Points to Remember

• Mills explains the elite rule in institutional terms.
• According to Levi Strauss consent is the basis of leadership.
• Mosca believed that the members of the elite should have superior qualities than the masses.
• The Marxian view regards the subject class regarding the ruling class to be legitimate as an indication of false class consciousness.
• Weber gave the constant sum concept of power.
• Pareto believed the European democracies to exemplify the rule of the fox.
• Developing nations are commonly governed by tutelany democracies.
• Societies without head are termed as acephalous.
• The kwakitul Indians take part in Potlatch which is a war of propery.
• Malinowski believed that reciprocity,systematic incidence ,publicity and ambition will be found to be the main factors in the binding machinery of primitive laws.
• Pareto believed that all elites gradually gain power.
• Anarchism represents an extreme form of individualism.
• A propounder of the matriarchal theory was Henry Maine.
• Engels expected society to banish the state machine to the museum of antiquities.
• According to Maclver the state alone can maintain law and order.
• The essentials of communism are found in communist manifesto.
• Proudhon is the author of 'What is property'.
• Nation is a territorial community.
• Every one ruling himself so as not to be a hindrance to others would denote the affairs in an ideal state.
• Sovereignty differentiates state from nation.
• Drey holds that there is no such thing as absolute independence even the state as a whole is not almighty.
• The legal sovereign is constituted by the president.
• According to Kohn the most important outward factor in the formation of nationalities is the state.
• MacIver regards identifying the social with political as the grossest of all confusions.
• Ethics is the inner morality of a person.
• Nation emphasizes the consciousness of unity among people.
• According to Malinowski self- interest determines the adherence to custom.
• Rossean believed that man gives in common all his powers to the general will.
• Laski suggests that the concept of sovereignty should be abandoned altogether.
• Lowie emphasizes the role of territory in the development of political institutions.
• Henry Maine has emphasized kinship as being the basis of primitive political system.
• According to Plato 'the best state is that which is nearest in virtue to the individual.
• The ancient and modern bureaucracies did not differ in principle of hierarchy.
• Legitimacy is the binding thread between power and authority.
• Weber viewed corporate group in relation to authority and termed it as verband.
• Destutt de Tracy first used the word ideology.
• Weber, Merton and Michels used the term bureaucracy.
• Manheim wrote the book ideology and utopia.
• Competition is interaction without social contact.
• Pareto gave the theory of circulation of elite.
• A system of government in which the real power is vested in the hands of an elected head of state is known as presidential form of government.
• A set of principles for the guidance of the courts in cases in which the accused has pleaded that he/she was insane at the time of the act is known as ceteries paribus.