Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Marxism and Power

Political Elites

  • Lenin
  • Gramsci
  • Marcuse
  • Miliband:

welfare state + free education

(liberal democracies)

  • Poulantzas:

free education + healthcare =

long-term favourable consequences

  • similar social, educational background > possibility of elite
  • not necessarily incompatible with pluralism
  • 2 questions

Interests and Power

  • what individuals perceive to be / is, in fact, in their interests

* university

* nuclear weapons

* smoking

  • the researcher - own subjective preference

Conceptual Questions about Power

Power and Theories of the State

  • Is power the same as force?

* power - force

* Lukes

  • Must power be exercised deliberately?

* Bertrand Russell

* outcomes

  • Is power a good thing?

* Lukes

* liberal perspective

  • Can we eliminate power?

* Habermas, Marcuse, Lukes

* Foucalt

  • measuring the exercise of power
  • Stephen Lukes: 'faces of power' debate
  • 'power' definition

Pluralism and Luke's Three Dimensions of Power

1. decision-making approach

2. non-decision-making

3. ability to shape the demands which groups articulate in the decision-making arena

Power and Authority

  • power
  • authority
  • politics: interests and values (competing)
  • Goodwin - coercion
  • 2 answers to the difficulty of applying coercion:

1. ideological control

2. how can rulers convert power into authority?

*authority > philosophy > right;

*power > sociological analysis > empirical concept

  • Weber - 'legal-rational' authority
  • constituency - American president
  • Hoffman & Graham
  • democracy / totalitarian regimes

Political Power, Authority, and the State

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi