TY - JOUR
T1 - Power and rational choice
AU - Lukes, Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Addressing why those subject to domination seem to acquiesce willingly, Dowding and I disagree. Dowding appeals to luck; I claim it is likely to be power. Dowding’s view, at its strongest, views power narrowly: having power is having the capacity intentionally and observably to mobilize resources to advance one’s interests. My three-dimensional view embraces the various means by which power relations are reproduced and which they in turn reproduce, sometimes through inaction, in unconsidered ways and across generations. Power is often hidden, unobserved, even inaccessible to agents and observers alike and can be at its most effective when least observable.
AB - Addressing why those subject to domination seem to acquiesce willingly, Dowding and I disagree. Dowding appeals to luck; I claim it is likely to be power. Dowding’s view, at its strongest, views power narrowly: having power is having the capacity intentionally and observably to mobilize resources to advance one’s interests. My three-dimensional view embraces the various means by which power relations are reproduced and which they in turn reproduce, sometimes through inaction, in unconsidered ways and across generations. Power is often hidden, unobserved, even inaccessible to agents and observers alike and can be at its most effective when least observable.
KW - Luck
KW - acquiescence
KW - domination
KW - intentionality
KW - structural racism
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U2 - 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900494
DO - 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900494
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100949600
SN - 2158-379X
VL - 14
SP - 281
EP - 287
JO - Journal of Political Power
JF - Journal of Political Power
IS - 2
ER -