Concept information
Preferred term
theories of power
Definition(s)
- Power, broadly defined, is the collective order that compels people to do something they otherwise would not. There are a number of important aspects of power that are worth pointing out. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Power, Theories Of]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- causal theories of power
- coercion and power
- collective action problem
- community power debate
- elite theories
- exchange theory
- feminist international relations
- feminist theories of power
- marxist accounts of power
- neorealism
- post-Fordism
- postmodernist view of power in international relations
- power as control theory
- power in animal groups
- power to and power over
- queer theories of power
- realism in international relations
- realist accounts of power
- relational power
- social power
- striving for superiority
- system justification theory
- third face
- three faces of power
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