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Power and Legitimacy
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- 1Power and Authority contradict one another, yet there is an indissoluble link between them. Name 4 of eachPower
constraint
force
subordination
dependence
Authority
consent
morality
will
autonomy - 2How did April Carter describe Authority within a Liberal DemocracyAuthority rarely exists in its pure form. Even a constitutional government acting with great liberalism, would still lack pure authority, since such government relies ultimately upon coercion (1979)
- 3How does Barbara Goodwin explain Power and Authority?The attempt to distinguish rigorously between power and authority is doomed to failure. In any normal political situation, and in every state institution, the co exist and support each other. (1997)
- 4What does Marx describe Power and Authority?Under Capitalism' the dull compulsion of economic relations' subordinates the labourer to capitalism (1970)
- 5Name some social examples of Authority which excludes powerParent and child
Teacher and student
Doctor and patient
Landlord and tennant - 6How does J.S Mill the physical force of the state?The moral coercion of public opinion(1974)
- 7Explain positive powerA power to....
a power to do things by the discovery of our own strength.....
A capacity - 8Explain Negative PowerA power over
A domination
An ability to get you to do things that you wouldn't normally do. - 9Is positive or negative power a form of Liberalism?Negative.
People who exercise power can or should be punished when they exercise power in ways which harms others - 10Explain Lukes version of three dimensional Powerone dimension = power as decision making
Two dimension = beyond decision making, issues are excluded from the agenda and people feel that their interests are not being met
Three dimensions = people express preferences that differ from their interests yet they support a system through a false consiousness - 11Regarding power and authority, all relationships involve what?Constraints (power)
Entitlements (authority) - 12What threatens power and authority?Force
- 13How did Max Weber define the state?an institution claiming a monopoly of legitimate force
- 14Explain coercion in relation to poweryou have a choice yet the power exercised involved threat or credible force
- 15Give a definition of PowerPower involves dominating someone or some group. telling them what to do.
A person has to be pressured into complying with power - 16Give a definition of AuthorityAuthority is concerned with the rightness of an action. A person will obey Authority a voluntary way.
- 17What did Jean -Jacques Rousseau say about power and authority?On the one hand, might can never be transformed into right, since force is a physical power, I do not see how its effects could produce morality(1968)
- 18How does Jean- Jacques Rousseau describe the social contract?People must obey the law. The social contract would be worthless unless it could ensure that those who refuse to abide by the general will must be constrained to do so. Dissenters must, be forced to be free. (1968)
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