Power is the central theme in political science. Weber said that that power is the capacity to carry out one's will despite resistance. Machiavelli believed in a goaloriented expression of power. Marx believed that power was the oppressive force in the hands of the bourgeois state. Watch this video analyzing and answering the question : 'What is Political Power?'

Major themes discussed :
00:00 : Introduction
00:38 : Machiavelli's view on power
01:49 : Who wields power in a society?
02:04 : Negative liberal state
02:55 : How positive liberalism started to grow after Industrial Revolution
04:22 : Power distribution in a negative liberal state
06:58 : Marx's suggestion to overcome the demerits of a negative liberal state and Lenin's implementation of Marxist ideas
09:28 : Duverger's Iron Law of Oligarchy
10:45 : Gramsci & Foucault's views on power
11:46 : Weber's definition of power
12:39 : Conclusion


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