Broadly defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume - new in paper - identifies three major types of power: threat power, which is particularly important in political life; economic power, which derives from the power to produce and exchange goods and depends on the changing distribution of property ownership; and integrative power, which rests on relationships such as love, legitimacy, respect, affection, community and identity. Boulding argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.
- ISBN10 0803938624
- ISBN13 9780803938625
- Publish Date 28 June 1990 (first published 1 August 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English
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