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{"title":"Individually lucky, collectively powerful: a response to friends","authors":"K. Dowding","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901197","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper responds to commentators on the reissue of Keith Dowding, Rational Choice and Political Power. I discuss how powerlessness depends upon collective action problems, the nature of systematic luck, and their interaction with individual responsibility. I defend measurement in conceptual analysis, discuss vagueness and ambiguity and the incoherence of some social concepts. I defend power as a simple notion whose context suggest different extensions. I discuss the conceptual and predictive use of models. I defend ‘rationality’ as consistency which stands for lawlike regularity. Finally, I discuss the problems raised with my account of persuasion in terms of manipulation.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"340 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48540432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two puzzles for shared-reason accounts of persuasion","authors":"Gregory Whitfield","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901198","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dowding has developed an account of deliberative persuasion leveraging ‘reliability conditions’ distinguishing persuasion from manipulation. The central idea is that proper reasons offered for deliberation must be shared reasons: reasons the speaker holds as grounding the proposition, and believes should motivate the receiver’s assent too. I present two puzzles for this account. The first queries the level at which reasons should be shared to count as persuasive. The second concerns the breadth of reasons for a given proposition – should a speaker have many, only some he sees as shared, may he choose just any of these to present?","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"324 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial to special issue on rational choice and political power","authors":"William Bosworth,","doi":"10.1080/2158379x.2021.1900468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2021.1900468","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on power is something of a wormhole between the worlds of political philosophy and political science. It ranges over empirical strategies for measuring power through to the debate surrounding its normative implications. Empirical political scientists engage with Marx’s moral imperatives and normative philosophers pick holes in survey methodology. There are few literatures that are so splendidly cross-disciplinary in nature – and few books that captures it better than Keith Dowding’s Rational Choice and Political Power. The contributions to this special issue, designed to engage with the book’s recently published second edition, all reflect this. From Greg Whitfield’s article on the normative project of public reason, through Pamela Pansardi’s reflections on conceptual analysis, to Jim Johnson’s critique of Dowding’s use of formal modelling for empirical explanation, the issue sports a wide range of perspectives that stand testament to the book’s breadth. While diverse, they all touch on the major challenge Dowding tackles for traversing both the empirical and normative domains: distinguishing what is the case from what one wants it to be. It is easy, for example, to say a political party is powerful when you want the party to be held to account and powerless when you do not. Along these lines, Dowding (2019, p. 173) suggests in the new Postscript that ‘the original idea for RCPP came from my critique of Steven Lukes’s three dimensions of power. I thought the collective action problem could explain everything which he thought required adding dimensions of power’. Workers may not push for legislation in their interest because they are crippled by collective action problems, the critique goes, not because a power elite is controlling them. Marx’s prophecy of a Communist revolution assumes that once the proletariat wakes up to their real interest individual workers will revolt and smash the means of production. But where violence takes effort and in the short term runs the risk of incarceration, it is presuming a lot to think large groups can coordinate in the face of free-riding incentives. While we might rightly want to hold capitalists responsible for their privilege, their power is underlain by the collective action problem faced by the many. Steven Lukes responds in the issue with his article ‘Power and Rational Choice’. He agrees that we do not need to impute the power of outsiders to explain a group’s lack of power, calling it the ‘paranoid fallacy’, and questions ‘just how far [he and Dowding] do part ways’ (Lukes, 2021). There are cases though that do appear to stir rival judgements between the two. One of the more contentious is in what sense sexual or racial bias constitutes an exercise of power. When an individual unconsciously gains from this kind of bias, such as when a male mechanic is judged more authoritative than a female engineer purely because they are male, Dowding would describe the judgement as the male mechanic’","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"277 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379x.2021.1900468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48357883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why we do need a concept of power","authors":"Pamela Pansardi","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dowding’s new edition of RCPP includes an original reflection on the task of conceptual analysis, where he argues against the need to provide a formal definition of power. In doing so, he endorses a strong anti-essentialist view on the definition of political concepts and resorts to a reductionist conception of power based on the notion of power-resources. In this article, I investigate the implications of Dowding's position for the understanding of the concept of power and I discuss the relation between power and power-resources. I conclude by providing reasons in favor of conceptual definition and by arguing, pace Dowding, that we need a concept of power.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"301 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43100918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grumpy Old Men: reconsidering Rational Choice & Political Power","authors":"J. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new, expanded edition of Keith Dowding’s Rational Choice & Political Power (PC&PP) provides an opportunity to examine the uses of game theoretic models in political inquiry. Specifically, it raises questions about the apparent discontinuities between the way bargaining models are used in RC&PP and the way he defends formal models in more recent work. I prefer what I take to be his earlier view.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"313 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1901196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43998940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power and rational choice","authors":"S. Lukes","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900494","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Addressing why those subject to domination seem to acquiesce willingly, Dowding and I disagree. Dowding appeals to luck; I claim it is likely to be power. Dowding’s view, at its strongest, views power narrowly: having power is having the capacity intentionally and observably to mobilize resources to advance one’s interests. My three-dimensional view embraces the various means by which power relations are reproduced and which they in turn reproduce, sometimes through inaction, in unconsidered ways and across generations. Power is often hidden, unobserved, even inaccessible to agents and observers alike and can be at its most effective when least observable.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"281 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900494","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49090262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Populism with a Ph.D: education levels and populist leaders","authors":"Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, Katherine Goktepe","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1904366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1904366","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Whether we define populism as an ideology, an aesthetic style, or a political strategy, populism is directed against a perceived elite and academic expertise. Yet we have seen several cases of academics who have adopted a populist style in their political careers: Pim Fortuyn (The Netherlands), Pablo Iglesias (Spain), Bernd Lucke (Germany), Christoph Mörgeli (Switzerland), and Yanis Varoufakis (Greece). This article examines how these academic populists address this apparent contradiction by construing ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’, thus that it furthers their own political persona.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"449 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1904366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41895128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power and politics in public inquiries: bloody sunday 1972","authors":"K. Kenny, Niall Ó Dochartaigh","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1890316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1890316","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What are the dominant framings by which public inquiries understand and analyze power dynamics in the events they examine? We draw on unique data from the Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 people by British soldiers at acivil rights demonstration in Northern Ireland in 1972. Juxtaposing an analysis of the actions of senior military figures with the final Inquiry report, we show how an approach of ‘sufficient rationalization’ dominated apublic inquiry’s conclusions, marginalizing and discounting important aspects. Emphasizing the local exercise of power and affective attachments, our article contributes an alternative approach to analyzing public inquiries.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"383 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1890316","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49467665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theories of power and social change. Power contestations and their implications for research on social change and innovation","authors":"Flor Avelino","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1875307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1875307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper proposes a meta-theoretical framework for studying power in processes of change and innovation. Power is one of the most contested concepts in social and political theory. This paper discusses seven prevailing points of contestation: Power over versus power to, centred versus diffused, consensual versus conflictual, constraining versus enabling, quantity versus quality, empowerment versus disempowerment and power in relation to knowledge. The paper reviews how different scholars have dealt with abovementioned points of contestation and identifies how different theories of power can be translated into specific empirical questions to systematically explore power in processes of social change and innovation.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"425 - 448"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1875307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45725227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Coercive Power and the Destruction of Human Bodies","authors":"S. Malešević","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879576","url":null,"abstract":"Organised violence has shaped much of human history and has created the world that we inhabit today. Wars and revolutions have forged the internal configurations and external borders of contemporar...","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"363 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42381067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}