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Political scientists involved in research, teaching or writing can not avoid having to analyze, or at least describe the phenomena of political power. When trying to define the phenomena of politics, various aspects of power must be taken into consideration. This applies diversely to the normative-ontological concept of politics which emphasizes a “good” political structure, the political realism of authors like Hobbes and Machiavelli, the marxist concept which equates the relations of production and the material forces of production, as well as to the methodological concepts and its ‘diluted’ cybernetic analysis of power [Noack/Stammen, p. 235f.].
A thing to which people attach many labels with subtly or grossly different meanings in many different cultures and times is probably not a thing at all, but many things. Robert A. Dahl (The Concept of Power)
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Behrens, H. (1981). Power: An Amorphous Term — Diverse Conceptual Approaches. In: Holler, M.J. (eds) Power, Voting, and Voting Power. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00411-1_7
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