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| | THE STATE, POLITICAL SYSTEM, AND SOCIETY |
 | | Or, as in the United States, the mass may have the power to control the elite through the right to elect or reject their incumbency and by opposition to elite-policies, as through interest groups. |
 | | The United States comprises more a libertarian system, but increasingly is oriented in the totalitarian direction as the modern welfare state and the political elites, with their mixed present and future goals, intervene in the activities of all groups. |
 | | In summary, I have continued to emphasize power as the basis for social relations and, particularly in dealing with individuals in their structures of expectations at the societal level, three kinds of power balances: exchange, authoritative, and coercive. |
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