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Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968), 196. Political science concretizes the abstract concepts of political philosophy, while political philosophy provides a basis or direction to political science. With these concepts it is possible for example, to rank members of the United States Senate according to . A. The term authority is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate by the social structure, not to be confused with authoritarianism.One can regard power as evil or unjust; however, power can also be seen as good and as something inherited or given . This paper is based on the on-going research for the author's Ph.D. dissertation. /DeviceRGB /ProcSet[/PDF From this definition is developed a statement of power comparability, or the relative degree of power held by two or more persons. the effective control over the material means of production is the basis for the control over the means of producing/transforming social relations. According to Laswell and Kaplan, "The concept of power is perhaps the most fundamental in the whole of Political Science, the political process is the shaping, distribution and exercise of power (in a wider sense, of all the deference values or of influence in general)". Political philosophy, branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion.The meaning of the term political is itself one of the major problems of political philosophy. 2 0 obj
/Linearized 1.0 key concepts, as well as those parts of society that are not political. The score for 'social power' is 376 million hits, for 'political power' 194 million which compares with 334 million for 'society', The Concept of Power by Robert A. Dahl — A Summary. Most people have an intuitive notion of what it means. >> 111 0 R 87 0 obj Most people have an intuitive notion of what it means. terms, can a sound concept of power be predi-cated on the assumption that power is totally Robert A. Dahl, "The Concept of Power," Behavioral Science 2, no. It is the ability of a person to fulfill his desire or to achieve his objectives . The use of the term "Sovereignty" in Political Science dates back to the publication of Bodin's "The Republic" in 1576. 0000002520 00000 n courses are in the Political Science Department; two (2) courses are from other disciplines. <>
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