Power Flashcards

Question

Where does power lie in Law during the medieval period?

Answer 1

Interpretation of Roman Law with Aristotle - universities

Answer 2

Hegemony of Spain - bullion and mercenary armies Hegemony of Dutch - economic power Hegemony of British - naval power

Answer 3

"The greatest power in the world" could not dispose of a collection of "night riders in black pyjamas"- evidence for the need of legitimacy

Answer 4

Bagehot - Presidential government - threatened legislative power Wilson - Congressional government - threatened presidential powers Evidence of cyclical relationship in power within context of US

Answer 5

Neo-functional - power resides in supranational bodies | Intergovernmentalist - member state pools sovereignty

Answer 6

Multi-level game - private and public interests in multilayered network

Answer 7

Ford, Chrysler and GM

Answer 8

Suggests power differentiation had dissipated with the death of communism. Gahhh.

Answer 9

Power can broadly be defined as the ability to achieve a desired outcome, sometimes referred to in terms of the 'power to' do something

Answer 10

Power is nominally naked. Authority is the right to do something

Answer 11

1. Decision making - conscious decision to do something. Boulding suggests this is done either through force/ intimidation, productive exchange for mutual gain and through loyalty or commitment (stick/carrot/kiss) 2. Agenda setting - the omission of decisions from being made - Schattschneider - 'organisation is the mobilisation of bias' 3. Power through thought control - Marxian theory. Lukes calls this the radical face of power

Answer 12

Absolute and unlimited power; which may be divided into legal, political, external and internal Legal - judicial supremacy Political - monopoly of force External - place of nation in international context Internal - place of nation within itself (parties)

Answer 13

Concentration of power in one supreme body, no need to be right, completely totalitarian

Answer 14

Ministeriales in German Aristocratic Society (1000-1200) - exercising of administrative function in twelfth century was in itself propagated authority - became a Dienstadel (nobility)

Answer 15

Power of Nevsky demonstrated by winning over the Teutonics - fell through the ice

Answer 16

Through deployment of terror, imposition of ideology against real or imagined enemies, control of economy, control of communication

Answer 17

Power comes from within - force in formation - power we depend on for our existence

Answer 18

Binding on men, women, slaves etc. - reference power of Aristotle wielded in universities and schools to influence international interplay

Answer 19

race, gender, impact on power wielded

Answer 20

soldiers in the form of slaves. These slaves had disproportionate power - eventually grew to state of owning own slaves, who were grievously mistreated

Answer 21

Ministeriales in German Aristocratic Society (1000-1200) | - exercising of administrative function in twelfth century was in itself propagated authority

Answer 22

(focus on dames) Daughters of the dominus had value, whilst they had the right of inheritance - became coveted. By rule of religion, women were subservient to men, whilst left alone would descend to evil. vagae, lascivae Power through domination shown in marriage through above and further through the adoption of male surname

Answer 23

Pouvoir - inherently vague

Answer 24

Great Men history

Answer 25

Binding on men, women, slaves etc. - reference power of Aristotle wielded in universities and schools to influence international interplay

Answer 26

Derrida theorem. Language proves a potential obstacle towards the realisation of intangible theories, hence they subvert and deconstruct their own meaning.