Practice question · True or false
Easton's definition of the political system is the authoritative allocation of values for a society.
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- Three parts of the phrase are doing separate work.
- Authoritative, allocation, and for a society.
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True
Why
True, and each word earns its place. Authoritative means binding rather than merely influential; allocation means distributing scarce things, symbolic as well as material; for a society means collectively rather than privately. Strip any one and the definition stops distinguishing politics from advertising, economics or private preference.
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