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Absolutism
In the 17th and 18th centuries, various European monarchs claimed absolute powers within their states. Monarchs claimed a divine right to rule with their subjects having no claim to limit their powers. The Danish “King's Law” of 1665 states that the ...
- Adler, Alfred
- Ability
- Agenda Power
- Agenda Power
- Alliances
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Agency
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Adverse Selection
- Agenda Power
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Adler, Alfred
- Agency
- Animal Groups, Power in
- Animal Groups, Power in
- Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
- Adorno, Theodor
- Ableness
- Agenda Setters
- Agenda Setters
- Anarchy in International Relations
- Authority
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Agenda Setters
- Anarchism, Power in
- Authoritarian Personality
- Agency-Structure Problem
- Causal Theories of Power
- Consensual Power, Theories of
- Castells, Manuel
- Althusser, Louis
- Absolutism
- Banzhaf Value
- Bicameral Legislature
- Appeasement
- Caste System (India)
- Autonomy
- Barry, Brian
- Community Power Debate
- Authority
- Authority
- Bases of Power
- Biopower
- Coercion and Power
- Constructivist View of Power in International Relations
- Community Power Debate
- Arendt, Hannah
- Adverse Selection
- Banzhaf Voting Power Measure
- Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrats
- Arms Race
- Chicken Games
- Bases of Power
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Essentially Contested Concept
- Banzhaf Value
- Barry, Brian
- Deflected Wants
- Caste System (India)
- Collective Action Problem
- Critical Theory
- Dahl, Robert A.
- Aristotle
- Agency
- Bargaining
- Bureaucratic Power
- Balance of Power
- Deliberative Democracy
- Free Will
- Community Power Debate
- Exercise Fallacy
- Bicameral Legislature
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Eagly, Alice
- Clegg, Stewart
- Community Power Debate
- Defensive Realism
- Domhoff, G. William
- Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
- Agenda Power
- Blocking Coalition
- Capture Theory of Regulation
- Banks
- Gender, Role of Power in
- Gender, Role of Power in
- Consensual Power, Theories of
- False Consciousness
- Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrats
- Capital, Marxist
- Expectancy Confirmation, Power and
- Decentering (of Subject, of Structure)
- Elite Theories
- Deterrence Theory
- Dowding, Keith
- Bakunin, Mikhail
- Agenda Setters
- Bribe Index
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Bargaining in International Relations
- Heterosexism, Role of Power in
- Interdependence Theory
- Critical Theory
- Fungibility of Power Resources
- Bureaucratic Power
- Capital, Neoclassical
- Fiske, Susan
- Deliberation
- Exchange Theory
- Elite Theories
- Elite Theories
- Barry, Brian
- Argument, Power of
- Chicken Games
- Corporatism
- Bull, Hedley
- Hierarchy
- Leadership and Gender
- Dahl, Robert A.
- Mechanisms
- Business and Power
- Castells, Manuel
- Framing
- Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Feminist International Relations, View of Power
- Exercise Fallacy
- Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Authority
- Coalition Theory
- Dominant Parties
- Carr, E. H.
- Interdependence Theory
- Psychological Empowerment
- Defensive Realism
- Pluralism
- Capital, Marxist
- Deliberative Democracy
- French, John R. P., Jr.
- Foucault, Michel
- Feminist Theories of Power
- Exploitation
- Growth Coalitions
- Bull, Hedley
- Autonomy
- Coleman, James S.
- e-Governance
- Cartwright, Dorwin
- Leadership and Gender
- Submissive
- Deliberative Democracy
- Power Elite
- Capital, Neoclassical
- Democracy
- Granovetter, Mark
- Free Will
- Marxist Accounts of Power
- False Consciousness
- Hunter, Floyd
- Carr, E. H.
- Bargaining
- Coleman Index
- Elections
- Chicken Games
- Power as Control Theory
- Dependency Theory in International Relations
- Power Laws
- Capture Theory of Regulation
- Dispositif
- Groupthink
- Giddens, Anthony
- Neoliberalism
- Female Leadership Among Mammals
- Lukes, Steven
- Cartwright, Dorwin
- Blackmail
- Computer Algorithms for Power Indices
- Federal Structure
- Civil War
- Psychological Empowerment
- Discourse
- Preference Versus Nonpreference-Based Concepts
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Distributive Justice
- Hall, Judith A.
