POLS 110 Lecture : September 24, 2012- Power and its Myriad Forms.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Jonathan W Rose

Document Summary

Government balances the interests of different parties. There are power struggles within agencies of government. There are formal and informal powers; informal power is power that exists within a network and is very pervasive: something we cannot see, so some may think informal power doesn"t exist. Congemiaty is the idea that there is unseen power. Demonstrate that power has different forms, resides in different places and need not be international. Power can be the capacity to make outcomes; to influence behaviour: power can be an inducement to behave in a certain way. Power can not exercised, simply present; can be used as a deterrent. (symbolically)