.
18
The three branches of government in the U.S. are...
Legislative, executive, and judicial branches
The ability to get others to do what you want, even without force
Power
The type of social movement that seeks to completely overhaul society.
Revolutionary movement
The belief in a classless society and collective ownership of resources
The system where citizens vote directly on policy issues.
Democracy
This political system combines private enterprise with government regulation
Mixed economy
The concept that power is distributed among many groups in society
Pluralism
The theory that suggests social movements emerge when people perceive a gap between expectations and reality.
Deprivation Theory
This ideology values tradition and resists rapid change
Conservatism
The theory that suggests people vote based on self-interest.
Rational choice theory
The term for a state that has no separation between religion and government.
Theocracy
This term describes the dominance of one social group over others
Hegemony
Alternative movement
The term for the belief that racial, gender, or economic inequality should be actively addressed.
Progressivism
The term for a large group of people who share similar political beliefs.
Political party
This political theorist wrote The Power Elite, arguing that a small group controls politics.
C. Wright Mills
Antonio Gramsci argues that this type of power is maintained through cultural norms.
Cultural hegemony
Martin Luther King Jr.
The political philosophy associated with Karl Marx
Marxism
This type of election allows citizens to remove an elected official before their term is up.
Recall election