Power by

Persuasive Influence of Power

w1823756 — 2021-11-14 14:22:29 UTC

Power is structured into stable and enduring social relations

Works through institutions to produce regular and persistent patterns of action.

Power brings consequences to society because people exercise power for a reason.
Power is central to the idea of human agency that people behave in a certain way to follow the command.
Power is always related to a society where power exists in and through social relations. It is because power relation involves the intention to produce a particular effect or the desire to see a particular effect occurring.

There are two agencies in power: principal-agent with the capacity to exercise power; subaltern - person receives/obeys the power exercised.

There are two forms of power: corrective influence and persuasive influence.

I will mainly focus on the persuasive influence of power which is further divided into signification and legitimation of power. The former refers to cognitive symbols, ideas, and representations that lead people to define situations in a certain way. The first row shows that the driver will stop the car when a sign appears, and the driver obeys this sign spontaneously he knows the consequences and penalties of being disobeying.

The legitimation of power refers to the value commitments that limit willingness to consider action alternatives. There are authorized people and organizations whom you believe their values, and you obey them automatically because you consider them as fitted to speak on behalf of values.

Therefore, the second row and the third show the cause-effect relationships between legitimated principals and subalterns. When NHS posted a notification of preventing COVID, subalterns obey because people believe that NHS is fitted to speak on behalf of certain values in terms of preventing COVID.

Social stratification and leadership

Force and manipulation can be organized into the more complex structures of coercion and inducement

First row: High

Corrective influence of power ——Authoritarian State

w1767856 — 2021-11-15 17:55:55 UTC

1. Power is granted entirely to those entrusted with power.
2. The principle of an authoritarian state is terror; The aim is to seek calm. But this calm is not peaceful at all. It was only a temporary calm before the enemy was brewing to occupy the city pool.
3. The so-called maintenance of the state is the maintenance of the monarch, or in other words, only depends on the condition of the monarch's secluded deep palace. Whatever happens, as long as it does not directly threaten the palace or the capital's city pool, it will not touch the nerves of ignorant, arrogant, prejudiced people. As for the knock-on effects of developments, they are not going to inquire, foresee, or even imagine.
4. If a king is reduced to a lower order, he will be considered dead, and another monarch will ascend to the throne. Treaties signed as prisoners will be considered null and void, and his successors will not ratify them.
5. Force does not come from the state, but from the army that built it
6. The emperor's family is like a country, extremely fragile in itself, but its parents are extremely powerful. It looked huge, and in an instant, It could fall apart

Power- modern administrative power - kind of public power

2021-11-16 22:40:49 UTC

Publicity：

Administrative power is a tool for the realization of public interests, it belongs to the power of the whole society in the country and is a kind of public power

benefit the masses of the people

Administrative power has transcendence. Committed to the realization of public interests in the form of national interests is a power above society
Administrative power has an overall nature. Focusing on the overall things in society should be related to the basic problems of the whole social order

The nature of administrative power is executive and managerial power.

The main body of administrative power must be the state administrative agency and its staff.

The fundamental goal of administrative power is to effectively realize the national will by implementing national laws, decrees and various policies.

The function of administrative power is mainly to enforce decrees.

The object of administrative power is universal, which is the state power aimed at the whole society.

The power of the state to manage administrative affairs is an important part of state power.

In ancient times,

In slavery and feudal countries, state power is generally not divided, and all supreme power is concentrated in the hands of kings and emperors.

In the 17th century,

the British thinker J. Locke believed that state power should be divided into legislative power and executive power. The legislative power is concentrated in Parliament and the executive power is concentrated in the government.

In the 18th century,

French thinker Montesquieu put forward the theory of separation of legislative, judicial and administrative powers on the basis of Locke's thought.
Since then, the concept that administrative power is an important part of state power has gradually been widely accepted.

Capitalist countries generally establish political systems according to the theory of separation of powers and checks and balances. The legislative, administrative and judicial powers of the state are independently exercised by parliament, the government and the court, so that the three powers restrict each other, so as to maintain the balance of power.
Socialist countries put forward that all state power belongs to the people, the highest organ of power exercises state power uniformly, and administrative power is exercised by the administrative organ generated by the highest organ of power, which is responsible to and supervised by the highest organ of power.

citation

2021-11-17 15:12:40 UTC

Bruff, Harold Hastings, Balance of Forces: Separation of Powers Law in the Administrative State. U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-14, Carolina Academic Press, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=902664

Power - Ancient Power - A sovereign organization of coercion and command

w1843532_1 — 2021-11-17 18:14:59 UTC

1. What is ancient power？
(1) With distinct class nature.
(2) Sociality.
(3) It is mandatory to some extent

2. In the absence of a global command structure, relations between nations depend overwhelmingly on their ability to mobilize power and their claim to scarce resources.

3. For ancient Power, the closed recruitment pattern of centralized command structures was a key basis for inferring the existence of a ruling class.

4. Power in ancient times came down from the top, with the Son of Heaven at the top and then descending from one level to the next. The ancient ones came from the feudal class, not from the people.

Citation

w1843532_1 — 2021-11-17 18:43:09 UTC

1. Medieval, C., 2021. What Is Feudalism? | Medieval Chronicles. [online] Medieval Chronicles. Available at: [Accessed 17 November 2021].

2. John, S., 2014. Save 60 Pages. [online] ebscohost. Available at: [Accessed 17 November 2021].

3. Melissa R., B. and Sarah E., B., 2011. Elements of ancient power in the Cahokian world. 4th ed. [ebook] sage, pp.12(2) 167–192. Available at: [Accessed 17 November 2021].