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Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis

In: Power, Freedom, and Voting

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  • Matthew Braham

    (University of Groningen)

Abstract

An impressive list of economists, political scientists, and philosophers starting with Thomas Hobbes and including Herbert Simon (1957), James March (1955), Robert Dahl (1957, 1968), Felix Oppenheim (1961, 1976, 1981), William Riker (1964), Virginia Held (1972), and Jack Nagel (1975) have claimed that there are key and compelling similarities between what is ordinarily considered to be an ascription of social power and that which is considered under the more general rubric of causality. Hence to say: ‘i has (had) power to x’, is to assert that i can (did) cause an outcome x. ‘i has (had) power over j’ , is to assert that i can (did) cause j to act in a specific way (in a manner that he would not otherwise do).

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  • Matthew Braham, 2008. "Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis," Springer Books, in: Matthew Braham & Frank Steffen (ed.), Power, Freedom, and Voting, chapter 1, pages 1-21, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-73382-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_1
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    1. René van den Brink & Agnieszka Rusinowska & Frank Steffen, 2013. "Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) hal-00756720, HAL.
    2. René Brink & Frank Steffen, 2012. "Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 151(3), pages 757-787, June.
    3. René Brink & Agnieszka Rusinowska & Frank Steffen, 2013. "Measuring power and satisfaction in societies with opinion leaders: an axiomatization," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 41(3), pages 671-683, September.
    4. Felsenthal, Dan S. & Machover, Moshé, 2009. "A note on measuring voters’ responsibility," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 4296, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. René van den Brink & Frank Steffen, 2012. "On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 12-030/1, Tinbergen Institute.

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