Key Terms (L5: State Power and Authority)

Question 1

Faces of power: First (intuitive definition):

Answer 1

power to force someone to do something they wouldn’t otherwise do

Question 2

Faces of power:Second (Agenda setting):

Answer 2

the ability to decide what gets talked about

Question 3

Faces of power: Third (Sociology of power):

Answer 3

ability to shape preferences and desires

Question 4

Pluralists

Answer 4

see political power as distributed across multiple decision makers

Question 5

elitists

Answer 5

see political power concentrated in hands of a few

Question 6

instrumental marxist

Answer 6

policy makers in government tend to “share common business/ class background, & the decisions will reflect their business/class interests.