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The concept of power

Dahl, Robert A.·2007·Behavioral Science
DOI 10.1002/bs.3830020303
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What is “power”? Most people have an intuitive notion of what it means. But scientists have not yet formulated a statement of the concept of power that is rigorous enough to be of use in the systematic study of this important social phenomenon. Power is here defined in terms of a relation between people, and is expressed in simple symbolic notation. From this definition is developed a statement of power comparability, or the relative degree of power held by two or more persons. With these concepts it is possible for example, to rank members of the United States Senate according to their “power” over legislation on foreign policy and on tax and fiscal policy.

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Authors
Dahl, R. A.
Venue
Behavioral Science
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-01-17
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pages
201-215
ISSN
  • 1092-7026 (ISSN-L)
  • 0005-7940
  • 1099-1743
DOI
10.1002/bs.3830020303
OpenAlex
W1965349186
Cited by
3,863
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0
FWCI
388.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 3149 d)

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