1878533029     

2nd ed.

London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (497 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-5296-1311-7

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A coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power which have been advanced within the social sciences.

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Intro -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Frameworks of Power Revisited -- Antecedents -- Paradoxes of power -- Power theory: legislators and interpreters -- Power and agency in the 'Community Power Debate' -- Power and intention -- Non-decision, mobilization of bias and the two faces of power -- Power and three dimensions: a radical view -- Dimensions of power and ordinary language -- Agency and structure in the analysis of power -- Dominant ideology and disciplinary power -- Circuits of power -- From a history of the past to a history of the present -- Conclusion -- 2 Power: Traditional Roots, Modern Problems -- Introduction -- Hobbes -- Hobbes' myth -- Hobbes' choice and its conceptual extension -- Machiavelli: the contrast with Hobbes -- Metaphors for moderns: Hobbes and Machiavelli -- Conclusion -- 3 Political Community, Methodological Procedures and the Agency Model -- Introduction -- Metaphorical continuities -- Classical elitism -- Floyd Hunter and the community power elite -- Dahl's methodological challenge to contemporary elitism -- Dahl's critique of the ruling elite model -- Newton's critique of the pluralist model -- Conclusion -- 4 The Power of Intention -- Introduction -- Some stories about power -- Elaborating stories -- Russell, Weber and Wrong: the power of intention -- Bachrach and Baratz: the two faces of power? -- Is power something actualized or not? -- Conclusion -- 5 Lukes' Dimensions and Epistemology -- Introduction -- Lukes' three-dimensional model and the centrality of 'interests' -- Habermas: real interests in ideal speech situations -- Benton and the 'paradox of emancipation' -- Lukes' model of power and structure -- Power, interests and hegemony: Gaventa and Whitt -- Interests and epistemology -- Realism, causal powers and objectives -- Conclusion.