Encyclopedia of power / edited by Keith Dowding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowding, Keith M., editor.

Series:

Sage reference publication.

A Sage reference publication

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences)--Encyclopedias.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 755 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2011.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

A one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex ways in which power has been used, this encyclopedia provides a reference for debates central to the issues of power in different contexts.

Contents:

A Priori unions (see Owen Value)

Ability

Ableness

Absolutism

Adler, Alfred

Adorno, Theodor

Adverse selection

Agency

Agency-structure problem

Agenda power

Agenda setters

Alliances

Althusser, Louis

Anarchism, power in

Anarchy in international relations

Animal groups, power in

Apparatus (see Dispositif)

Appeasement

Arendt, Hannah

Argument, power of

Aristotle

Arms race

Authoritarian personality

Authority

Autonomy

Autonomy of the state (see Relative autonomy of the state)

Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton

Bakunin, Mikhail

Balance of power

Banks

Banzhaf (see Banzhaf voting power measure)

Banzhaf value

Banzhaf voting power measure

Bargaining

Bargaining in international relations

Barry, Brian

Bases of power

Bicameral legislature

Biopower

Blackmail

Blocking coalition

Bourdieu, Pierre

Bribe index

Budget-maximizing Bureaucrats

Bull, Hedley

Bureaucracy (see Bureaucratic power)

Bureaucratic power

Business and power

Cabal

Capability

Capital, Marxist

Capital, neoclassical

Capture theory of regulation

Carr, E.H.

Cartwright, Dorwin

Caste system (India)

Castells, Manuel

Causal theories of power

Causation

Central Intelligence Agency

Chicken games

Civil war

Clausewitz, Carl von

Clegg, Stewart

Coalition theory

Coercion, analytic

Coercion and power

Coleman, James S.

Coleman index

Collective action problem

Collective goods (see Public goods)

Community power debate

Complex equality (Walzer)

Compliance (international)

Computer algorithms for power indices

Consensual power, theories of

Consent

Constructivist view of power in international relations

Control

Conventional deterrence

Cooperation

Coordination

Core of a game

Core parties

Corporatism

Corruption

Coup d'etat

Cox, Robert W.

Critical theory

Cuban Missile Crisis

Dahl, Robert A.

Decentering (of subject, of structure)

Defensive realism

Deflected wants

Deliberation

Deliberative democracy

Democracy

Dependency theory in international relations

Determinacy

Determinism

Deterrence theory

Deterrent threats

Deutsch, Karl

Dictatorship

Diplomacy

Discipline

Discourse

Dispositif

Distributive justice

Domain

Domhoff, G. William

Dominant parties

Domination

Dowding, Keith

Eagly, Alice

e-Governance

Elections

Elite theories

Empire

Entrepreneurs

Environmental treaties

Espionage

Essentially contested concept

Exchange theory

Exclusion

Executive power

Exercise fallacy

Exit and voice as forms of power

Expectancy confirmation, power and

Exploitation

Extended deterrence

Fair division

False consciousness

Fascism

Fear, use of

Federal structure

Felsenthal, Dan S.

Female leadership among mammals

Feminist international relations, view of power

Feminist theories of power

First-strike capability

Fiske, Susan

Flyvbjerg, Bent

Foucault, Michel

Framing

Free market

Free rider (see collective action problem)

Free will

Freedom

French, John R.P., Jr.

Fungibility of power resources

Game forums, power in

Game-theoretical approaches to power

Gender, role of power in

Giddens, Anthony

Global cities (see world cities)

Global governance

Globalization

Governmentality

Gramsci, Antonio

Grand coalition

Granovetter, Mark

Groupthink

Growth coalitions

Growth machine (see growth coalitions)

Gunboat diplomacy

Habermas, Jurgen

Habitus

Hall, Judith A.

Harsanyi, John C.

