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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.

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