POLI 105 1st Edition Lecture 3Power:- Ability to effect outcomes- Can be both potential and kinetic (physics)o Could exist as the ability to deliver an event or in the delivery of an event- True question is whether power really is zero-sum- Power varies within a society and is not equally divided but subject to the types of resources andabilities that the actor possesses Luke and the 3 Dimensions of Power:1. First Dimension:a. Involves a focus on behavior in the making of decisions on issues over which there is observable conflict of subjective interest seen as express policy preferences, revealed by political participationb. Common way most people view power2. Second Dimension:a. Mobilization of biasb. Power to set agendasc. Power of exclusion3. Third Dimension:a. Power of ideas and behavior itselfb. Norms and valuesc. The capacity of actor A to shape what Actor B actually thinks about. To get B to do what B does not want to do but also to influence, shape or determine what B wantsMancur Olson: The Problem of the Collective Action Problem:- Olson tackles the problem of why small groups are often able to accomplish goals that big groups can’t or why it often seems even in democracy, that special interests overcome larger interestsMann- IEMP:- Mann takes a rather state-centric position on sources of social powerThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Differentiated set of institutions and personnel- Centrality of the state in political relations that radiate outwards from a center- Territorially demarcated area- Monopoly of authoritative binding rule-making, backed up by a monopoly of the means of physical violence - Four Logistics of Power:o I = Ideological Search for meaning- primarily an existential meaning drawn from our perception Development of norms of social behavior Development of aesthetic/ritual practices within a society that structure and stabilize these normso E = Economic Derives, at first, from the satisfaction of subsistence needs through the social organization of extraction, transformation, distribution and consumption of the objects of nature Ruling class is an economic class that has successfully monopolized the power sources to dominate a state-centered society at largeo M = Military Has intensive and extensive aspects, concentrated coercive power, mobilizes violence and is the bluntest form of human power Needs to be distinguished from political power b/c:• Early political orgs often had too little or no military capability• Many political orgs do not necessarily control their militaries or do not have total control over the military forces operating within the territory• There are historical instances where military conquest was not driven by states in which they reside but were initiated by the military itself• Military institutions can be separated from other state institutions in part b/c of the relative easeby which militaries can overthrow political leadershipo P = Political Usefulness of centralized, institutionalized, territorialized regulation of many aspects of social relations It is also power over diplomacy True political power comes from its capacity to law down rules and adjudicate disputes in specific