- Governmentality
- Neorealism
- Fungibility of Power Resources
- Mobilization of Bias
- Castells, Manuel
- Bureaucratic Power
- Core of a Game
- Internet and Power
- Clausewitz, Carl von
- Submissive
- Domhoff, G. William
- Principal-Agent Relationship
- Civil War
- Domhoff, G. William
- Human Dominance Motivation
- Groupthink
- Post-Fordism
- Hegemonic Power
- Non Decision Making
- Clausewitz, Carl von
- Cabal
- Dowding, Keith
- Leadership
- Compliance (International)
- Veiled Women
- Domination
- Rationality
- Coalition Theory
- Dowding, Keith
- Interdependence Theory
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
- Hegemony
- Pluralism
- Clegg, Stewart
- Capability
- Fair Division
- Media, The
- Constructivist View of Power in International Relations
- Dowding, Keith
- Realism in International Relations
- Collective Action Problem
- Freedom
- Jost, John
- Habitus
- Power as Control Theory
- Heterosexism, Role of Power in
- Post-Fordism
- Coleman, James S.
- Capital, Marxist
- Felsenthal, Dan S.
- Organization of the State
- Conventional Deterrence
- Elite Theories
- Realist Accounts of Power
- Community Power Debate
- Global Governance
- Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal
- Haugaard, Mark
- Power To and Power Over
- Human Dominance Motivation
- Power Elite
- Cox, Robert W.
- Causation
- Game Forms, Power in
- Political Parties
- Cox, Robert W.
- Essentially Contested Concept
- Reputational Analysis
- Core Parties
- Globalization
- Lewin, Kurt, and Power
- Jessop, Bob
- Queer Theories of Power
- Ideology
- Regime Theory in Urban Politics
- Dahl, Robert A.
- Coercion, Analytic
- Game-Theoretical Approaches to Power
- Prime Ministerial and Presidential
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Free Will
- Resources as Measuring Power
- Corporatism
- Governmentality
- Power, Cognition, and Behavior
- Luhmann, Niklas
- Realism in International Relations
- Imperial Power
- Sabatier, Paul
- Deutsch, Karl
- Coercion and Power
- Grand Coalition
- Principal-Agent Relationship
- Defensive Realism
- Freedom
- Systematic Luck
- Coup d'État
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Power as Control Theory
- Lukes, Steven
- Realist Accounts of Power
- Influence
- Systematic Luck
- Domhoff, G. William
- Collective Action Problem
- Gunboat Diplomacy
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Dependency Theory in International Relations
- Global Governance
- Third Face
- Dahl, Robert A.
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Power Motive
- Mann, Michael
- Relational Power
- Invisible Hand
- Systemic Power
- Dowding, Keith
- Complex Equality (Walzer)
- Harsanyi, John C.
- Referendums
- Deterrence Theory
- Hunter, Floyd
- Three Faces of Power
- Democracy
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Psychological Empowerment
- Michels, Robert
- Social Power
- Knowledge and Power
- Third Face
- Eagly, Alice
- Consent
- Holler, Manfred
- Structure-Induced Equilibrium
- Deterrent Threats
- Liberalism
- Dictatorship
- Hunter, Floyd
- Rationality
- Miliband, Ralph
- Striving for Superiority
- Language and Power
- Three Faces of Power
- Felsenthal, Dan S.
- Control
- Homogeneous Weighted Majority Games
- Unicameral Legislature
- Deutsch, Karl
- Luck
- Dominant Parties
- Jessop, Bob
- Raven, Bertram
- Mills, C. Wright
- System Justification Theory
- Legislative Power
- World Cities
- Fiske, Susan
- Cooperation
- I-Power
- U.S. Electoral College, Power in
- Diplomacy
- Miliband, Ralph
- Dowding, Keith
- Justice
- Social Dominance Theory
- Morriss, Peter
- Third Face
- Manipulation
- Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Coordination
- Jurisdictions and Structure-Induced Equilibria
- Empire
- Miliband-Poulantzas Debate
- e-Governance
- Liberalism
- Status
- Nationalism
- Three Faces of Power
- Media, The
- Foucault, Michel
- Corruption
- Machover, Moshé
- Environmental Treaties
- Mills, C. Wright
- Elections
- Lukes, Steven
- Striving for Superiority
- Parsons, Talcott
- Military in Government
- French, John R. P., Jr.
