| Kommentar |
Power has been the defining concept of political science for decades.
Nevertheless, from the mid-seventies onwards, power slowly disappeared from the research-agenda, as well as, the public agenda. Methodological and epistemological problems, some saturation or weariness and a changing political climate caused this development. Although not necessarily related to this, since then, social inequality and, partly as a result of this, political inequality has strongly increased in most of the Western political systems. For that reason, the distribution of power has again attracted the attention of social and political scientists. Power as such is not just a crucial political concept and phenomenon. The history of the research on Power also offers us an excellent opportunity to assess the epistemological possibilities of social and political knowledge. |
| Literatur |
A reader with pivotal texts of, among others, Wright Mills, Hunter, Dahl, Domhoff, Bachrach & Baratz, Spinrad, Ball, Blokland, Lindblom, Vogel, Mizruchi, Potters & Sloof, Shapiro, Mead, sil & Katzenstein, Jacobs & Skocpol, Winters. |
