Power

John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and the University of Bergen.

• Acknowledgements. 1. Patterns of PowerMainstream and Second Stream.The Elementary Forms of Social Power.Structures of Domination.Counteraction.Interpersonal Power.2. Command and Sovereign PowerStates and State Elites.Integration and Recruitment.Economic Governance..3. Pressure and Policy FormationPressure and Polyarchy.Decisions, Nondecisions, and Representaton.Networks of Pressure and Policy.4. Constraint and HegemonyFinancial Power and Economic Constraint.Political Constraint and Hegemony.State Power and Class Hegemony.5. Discipline and ExpertiseGovernment, Discourse, and Discipline.Expertise and Professionalism.6. Protest and Collective MobilisationStructures of Collective Protest.Theories of Organised Protest.The Development of Protest.Globalisation and Protest.7. Interpersonal PowerPower, Dependence, and Embodiment.Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Power.Interpersonal Power and Charismatic Authority.8. CodaNotes.Bibliography.Index.

‘Scott provides a well-documented and admirably succinct analysis of social power in its diverse forms and their embodiment in both hierarchical social institutions and interpersonal relations' Dennis Wrong, Professor Emeritus, New York University‘Using some simple but robust analytical distinctions, Professor Scott neatly and lucidly surveys alternative approaches to studying power and thereby illuminates various patterns of domination and of resistance in contemporary societies, focusing on the political and economic spheres.' Steven Lukes, London School of Economics