- Decentering (of Subject, of Structure)
- Martin Index
- Espionage
- Mobilization of Bias
- Executive Power
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- System Justification Theory
- Perceptual Symbols of Power
- Mobilization of Bias
- Giddens, Anthony
- Deflected Wants
- Minimal Winning Coalition
- Executive Power
- Neoliberalism
- Fascism
- Marx, Karl
- Transactional and Transformational Leadership
- Post-Fordism
- Monopoly Power
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Deliberation
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- Extended Deterrence
- Neorealism
- Federal Structure
- Michels, Robert
- Propaganda
- Networks, Power in
- Granovetter, Mark
- Determinacy
- Non Decision Making
- Feminist International Relations, View of Power
- Non Decision Making
- Global Governance
- Miliband, Ralph
- Rationality
- Networks and Communities
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Determinism
- Noncooperative Games
- First-Strike Capability
- Organization of the State
- Globalization
- Mills, C. Wright
- Realist Accounts of Power
- Nonverbal Communication and Power
- Hall, Judith A.
- Discipline
- Owen Value
- Gunboat Diplomacy
- Pluralism
- Governmentality
- Morriss, Peter
- Revolution
- Perceptual Symbols of Power
- Harsanyi, John C.
- Discourse
- Paradox of New Members
- Hegemonic Power
- Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
- Grand Coalition
- Nationalism
- Rhetoric
- Persuasion
- Haugaard, Mark
- Dispositif
- Parties, Policy-Seeking Versus Power-Seeking
- Hegemonic War
- Poulantzas, Nicos
- Growth Coalitions
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Right-Wing Authoritarianism
- Pluralism
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Domain
- Penrose Voting Power Measure
- Hegemony
- Power as Control Theory
- Heresthetics
- Paternalism
- Scott, James
- Police State
- Holler, Manfred
- Domination
- Pivot Player
- Idealism in International Relations
- Power Elite
- Hierarchy
- Pluralism
- Second Face
- Political Thinking as Power
- Hunter, Floyd
- Entrepreneurs
- Power Indices
- Imperial Power
- Power To and Power Over
- Hunter, Floyd
- Political Legitimacy
- Small Worlds, Power in
- Power, Cognition, and Behavior
- Jessop, Bob
- Exclusion
- Power Laws
- Imperialism
- Psychological Empowerment
- Intelligence
- Post-Fordism
- Social Breakdown
- Power as Control Theory
- Jost, John
- Exercise Fallacy
- Power to Initiate Action and Power to Prevent Action
- Intelligence
- Queer Theories of Power
- Internet and Power
- Poulantzas, Nicos
- Social Capital
- Power Motive
- Kropotkin, Peter
- Exit and Voice as Forms of Power
- P-Power
- Lasswell, Harold
- Rationality
- Jursidictions and Structure-Induced Equilibria
- Power Elite
- Substructure and Superstructure
- Power To and Power Over
- Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal
- Expectancy Confirmation, Power and
- Preference Versus Nonpreference-Based Concepts
- League of Nations
- Realism in International Relations
- Lasswell, Harold
- Power To and Power Over
- Status
- Power Transition Theory
- Lasswell, Harold
- Exploitation
- Proper Simple Game
- Military in Government
- Regime Theory in International Relations
- Leadership
- Power With
- Strength of Weak Ties
- Power With
- Lewin, Kurt, and Power
- Fair Division
- Public Goods Index
- Morgenthau, Hans J.
