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Explain the Macpherson’s view on power.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Most political science treats power as power over, the ability to make others act as one wishes. C. B. Macpherson, the Canadian critical liberal, argued that liberal theory had mixed up two different ideas under this one word. In Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval (1973) he pulled them apart in order to retrieve liberalism's ethical…

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  • Two Concepts of Power
  • The Market Root: Net Transfer of Powers
  • Normative Programme
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