Exam 14: Power and Politics

In (the) ________ view, there are three sectors--the corporate rich, the executive branch of the government, and the military--that combine to form a power elite that makes all-important decisions.

The elitist views of societal power are similar to the two views of power held by ________.

Barlett and Steele emphasize the tactic of cluster voting used by an interest group as a technique to get favorable treatment from Congress.

When the institutions are patterned to produce prearranged results regardless of the personalities of the decision-makers, one may speak of________.

S. schools, churches, and families possess ideological power, which is used to indoctrinate the nation's citizenry to conservative values.

According to C. Wright Mills, the elite ________.

Both Mills and Domhoff saw the military as having much less power and being dominated by the corporate rich through the executive branch.

A factor that helped in the formation of the power elite was________.

Parenti argues that the interests of the powerful and the wealthy are served because of their influence over elected and appointed officials at all levels, through systemic imperatives, and through the ideological control of the masses.

In (the) ________ view, the dominant class is the uppermost social group (approximately 1% of the population), which owns a disproportionate amount of the country's wealth and contributes a disproportionate number of its members to the controlling institutions and key decision-making groups of the country.

Parenti believes that through ________ the institutions of society are patterned to produce prearranged results, regardless of the personalities of decision-makers.

The major difference between the views of Mills and Domhoff is that Domhoff has asserted the complete ascendancy of the upper class to the apex of ________.

________ is the ability to get what one wants from someone else; this can be achieved by force or by getting someone to think and believe in accordance with your interests.

The power elite is characterized by democratic tendencies.

The ________ model of power describes a pyramid of power with people at the apex controlling power.

The central focus of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration was toward social reform, not business recovery.

The pluralist view of who has power focuses on________.

In Domhoff's view, which of the following demonstrate(s) the impact of individuals and subgroups within the elite on the decision-making structure of the United States?

The result of this centralization of power is________.

Power sharing by different sectors of the population is a central idea of the pluralist view.