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Ideas of Steven Lukes, by Text

[British, fl. 1990, Professor at the LSE, and then New York University.]

2005	Power: a Radical View (2nd ed)

Intro

p.1

22850

Hidden powers are the most effective

Intro

p.2

22852

The pluralist view says that power is restrained by group rivalry

Intro

p.2

22851

In the 1950s they said ideology is finished, and expertise takes over

Intro

p.9

22853

Anyone who thinks capitalism can improve their lives is endorsing capitalism

Intro

p.12

22854

Power is a capacity, which may never need to be exercised

1.2

p.19

22855

One-dimensionsal power is behaviour in observable conflicts of interests

1.3

p.20

22856

Political organisation brings some conflicts to the fore, and suppresses others

1.4

p.25

22857

The two-dimensional view of power recognises the importance of controlling the agenda

1.4

p.26

22858

There is collective action, where a trend is manifest, but is not attributable to individuals

1.4

p.27

22859

Power can be exercised to determine a person's desires

1.4

p.28

22860

The evidence for the exertion of power need not involve a grievance of the powerless

1.6

p.37

22861

Power is affecting a person in a way contrary to their interests

1.6

p.37

22862

Liberals take people as they are, and take their preferences to be their interests

1.8

p.57

22863

Power is the capacity of a social class to realise its interests

p.27

p.152

21133

Supreme power is getting people to have thoughts and desires chosen by you