What is the difference between power and authority?

What will be an ideal response?


Power is actual influence and authority is formal right of the institution.
Learning Objective: 1-5: Relate the different ways that representative government works.

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Distributive policies

a. take resources from one group and allocates them to a more disadvantaged group. b. tend to receive less public support than do redistributive policies. c. are exemplified by programs that help the poor. d. tend to receive more public support than do redistributive policies. e. are extensively used to regulate public safety and welfare in the United States.

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Nigeria has the largest __________ epidemic in West and Central Africa

a. Ebola b. HIV c. malaria d. cholera

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In a single-case experiment that is essentially an interrupted time series, the ability to determine that the treatment has an effect

a. requires that the participant understand that his or her behavior must change. b. requires that the experimenter must be able to predict what the behavior would have been without the treatment. c. requires that the mean of the pretreatment session be significantly lower than the mean of the posttreatment session. d. requires that the mean of all pretreatment sessions be significantly higher than the mean of all of the posttreatment sessions.

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In March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. organized a voting rights march from __________, where the Alabama police, under the authority of Governor George Wallace, beat the marchers with whips, nightsticks, and cattle prods

A) Montgomery to Selma B) Washington, D.C. to Selma C) Montgomery to Washington, D.C. D) Selma to Montgomery E) Selma to Washington, D.C.

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