PO111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Pacific Coast Railway, Charismatic Authority, Pacific Scandal
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Power: the ability to carry out your will in spite of resistance. Micropolitics: the exercise of power in everyday life. Macropolitics: power over a large group, society. Politics: the process in which individuals and groups act to promote their interests, often in conflict with others; the institutionalized system by which a society distributes power, sets its agenda, and makes decisions) Government: formal organization that has the legal and political authority to regulate the relationships among members within a society and between societies. Authority (weber"s definition): power that people accept as legitimate (i. e. , legitimate domination) The more legitimate the power, the more stable the government. Coercion: power that we are forced to accept, but we do not consider just or legitimate; morally wrong. The state (weber"s definition): the political entity that possesses a legitimate monopoly over the use of force within a given territory. Marx"s definition: the state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie.
