Elite, Us branches, Final exam help

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Short Answer Section of the Final Exam

Answer each of the following questions with a sentence or sentences (as appropriate). Wherever relevant, be sure to indicate the sources for your answers, ie, the relevant page number from the course textbook. Also, check spelling and grammar. 

(1) What is an elite?

(2) Referring in a detailed and specific way to a relevant aspect of either US political institutions, personnel or processes, illustrate how US democracy can be considered elitist.

(3) Which branch of US national government (legislative, executive, bureaucratic, or judicial) is the most elitist, in your view? Explain. In answering, refer to at least two specific aspects of the branch you have chosen and try, as much as possible, not to repeat things from previous answers.

(4) What is circulation of elites? What is a counter-elite?

(5) Drawing at least two relevant details from a reliable internet source of biographical information on Obama and relevant aspects of the concepts you discussed in #4 above, discuss whether Barack Obama’s presidency exemplifies a revolutionary change in US elites or whether it exemplifies the circulation of elites. 


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(1) What is an elite?
An elite is a select part of powerful people who govern a disproportionate amount
of wealth and political power in social institutions.
(2) Referring in a detailed and specific way to a relevant aspect of either US political
institutions, personnel or processes, illustrate how US democracy can be considered
elitist.
US democracy is characterized by elitism. The elected representatives make laws
and order in the society. Notably, elites within various groups rally with the use of their
respective forces to manipulate the representatives who hold the...


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