Essays on Evolutions in the Study of Political Power

This book deals with the most important developments in the study of political power over the last four decades. This will be a major contribution in the understanding of the concepts and practices of how power manifests itself across every social and political context.**

Autorentext

Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York, USA.

Inhalt

Introduction: The more things change, the more they...: the changing faces of power 1979-2019 1. Power: ambiguous not vague 2. Tales of power 3. The new concepts of power? Power-over, power-to and power-with 4. Conceptual analysis of power: basic trends 5. The faces of power revisited 6. Power and domination 7. Linking the prepositions: using power analysis to inform strategies for social action 8. An application of the four-dimensional model of power: the case of Khutsong 9. The four dimensions of power: conflict and democracy 10. Why does publicity matter? Power, not deliberation 11. Soft power: the evolution of a concept 12. The changing? Face of power in international relations, 1979-2019 13. Heterarchy: Toward Paradigm Shift in World Politics