POWER

- ability to achieve a desired outcome and in politics, is usually thought of as a relationship.

- a capacity that A has to influence the behaviour of B, so that B acts in accordance with A’s wishes.
- get someone to do something you want done.
- make things happen in the way you want.

NATURE OF POWER:
1. Power is used in relational sense.
2. Power is not concentrated at any particular centre.
3. In a class-society there are diverse interests and each power represents a particular interest,
4. Power is a conditional power.
5. Power is a very complex notion.

DIMENSIONS OF POWER:
1. ISSUE 2. AGENDA 3. MANIPULATION

TYPES OF POWER:
1. Economic Power- the measurement of the ability to control events by virtue of material advantage.
2. Social Power- based upon informal community opinions, family position, honour, prestige and pattern of
consumption & lifestyle.
3. Political Power- based upon the relationships to the legal structure, party affiliation and extensive
bureaucracy.
- Involves the power to tax and power to distribute resources to the citizen.
4. Military Power- involve the use of physical coercion.
5. Ideological Power- involves power on ideas and beliefs.
6. Distributional Power- ability of individuals to get others to help them pursue their own goals.
7. Collective Power- exercised by social groups
- It may be exercised by one social group over another.