Power, Causation & Explanation

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The concept, power, is here analyzed in terms significant not only to students of political philosophy but to all sorts of political science folk. Scrutiny of the pluralist-stratificationist controversy over community power (including explication of the assumptions of Dahl and Bachrach/ Baratz on whether non-events can be causes) provides an example of defective uses of the concept, power. Ball criticizes the assumption that power has a single meaning and specifically questions the mechanistic, causal "power over" model, asking us to see the conditional in power, the sense of ability or capacity to do things.

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