POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Steven Lukes, Learned Helplessness
25 May 2017
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The civil rights movements changed opportunities for women. Politics involves contestations and control over scarce and valuable goods and provisions. A productive capacity of persons to bring about ends. Many of our interpersonal relationships are suffused with power in ways that make it a central feature of that relationship. Power seems to name a very fundamental relationship between persons. Power is often a means to an end. We want political power to be legitimate. A power over b to the extent that a can get b to do something that and would otehrwise not do but for a"s influence. In this conception we determine power through contestation: participation, gain, loses. We want to know what prevails in decision making. We focus on observable behaviour- presumably if there are issues, one acts to make changes. Participation occurs in open decision making arenas. The players are organized with identifiable leadership.