Haugaard, Mark

Hegemonic power

Hegemonic war

Hegemony

Heresthetics

Heterosexism, role of power in

Hierarchy

Hobbes, Thomas

Holler, Manfred

Homogeneous weighted majority games

Human dominance motivation

Hunter, Floyd

Idealism in international relations

Ideas

Ideology

Imperial power

Imperialism

Influence

Intelligence

Interdependence theory

Interests

Internet and power

Invisible hand

I-power

Jessop, Bob

Jost, John

Jursidictions and structure-induced equilibria

Justice

Knowledge and power

Kropotkin, Peter

Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal

Language and power

Lasswell, Harold

Leadership

Leadership and gender

League of nations

Legislative power

Legitimation

Lewin, Kurt, and power

Liberalism

Loyalty

Luck

Luck, Brute

Luhmann, Niklas

Lukes, Steven

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Macine (see Dispositif)

Machover, Moshe

Manipulation

Mann, Michael

Martin (see Martin index)

Martin index

Marx, Karl

Marxist accounts of power

McClelland, David

Mechanisms

Media, the

Michels, Robert

Miliband, Ralph

Miliband-Poulantzas debate

Military in government

Mills, C. Wright

Minimal winning coalition

Mobilization of bias

Monopoly power

Moral hazard

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Moriss, Peter

Multinational corporations

Mutually assured destruction

Nash equilibrium

Nationalism

Neocorporatism (see Corporatism)

Neoliberalism

Neorealism

Networks, power in

Networks and communities

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Non decision making

Noncooperative games

Nonverbal communication and power

Offense/defense dominance

Offensive realism (see Defensive realism)

Opportunity

Organization of the state

Owen value

Paradox of new members

Parsons, Talcott

Parties, policy-seeking versus Power-seeking

Parties, strong and very strong

Paternalism

Penrose voting power measure

Perceptual symbols of power

Persuasion

Pivot player

Pivotal politics

Pluralism

Police state

Policy entrepreneurs

Political entrepreneurs (see Policy entrepreneurs)

Political legitimacy

Political parties

Political thinking as power

Post-Fordism

Postmodernist view of power in international relations

Poulantzas, Nicos

Power, cognition, and behavior

Power as control theory

Power as influence (see I-Power)

Power as prize (see P-Power)

Power elite

Power indices

Power laws

Power motive

Power to and power over

Power to initiate action and power to prevent action

Power transition theory

Power with

P-Power

Preference versus nonpreference-based concepts

Prime ministerial and presidential

Principal-agent relationship

Prisoner's dilema

Propaganda

Proper simple game

Psychological empowerment

Public goods

Public goods index

Qualified majority voting

Quarreling paradox

Queer theories of power

Racism, role of power in

Rationality

Raven, Bertram

Realism in international relations

Realist accounts of power

Referendums

Regime theory in international relations

Regime theory in urban politics

Relational power

Relative autonomy of the state

Religious power

Repurational analysis

Resources as measuring power

Responsibility

Revolution

Revolutionary cell structure

Rhetoric

Right-wing authoritarianism

Riker, William H.

Riots

Sabatier, Paul

Scope

Scott, James

Sea power

Second dimension (see Second face)

Second face

Security

Security dilemma

Separation of powers

Sexism, role of power in

Shapley value

Shapley-Shubik index

Shareholder voting power

Simple games

Small worlds, power in

Social breakdown

Social capital

Social dominance theory

Social exchange theory (see Exchange theory)

Social power

Sovereignty

Spatial voting analysis

Spence, Janet

Spiral model

Sprout, Harold

Square root rules

Status

Strategic interaction in international relations

Strategic power index

Strength of weak links (see Strength of weak ties)

Strength of weak ties

Striving for superiority

Structural power

Structural suggestion

Structuration

Structure-induced equilibrium

Submissive

Subordination

Substructure and superstructure

Swing player (see Ability)

Symbolic power and violence

System justification theory

Systematic luck

Systemic power

Terror regimes

Terrorism

Testosterone, power and

Third dimension (see Third face)

Third face

Threats

Three faces of power

Throffers

Tijs value

Totalitarianism

Trade

Transactional and transformational leadership

Transnational corporations (see Multinational corporations)

Trust

Unicameral legislature

Unintended consequences

U.S. Electoral College, power in

Value of a game

Variable-sum games

Vehicle fallacy

Veiled women

Veto players

Veto power

Vote-maximizing parties

Voting

Voting paradoxes

Voting power

Waltz, Kenneth

War

Weber, Max

Weighted majority game

Weighted voting

Wight, Martin

Will to power

Wolfers, Arnold

Women as political leaders

World cities

Wright, Quincy.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781506338217

1506338216

9781452266411

1452266417

9781780340173

1780340176

9781412994088

141299408X

OCLC:

710790954