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Comment: Politics as a power concept.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 20 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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The power approach defines politics by an activity, the struggle to acquire, keep and use power wherever it occurs, rather than by an institution, the state. Its roots lie in Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The behavioural movement made it the discipline's organising idea, and its critics have spent a century qualifying it.

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