unit 1.5

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

The ability to make others do what you would have them do

Question 2

Sources of Civic Power

Answer 2

physical force, wealth, state action, social norms, ideas and numbers.

Question 3

the 3 Laws Power

Answer 3

1. power is never static
2. power is like water
3. power compounds

Question 4

Law 1 : Power is never static

Answer 4

It’s always either accumulating or decaying in a civic arena. So if you aren’t taking action, you’re being acted upon.

Question 4

Law 2 : power is like water

Answer 4

power impacts every aspect of life. Politics is the work of contolling that flow in a direction you prefer. Policy is power frozen.

Question 4

Law 3 : power compounds

Answer 4

Power begets more power, and so does powerlessness.

Question 4

physical force

Answer 4

control of the means of force such as police or military

Question 4

wealth

Answer 4

money creates the ability to buy results & many types of power

Question 5

state action

Answer 5

use of law to compel people to do (or not do) certain things

Question 5

social norms

Answer 5

has ability to make people change behavior based on what “society” accepts as “normal”

Question 5

ideas

Answer 5

can generate power if it motivates enough people to change their thinking or actions

Question 6

numbers

Answer 6

power expressed through collective intensity of interest in asserting legitimacy