American Government CLEP (ACE Activity Quizzes) Fully solved 2023

American Government CLEP (ACE Activity Quizzes) Fully solved 2023______________ is the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions. a. Influence b. Legitimacy c. Power d. Authority Power Which of the following describes the rightful use of power? a. Authority b. Influence c. Legitimacy d. Socialization Authority In the United States today, no government at any level would be considered legitimate if it were not in some sense ______________. a. Socialization b. Democratic c. Pluralistic d. Elitist Democratic Who wrote and spoke of democracy as being the "rule of the many"? a. Marx b. Aristotle c. Weber d. Jefferson Aristotle Which form of democracy was used by the Greek city-states and is used in some New England town meetings? a. Direct Democracy b. Representative Democracy c. Democratic Centralism d. Pluralism Direct Democracy The theory that a non-governmental elite makes most of the major decisions but that this elite is not composed exclusively, or even primarily, of corporate leaders is closely linked to the writings of which individual? a. C. Wright Mills b. Karl Marx c. Max Weber d. Robert Dahl C. Wright Mills The pluralist view of power suggests power is: a. concentrated in the hands of the wealthiest capitalists. b. concentrated in the hands of capitalists and military leaders. c. shared between media elites, key politicians and industrialists. d. so widely scattered no single elite has anything like a monopoly. So widely scattered no single elite has anything like a monopoly True or False: There are two great questions about politics: Who governs? To what ends? True True or False: People who exercise power always have the authority to do so. False True or False: The Framers of the Constitution used the word "democracy" instead of "reputation form of government." False True or False: The Framers of the Constitution thought that the "will of the people" was synonymous with the "common interest" or the "public good." False