Power
by Keith Dowding
University of Minnesota Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-8166-2941-1
Library of Congress Classification HN49.P6D69 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.3
TOC
- Contents
- Preface
- 1
- Power To and Power Over
- Why is power important?
- Power and cause
- Two concepts of power
- Two types of game
- Games of conflict and cooperation
- The blame fallacy
- Power and game theory
- 2
- Structure and Interests
- Objective interests
- Preference formation
- The collective action problem
- Demand-side problems
- Supply-side solutions
- Collective action and political power
- How structures change people
- 3
- Luck and Power
- Pivotality
- Distinguishing luck and power
- The incentive approach to power
- A method for studying power
- 4
- Systematic Luck
- The systematic luck of capitalists
- Business power
- Systematic luck and the growth machine
- Anti-growth coalitions
- Regime theory
- Pluralism, elitism and state autonomy
- Normative questions
- References
- Index
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