POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Relationships, Wield, Bertrand De Jouvenel
21 Apr 2019
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Forms of power: three main forms of political power are: Influence is the ability to persuade others to do your will, to convince them to want to do what you want them to do. Voluntary response to appeals made to the intellect, the passions, self-interest, and/or group solidarity. Coercion: coercion is the deliberate subjection of one"s will to another through fear of harm or threats of harm. Compliance is not voluntary but results from fear of unpleasant consequences. Modern governments try to control most forms of outright coercion. Authority: authority is a form of power in which people obey commands because they respect the source of the command. The one who issues the command is accepted as having a right to do so, and. Those who receive the command accept that they have an obligation to obey. Exists whenever one person spontaneously defers to the judgment of another person: public authority.
