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Examine the nature and meaning of power.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince, 1532) made power rather than virtue the object of political analysis, and it has been the discipline's central variable ever since. Yet no definition has settled it; each captures part of it, making power an essentially contested concept.

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  • Meaning: The Classic Definitions
  • Nature: Five Contested Features
  • Testing the Accounts
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