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Just Inequalities of Power?

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The key difference between the two concepts is that power acts directly on the actions of others by providing incentives and penalties for action, whereas influence operates on beliefs. From this distinction it follows that the exercise of influence is not simply a sub-class of instances of the exercise of power. It can be perfectly reasonable to attribute influence where there is no power, as in the example of the influence of Cervantes on subsequent writers (Zimmerling 2005: 147).

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    Albert Weale

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  1. Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Karl Marker

  2. Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Annette Schmitt

  3. Fakultät Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Jürgen Sirsch

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Weale, A. (2019). Just Inequalities of Power?. In: Marker, K., Schmitt, A., Sirsch, J. (eds) Demokratie und Entscheidung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24529-0_16

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