Government and the Economy: Understanding Power and Authority

1. Chapter 13 Government and the Economy

2. What is power?

5. 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

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

17. The Changing Economy Global Economy– M.N.C.s 2 Developments 1. Deindustrialization: E-Commerce 2. Downsizing—Contingency Workforce

20. The End