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Write short note: Community Power.

  • UPSC 2002, 1990
  • Politics and Society

Community power is the capacity of individuals, groups and institutions to shape binding decisions within a local, territorially bounded unit such as a town, city or village. Its structure is the relatively stable pattern in which that capacity is distributed. The concept grew out of American political sociology in the 1950s, when the local community…

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