Analysis of power : a realist approach (Record no. 161077)

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International Standard Book Number 333362918
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Classification number 328.34 DEB
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Personal name Debnam, Geoffrey.
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Title Analysis of power : a realist approach
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Macmillan Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1984
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Extent 112 p.
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Summary, etc. This book takes a new approach to the study of power by claiming that it is both necessary and possible to identify the core elements that are present in all conceivable instances of power. Unless these are properly identified, analysis is flawed, and can become fatally preoccupied with other features, such as conflict, giving information that may be important but which does not lay the necessary foundation for a thorough going<br/><br/>As a result of looking at the approaches of writers such as Hunter, Dahl, Presthus, Agger, Goldrich and Swanson, Bachrach and Baratz, and Lukes, fifteen elements are iden tified as candidates, but are then reduced to the core elements: action, actor, intention and outcome. Each of these is discussed to sort out the problems presented. For example, can a collectivity be regarded as an actor, and can an exercise of power be attributed to inaction? Intention is the most troublesome, and is discussed at some length. Outcome is the most overlooked, yet is critical and leads directly into a discussion of the significance of structure.<br/><br/>The concept of structure has been given only limited reference in the literature on power. Where it does become the focus for debate it is immediately extended to mean structural de terminism. Rejecting such an interpretation, it is argued that the concept has very definite implications concerning the positions occupied by the observer and the subject in relation to the outcome identified. The first and most basic step lies in the recognition of this essential duality. At the least, the book may be taken as a plea for realism in the study of power.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political Science
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