- Regime Theory in Urban Politics
- Legislative Power
- Sabatier, Paul
- Structural Power
- Prime Ministerial and Presidential
- Luhmann, Niklas
- False Consciousness
- Qualified Majority Voting
- Multinational Corporations
- Relative Autonomy of the State
- Liberalism
- Scott, James
- Structural Suggestion
- Propaganda
- Lukes, Steven
- Fear, Use of
- Quarreling Paradox
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- Resources as Measuring Power
- Lukes, Steven
- Second Face
- Structuration
- Psychological Empowerment
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Female Leadership Among Mammals
- Shapley Value
- Neoliberalism
- Second Face
- Martin Index
- Social Capital
- Regime Theory in International Relations
- Machover, Moshé
- Free Market
- Shapley—Shubik Index
- Neorealism
- Social Dominance Theory
- McClelland, David
- Social Power
- Trust
- Relational Power
- Mann, Michael
- Free Will
- Shareholder Voting Power
- Offense/Defense Dominance
- Spiral Model
- Michels, Robert
- Sovereignty
- Veiled Women
- Relative Autonomy of the State
- Marx, Karl
- Freedom
- Simple Games
- Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
- Structural Power
- Military in Government
- Structural Power
- Weber, Max
- Religious Power
- McClelland, David
- Governmentality
- Small Worlds, Power in
- Power Transition Theory
- Structural Suggestion
- Mills, C. Wright
- Structural Suggestion
- Will to Power
- Revolutionary Cell Structure
- Michels, Robert
- Habitus
- Spatial Voting Analysis
- Realism in International Relations
- Structuration
- Minimal Winning Coalition
- Will to Power
- Rhetoric
- Miliband, Ralph
- Hegemony
- Square Root Rules
- Regime Theory in International Relations
- Three Faces of Power
- Morriss, Peter
- Sea Power
- Mills, C. Wright
- Hierarchy
- Strategic Power Index
- Sea Power
- Transactional and Transformational Leadership
- Nationalism
- Second Face
- Morgenthau, Hans J.
- Ideas
- Tijs Value
- Security
- Organization of the State
- Sexism, Role of Power in
- Morriss, Peter
- Ideology
- U.S. Electoral College, Power in
- Security Dilemma
- Parties, Policy-Seeking Versus Power-Seeking
- Social Capital
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Influence
- Value of a Game
- Separation of Powers
- Parties, Strong and Very Strong
- Social Dominance Theory
- Parsons, Talcott
- Interests
- Variable-Sum Games
- Sovereignty
- Pivotal Politics
- Social Power
- Poulantzas, Nicos
- Invisible Hand
- Veto Players
- Spiral Model
- Pluralism
- Striving for Superiority
- Raven, Bertram
- Leadership
- Veto Power
- Sprout, Harold
- Police State
- Riker, William H.
- Legitimation
- Voting Paradoxes
- Strategic Interaction in International Relations
- Policy Entrepreneurs
- Symbolic Power and Violence
- Sabatier, Paul
- Loyalty
- Voting Power
- Terror Regimes
- Political Parties
- Systematic Luck
- Scott, James
- Luck
- Weighted Majority Game
- Terrorism
- Post-Fordism
- Systemic Power
- Spence, Janet
- Luck, Brute
- Weighted Voting
- Waltz, Kenneth
- Power Elite
- Terrorism
- Sprout, Harold
- Manipulation
- War
- Power To and Power Over
- Testosterone, Power and
- Waltz, Kenneth
- Mechanisms
- Wight, Martin
- Prime Ministerial and Presidential
- Third Face
- Weber, Max
- Mobilization of Bias
- Wolfers, Arnold
- Principal-Agent Relationship
- Threats
- Wight, Martin
- Moral Hazard
- Wright, Quincy
- Realist Accounts of Power
- Three Faces of Power
- Wolfers, Arnold
- Networks and Communities
- Referendums
- Throffers
- Wright, Quincy
- Nonverbal Communication and Power
- Relative Autonomy of the State
- Transactional and Transformational Leadership
- Opportunity
- Revolution
- Will to Power
- Perceptual Symbols of Power
- Revolutionary Cell Structure
- Persuasion
- Right-Wing Authoritarianism
- Pluralism
- Riker, William H.
- Policy Entrepreneurs
- Riots
- Political Thinking as Power
- Second Face
- Power Elite
- Social Capital
- Power Motive
- Social Power
- Propaganda
- Spatial Voting Analysis
- Public Goods
- Structural Power
- Racism, Role of Power in
- Structural Suggestion
- Rationality
- Structure-Induced Equilibrium
- Relative Autonomy of the State
- Terror Regimes
- Responsibility
- Terrorism
- Rhetoric
- Testosterone, Power and
- Scope
- Totalitarianism
- Second Face
- Unicameral Legislature
- Social Capital
- U.S. Electoral College, Power in
- Veiled Women
- Submissive
- Veto Players
- Subordination
- Vote-Maximizing Parties
- Systematic Luck
- Voting
- Systemic Power
- Voting Paradoxes
- Third Face
- Voting Power
- Threats
- Weber, Max
- Throffers
- Weighted Voting
- Trade
- Women as Political Leaders
- Trust
- Unintended Consequences
- Vehicle Fallacy
- Will to Power
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