POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Michel Foucault, Negative And Positive Rights, Negative Liberty
10 Jul 2016
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Bachrach and baratz- two faces of power challenge to dahl and the pluralist approach. Assumed the agenda setters set the agenda because they knew what they wanted. Agenda may be set up to keep things safe for those in power, some ideas/opinions/issues unimportant . Lukes- drawing from gramsci- why do people consent to a system that works against them. Power functions best when is it least noticed, consent is more powerful than coercion. Consent occurs through the shaping of desire and beliefs. People may not know their own real interests . Lukes thinks the most important question is who has power and how they use it. Necessary not only to look at who has power and how they use it, also need to look at social structures, institutions as how they shape peoples actions beliefs etc. Questions about scope of responsibility, responsibility is for both action and inaction.
