Government and the Economy

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Chapter 13

• Government and the Economy

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• What is power?

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• What is authority?
• Max Weber Traditional Authority
• Legal Rational Authority
• Charismatic Authority
• Political Power Types of Government
• 1. Representative Democracy
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Parliamentary System
• Democratic Republic Presidential

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• 2. Totalitarian Governments Authoritarian
• Political Power in USA
• Political Behavior in USA
• Political Parties
• Electoral participation - apathy

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• Interest Group Lobbying
• Special Interest Groups
• Public Interest Groups
• Political Action Committees
• The Mass Media

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Political Power

• The Pluralist Perspective Riesman
• Political Power dispersed and distributed
• Veto Groups or Interest Groups
• The Power Elite Perspective C. Wright Mills
• Power in the hands of the power elite
• Economic elite
• Military
• Executive Branch
• Power sharing is triumvirate

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• The Instrumentalist Perspective Domhoff
• Government, the instrument of the upper class
• Pluralism Below
• The Structuralist Perspective
• Political power and government officials cater to
  the demands of capitalist corporate economy

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• The Changing Economy
• Global Economy M.N.C.s
• 2 Developments
• 1. Deindustrialization
• E-Commerce
• 2. DownsizingContingency Workforce

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• The End

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