Power
is crux of politics, local, national and international. Since the
beginning of human power has occupying the central position in human
relations.
Politics is nothing other than the pursuit and exercise of power, and that political relations are mainly power relations.In ancient India, the master of statecraft, Kautilya wrote about power in the fourth century B.C as the possession of strength can attributes derived from three element: Knowledge, military and valor. Twenty-three centuries later, hans Morgenthau following Kautilya’s realistic line preferred to defined power as a relationship two political actors in which actor A has the ability to control the mind and actions of the actors.
Politics is nothing other than the pursuit and exercise of power, and that political relations are mainly power relations.In ancient India, the master of statecraft, Kautilya wrote about power in the fourth century B.C as the possession of strength can attributes derived from three element: Knowledge, military and valor. Twenty-three centuries later, hans Morgenthau following Kautilya’s realistic line preferred to defined power as a relationship two political actors in which actor A has the ability to control the mind and actions of the actors.
Schwarzenberger
defines it as the capacity to impose one’s will on others by reliance
on effective sanction in case of no-compliance.
To Dahl, Power is the ability to shift the probability of outcomes.
According to Max Weber, Power is the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his won will despite resistance, regardless of the basis of which this probability rests.
Types of Power:
Max Weber (1958) believed that there are three independent and equally important orders of power as under:
Economic Power: For Max, Economic Power is the basis of all power, including political power. It is based upon an objectives relationship to the modes of production, a group’s condition in the labor market and its chances. Economic Power refers to the measurement of the ability to control events by virtue of material advantage.
Social Power: It is based upon informal community opinion, family position, honor, prestige and patterns of consumption and lifestyles. Weber placed emphasis on the importance of social power which often takes priority over economic interest. Contemporary sociologists have also given importance to social status so much that they sometimes seem to have underestimated the importance of political power.
Political Power: It is based upon informal community opinion, family position, honor, prestige and patterns of consumption and lifestyles. Weber placed emphasis on the importance of social power which often takes priority over economic interest. Contemporary sociologists have also given importance to social status so much that they sometimes seem to have underestimated the importance of political power.
To Dahl, Power is the ability to shift the probability of outcomes.
According to Max Weber, Power is the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his won will despite resistance, regardless of the basis of which this probability rests.
Types of Power:
Max Weber (1958) believed that there are three independent and equally important orders of power as under:
Economic Power: For Max, Economic Power is the basis of all power, including political power. It is based upon an objectives relationship to the modes of production, a group’s condition in the labor market and its chances. Economic Power refers to the measurement of the ability to control events by virtue of material advantage.
Social Power: It is based upon informal community opinion, family position, honor, prestige and patterns of consumption and lifestyles. Weber placed emphasis on the importance of social power which often takes priority over economic interest. Contemporary sociologists have also given importance to social status so much that they sometimes seem to have underestimated the importance of political power.
Political Power: It is based upon informal community opinion, family position, honor, prestige and patterns of consumption and lifestyles. Weber placed emphasis on the importance of social power which often takes priority over economic interest. Contemporary sociologists have also given importance to social status so much that they sometimes seem to have underestimated the importance of political power.
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