Across
- 3. the rights guaranteeing a citizen’s ability to participate in politics, including the right to vote and the right to hold an elected office
- 5. the rights guaranteed to each law-abiding citizen in a nation-state
- 6. power attained through the threat of coercive action
- 7. the rights guaranteeing a citizen’s personal freedom from interference, including freedom of speech and the right to travel freely
- 9. as defined by Weber, “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”
- 15. the difficulty in organization large groups due to the tendency of some individuals to “slack off”; aka the “freeloader problem”
- 19. any activity that has the intent or effect of influencing government action
- 20. the rights guaranteeing a citizen’s protection by the state
- 23. a legal-rational organization or mode of administration that governs with reference to formal rules and roles that emphasizes meritocracy
- 25. an organization that seeks to gain power in a government, generally by backing candidates for office who subscribe to the organization’s political ideals
- 26. a system in which the state is responsible for the well-being of its citizens
- 27. the methods of labor management introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor to streamline the processes of mass production in which each worker repeatedly performs one specific task
- 28. an organization that seeks to gain power in government and influence policy without campaigning for direct election or appointment to office
- 29. the probability that a command with specific content will be obeyed by a given group of people
- 31. the study of strategic decisions made under conditions of uncertainty and interdependence
- 32. power attained through the use of cultural attractiveness rather than the threat of coercive action
- 33. the use of force to get others to do what you want
Down
- 1. authority based on legal, impersonal rules; the rules rule
- 2. although the state’s authority derives from the implicit threat of physical force, resorting to physical coercion actually ends up stripping the state of all legitimate authority
- 4. the process of breaking up work into specific, delimited tasks
- 8. a system in which each state is recognized as territorially sovereign by fellow states
- 10. authority that rests on appeals to the past or traditions
- 11. an action that benefits a group but does not directly benefit the individual performing the action
- 12. authority that rests on the personal appeal of an individual leader
- 13. the justifiable right to exercise power
- 14. a society where status and mobility are based on individual attributes, ability and achievement
- 16. an experiment devised in 1961 by a Yale psychologist to see how far ordinary people would go to obey a scientific authority figure
- 17. power remains among people or other social actors
- 18. an ever-expanding process of ordering and organizing
- 21. a form of government that restricts the right to political participation to a small group or even to a single individual
- 22. the clear, rule-governed procedures used repeatedly for decision making
- 24. the ability to carry out one’s own will despite resistance
- 30. a system of government wherein power theoretically lies with the people; citizens are allowed to vote in elections, speak freely, and participate as legal equals in social life