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Dec 6, 2014 · Giscard d'Estaing had read Lenoir's Excluded and on winning the election he immediately asked Lenoir to serve as his Minister of Social Action. For Lenoir, the excluded are those citizens who are separated from mainstream society because of factors like disability, mental illness and poverty.
- Definition of Power
- Dimensions of Power
- Power and Authority
- The Exercise of Power and Its Consequences
In its broadest sense, power is one’s ability to achieve the desired outcome. However, in political terms, power is the ability to influence another—the way one thinks or behaves—in a manner not of his or her own choosing (Lasswell 1936). It thus involves one’s capacity to get things done, and to make someone do something he or she would not otherw...
Power as decision-making Power is perceived as the influence on the content of decisions. Who decides, what to be made, and how to execute such decisions all involve power. Power as agenda-setting Power involves the ability to set or control political agenda, highlighting one at the exclusion of other issues. Power as thought control Power is seen ...
While power is defined as the ability to command obedience and is rested on coercion, most political systems have developed mechanisms by which people obey orders. Power is considered as authority when it is recognized as legitimate. Max Weber (1922) distinguished three types of authority: traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic. Power and aut...
Power defines social and political relationships. Who gets what, when, and how much are usually determined by power. From political systems characterized by democratic institutions or dictatorships, down to interpersonal relationships between and among individuals, the struggle for power is ever-present. In the system of governance, power relations...
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For (many) classical realists, power is constitutive of politics—world politics in particular. It is part of a theory of domination. It is, moreover, related to the idea of government, not understood in its steering capacity, but in what constitutes political order.
May 19, 2022 · “Power” will be preliminary defined as the status, or condition, enjoyed by someone who objectively has possibilities available and subjectively perceives them as such. However, we shall see that “objective” and “subjective” are not entirely appropriate terms.
Sep 22, 2017 · The main factor behind the transformations of the nation-state was the interplay between domestic and international power. Nationalism, as the ideological corollary of the nation-state, also transformed to reflect changes in the field of power.
- Konstantinos Kostagiannis
- 2018
May 19, 2022 · This book, employing an Arendtian approach to conceptual analysis, provides a more proper definition—power denotes the condition of having available possibilities and representing them as such—and examines its implications for the study of politics, both empirical and normative.
THE MEANING OF POWER In the history of philosophy, which is philosophy in its variety and continuity, the topic of power has appeared in many expressions and concealments, from the symbol of fire in Heraclitus and the definition of being as power in the Sophist to the elan vital in Bergson, causal efficacy in Whitehead, and disturbed freedom in ...