POG 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dependency Theory, Liberal Democracy, Modernization Theory

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Joerg Wittenbrinck

Document Summary

These outputs then travel back to the inputs of people in the community and the cycle starts again with them criticizing what state institutions need to improve on. Power: influencing people to do what they would have otherwise not done before to achieve an objective. It is the relationship between groups and individuals. ie) your boss can persuade you to vote for a certain candidate during elections by telling you you"re going to get a promotion for doing so. People distinguish power as the ability to force a specific decisions and influence to affect others behaviors. Different types of power: ability to affect decisions, ability to ensure no issues arise, ability to affect dominant ideas of society. Charismatic authority: assumption that leader has supernatural qualities. Traditional authority: customs establishing right of a person to rule. Common good: what is good for the entire political community so how prosperous and sustainable the political system is.