Politics and power, can be regarded as the flip sides of a
coin. One cannot separate power from politics. David Easton has defined
politics as “Authoritative allocation of values” where authority symbolizes
power. However, due to the
generalization across time and space, people have conveniently substituted
politics with power which can raise conceptual issues.
Power in terms of modern social science refers to the
subsets of relations among social units such that behavior of one or more units
depends on the behavior of the other units. In terms of international
relations, power of a country is relative to that of another, also, this
relative power is not dependent on variables such as the area in square meters
of the land occupied by a country or the population of a country, instead it
merely depends on the ability of a country to cause or influence changes in
another country’s policies, actions or politics.
1 comment:
Yes politics and power can be defined in a variety of ways. But perhaps a more systematic analysis would be helpful for me to better understand your views on politics and power.
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