Forms of Power (eBook)

Gianfranco Poggi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-6830-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social
power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself
in different forms and institutional spheres. This new book by
Gianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of social
power - the economic, the normative/ideological and the political -
are based on a group's privileged access to and control over
different resources.

Against this general background, Poggi shows how various
embodiments of normative/ideological and economic power have both
made claims on political power (considered chiefly as it is
embodied in the state) and responded in turn to the latter's
attempt to control or to instrumentalize them. The embodiment of
ideological power in religion and in modern intellectual elites is
examined in the context of their relations to the state. Poggi also
explores both the demands laid upon the state by the business elite
and the impact of the state's fiscal policies on the economic
sphere. The final chapter considers the relationship between a
state's political class and its military elite, which tends to use
the resource of organized coercion for its own ends.

Forms of Power will be of interest to students and
scholars of sociology and politics.

Autor

Giafranco Poggi is Professor of Political and Social Theory at the European University Institute.

Inhalt

Preface.

Chapter 1: Homo Potens.

Chapter 2: Power Forms.

Chapter 3: Political Power.

Chapter 4: Ideological/Normative Power.

Chapter 5: Religious Power and the State.

Chapter 6: Creative Intellectuals and the State.

Chapter 7: Economic Power.

Chapter 8: Business and Politics.

Chapter 9: The Economic Costs of the State.

Chapter 10: Military Power.

Epilogue.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"Poggi has produced a work that challenges the reader to re-examine
their concepts of power. It will certainly be of deep interest to
those academics of whatever discipline who are interested in power.
It is a strong addition to the literature in this area and as such
is highly recommended for final year undergraduates through to PhD
students." Democratization

"Forms of Power is a significant and original contribution to
contemporary debates on power. I would thoroughly recommend this
book to anyone interested in power and/or Weberian social theory."
Political Studies

"This is an ambitious work that deals in an illuminating and
comprehensive way with a notoriously difficult concept."
American Political Science Review

"This is a sustained restatement of a Weberian position in the
light of recent empirical work on forms of social power. It is
lucid, engagingly written, and sure to gain readers and attention."
John Hall, McGill University, Montreal

"Gianfranco Poggi has written a lucid and economical book on the
major forms of social power: political economic and
normative/ideological. His discussion of military power, treated as
an aspect of political power, is a welcome innovation, as is his
extensive use of untranslated Italian and German scholarship."
Dennis H. Wrong, New York University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Gesellschaftstheorie • Moderne Politiktheorie • Modern Political Theory • Political Science • Political Sociology • Politikwissenschaft • Politische Soziologie • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-6830-5 / 0745668305
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6830-7 / 9780745668307