Power and Interests

Lukes, Steven

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“…While much emphasis has been placed on power, powerlessness has received little attention (TenHouten, 2016). Lukes (1974) distinguishes between various levels of powerlessness: powerlessness in the context of making decisions, a lack of power to decide what is to be decided and powerlessness in the setting of being dominated. A crisis situation such as COVID-19, where governments imposed mandatory lockdown restrictions with limited communication, is a perfect example of all three levels of powerlessness.…”

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Public coping discourse in response to government health crisis communication

Wiese

Westhuizen

2023

CCIJ

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PurposeThis study aims to explore public coping strategies with government-imposed lockdown restrictions (i.e. forced compliance) due to a health crisis (i.e. COVID-19). This directly impacts the public's power, as they may feel alienated from their environment and from others. Consequently, this study explores the relationships between the public's power, quality of life and crisis-coping strategies. This is important to help governments understand public discourse surrounding perceived government health crisis communication, which aids effective policy development.Design/methodology/approachAn online questionnaire distributed via Qualtrics received 371 responses from the South African public and structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate the public's experience of powerlessness and resulting information-sharing, negative word-of-mouth and support-seeking as crisis coping strategies in response to government-imposed lockdown restrictions.Originality/valueThe public's perspective on health crisis communication used in this study sheds light on adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies that the public employs due to the alienation they feel during a health crisis with government-forced compliance. The findings add to the sparse research on crisis communication from the public perspective in a developing country context and provide insights for governments in developing health crisis communication strategies. The results give insight into developing policies related to community engagement and citizen participation during a pandemic.

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Public coping discourse in response to government health crisis communication

Wiese

Westhuizen

2023

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“…Lukes (1974) and Gaventa (1980) have identified three dimensions of power: visible, hidden, and invisible. Later articulated as “forms of power” (Gaventa, 1995, 2006; VeneKlasen & Miller, 2002), this analysis of power offers the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of power dynamics in participatory spaces.…”

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“…Hidden power, which Lukes (1974) referred to as “agenda-making situations” (p. 111), considers more of the context of how and what decisions are made as well as who makes those decisions. This second face of power is not just about equity of participation or who won and who lost on key issues but is concerned with how issues and actors are kept from getting to the table in the first place (Bachrach & Baratz, 1970, as cited in Gaventa, 1980).…”

Section: Power and Politics In Participatory Budgetingmentioning

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From Empowerment to Community Power in Participatory Budgeting

Evans

Fernandez-Burgos

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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This paper examines the issue of empowerment in participatory budgeting (PB). We position empowerment as part of the generally agreed theory of change in PB yet acknowledge the limits of an individual construction of empowerment that neglect sufficient attention to dynamic relations of power in participatory spaces and surrounding social contexts. Using the three forms of power theorized by Lukes (1974) and Gaventa (1980), we examine the ways in which these forms of power constrain individual and collective agency and transformative outcomes in participatory projects. We shift the gaze from empowerment to the concept of community power to suggest that getting beyond small adjustments to local services and resource allocations to substantive changes in relations of power may depend on ordinary citizens coming together in sites of radical possibility to define themselves, deliberate, and then act.

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“…30 It is in this passage that Connolly's analysis of 'real interests' is revealed to be very different from what Lukes takes it to be. 31 Lukes, citing Connolly, claims that a radical 'maintains that men's wants may themselves be a product of a system which works against their interests, and, in such cases, relates the latter to what they would want and prefer, were they able to make the choice'. Of course, this is incompatible with Connolly's statement that it is the person himself who is the final arbiter of his interests.…”

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Interests in Political Theory

Reeve¹,

Ware²

1983

Brit. J. Polit. Sci

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This article examines the concept of interests in politics which has been the subject of major debate in recent years. It makes two proposals: one concerns the elucidation of the concept of interests; the other concerns the relative status of an agent's perception of his or her own interests and an observer's specification of them. For brevity, statements of the form ‘x is in A's interest’ are referred to as interest-statements.

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Power and Interests

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