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Title Encyclopedia of power / edited by Keith Dowding.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 755 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series A Sage reference publication
Sage reference publication.
Note "A Sage reference publication."
Summary Covers of the use of power in the social sciences and the complex ways in which power has been used. Provides a reference for debates central to the issues of power in different contexts and for related topics, showing how these disparate topics are related to power.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Encyclopedias.
Power (Social sciences)
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Electronic books.
Encyclopedias.
Added Author Dowding, Keith M.
Other Form: Print version: Encyclopedia of power. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011 9781412927482 (DLC) 2010032325 (OCoLC)651913638
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