A leader cannot have both legal-rational and charismatic authority.

Industrialization aided the development of liberal democracy.

The United States was founded on the basis of legal-rational authority, but it also contains elements of traditional and charismatic authority.

Totalitarian states are more oppressive of their citizens than are authoritarian states.

Some nations exist without states.

Power is a valuable resource in any society.

When a person has the legitimate right to use power, it is called coercion.

An important goal of a political party is to influence government policy.

Women are more likely to vote than men.

The power elite model is based on the idea that a large number of special interest groups controls society.

According to the pluralist model, democracy in the United States works as it was intended to work.

According to functionalism, the continuous use of force by a state is seldom necessary because every society has mechanisms for regulating conflict.

Conflict theorists argue that, even in a democracy, power will be held by the dominant few if all members of a society accept the ideology of the dominant group.

Too much pluralism in a society leads to poor leadership, a lack of coordination, and a lack of focus.

The pluralist model recognizes that some people in society have considerably more power than others.