1. Government and the Economy
Chapter 13
Government and the Economy

2. What is power?

5. Political Power – Types of Government
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. Political Behavior in USA Political Parties
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