Power Politics
Power Politics Introduction: Power is a discursive phenomenon existing significantly from the psyche of an individual to the structure of the whole universe. In between these the power has an influential authority in the discussion of politics. In relation to the politics the word power is explained as “the ability of one person to cause another to do what the first wishes, by whatever means”.
On the other hand, politics, at first as the making of decision, has a second characteristic which always involves the exercise of power. This power consist a wide variety of tools that help one person and affect the action of another. Power may be stark or it may be subtle but simultaneously it may be exercised as coercion, as persuasion, or as a construction of incentives. The ability to exercise any of these forms of power may be based on all sorts of things like money, affection, physical strength, legal status, the possession of important information, a winning smile, strong allies, determination, desperation and many more. All these are a wide sense of the variety and complexity of power but not an exhaustive limit of its important sources. However the point is that all politics involves the use of power and such power may take varied forms and influences.
Acceptable politics is the best means of exercise of power or in other words power gets exercised by politics effortlessly. Such a role of power in politics is identified as manifest power and implicit power. Manifest power is based on observable action by A that leads B to do what A wants. In case of implicit power, B does what A desires not because of anything A says or does it because 1) B senses that A wants something done and 2) for any variety of reasons B wishes to do what A wants to do. In such a condition both because power is important to politics and because it is difficult to measure precisely how and when power exercised, there are recurrent disputes within political science
On the other hand, politics, at first as the making of decision, has a second characteristic which always involves the exercise of power. This power consist a wide variety of tools that help one person and affect the action of another. Power may be stark or it may be subtle but simultaneously it may be exercised as coercion, as persuasion, or as a construction of incentives. The ability to exercise any of these forms of power may be based on all sorts of things like money, affection, physical strength, legal status, the possession of important information, a winning smile, strong allies, determination, desperation and many more. All these are a wide sense of the variety and complexity of power but not an exhaustive limit of its important sources. However the point is that all politics involves the use of power and such power may take varied forms and influences.
Acceptable politics is the best means of exercise of power or in other words power gets exercised by politics effortlessly. Such a role of power in politics is identified as manifest power and implicit power. Manifest power is based on observable action by A that leads B to do what A wants. In case of implicit power, B does what A desires not because of anything A says or does it because 1) B senses that A wants something done and 2) for any variety of reasons B wishes to do what A wants to do. In such a condition both because power is important to politics and because it is difficult to measure precisely how and when power exercised, there are recurrent disputes within political science