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Power Defined (Part 1): Power and Its Exercise

In: Speaking Management

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  • Stephen Keith McGrath

    (University of Southern Queensland)

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This Chapter, together with Chap. 12 seek to remove definitional overlap and confusion from power and its related terms. This chapter deals with the inadequacy of single term definitions and adopts an appropriate method for developing non-overlapping definitions. It selects the following terms for definition: legitimacy, authority, power and influence (in this chapter) followed by direct, control, regulate and regulation (in Chap. 12 ). These terms are then arranged into a diagram which is fleshed out with other non-contested, non-overlapping terms into a model representing the machinery of power. Several thought experiments are then conducted on the model and the means of driving it are then considered. The definitional approach taken is strictly non-normative, non-behavioural and non-institutional, thereby avoiding the issues of the morality, strategies and outcomes of exercising power. Consequently, no evaluation is offered of social or political theory; terms are simply defined, and the implications of these definitions explored, resulting in an understanding of the consequent mechanics of power within an internally consistent definitional framework. Previous and contemporary power theories are then easily located within this model.

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  • Stephen Keith McGrath, 2021. "Power Defined (Part 1): Power and Its Exercise," Springer Books, in: Speaking Management, chapter 0, pages 123-167, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-2213-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2213-7_11
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