Power Causation and Explanation
Northeastern Political Science Association
Power, Causation & Explanation Author(s): Terence Ball Reviewed work(s): Source: Polity, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Winter, 1975), pp. 189-214 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3234201 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 00:17
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Causation & Power, Explanation* of University Minnesota
Terence Ball
The concept, not power,is hereanalyzedin terms significant onlyto students political but of philosophy to all sortsofpoliticalsciencefolk. over of Scrutiny thepluralist-stratificationist controversy community power(including of of explication theassumptions Dahl and Bachrach/ can non-events be causes) provides exampleof Baratz on whether an uses of theconcept, the that defective power.Ball criticizes assumption and specifically the powerhas a singlemeaning questions mechanistic, causal "powerover"model,askingus to see theconditional power,the in senseofability capacityto do things. or TerenceBall received Ph.D. from University California, his the of and scienceat the Berkeley, is nowassistant of professor political His recently and of University Minnesota. published monographs articles includeCivilDisobedienceand CivilDeviance,"On 'Historical' Explanation,""Theoryand Practice:An Examination thePlatonic of and
Power, Causation & Explanation Author(s): Terence Ball Reviewed work(s): Source: Polity, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Winter, 1975), pp. 189-214 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3234201 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 00:17
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Causation & Power, Explanation* of University Minnesota
Terence Ball
The concept, not power,is hereanalyzedin terms significant onlyto students political but of philosophy to all sortsofpoliticalsciencefolk. over of Scrutiny thepluralist-stratificationist controversy community power(including of of explication theassumptions Dahl and Bachrach/ can non-events be causes) provides exampleof Baratz on whether an uses of theconcept, the that defective power.Ball criticizes assumption and specifically the powerhas a singlemeaning questions mechanistic, causal "powerover"model,askingus to see theconditional power,the in senseofability capacityto do things. or TerenceBall received Ph.D. from University California, his the of and scienceat the Berkeley, is nowassistant of professor political His recently and of University Minnesota. published monographs articles includeCivilDisobedienceand CivilDeviance,"On 'Historical' Explanation,""Theoryand Practice:An Examination thePlatonic of and