Behaviouralism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This essay examines Dahl’s argument for coercive, then the three faces of power, then critical approaches at the inter-state and intra-state level in an attempt to demonstrate the difficulties in formulating umbrella theories of power and to assess the possibility of a framework by which political power can be judged. It concludes that power is not a simple and categorisable phenomenon - undoubtedly, agency is a factor, as is the power embedded in social, economic and political structures, ye...