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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Influence and Power
    sub title: Variations on a Messy Theme
  name:
    name part: Zimmerling, Ruth.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 308 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book will be of interest to legal, political and other social theorists/philosophers. Unique in its topics as well as in its approach, the book takes substantial steps towards answering essential questions about political influence. It analyses the concepts of social, political and legal power with a view towards arriving at an adequate and theoretically relevant distinction between power and influence. This volume contains an extensive overview and critical assessment; explores the conceptual relationship between freedom and power; assesses the distinctions made in existing scholarship between power and influence; presents the author’s own proposal for a definition of influence as opposed to power; combines insights from political theory, legal philosophy and the general theory of norms; is densely argued, yet accessible to all interested readers without any prerequisite of special prior knowledge; is transparently structured, written in a clear style, avoiding social-scientific jargon and using ordinary language. "Exact but not exacting, this is a fine work of overview and analysis; it makes an excellent contribution to the literature on power and freedom." Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University "In this work, the author assumes the task of a ‘logical clean-up’ – an extremely valuable contribution to the promotion of scientific rigour and clarity in political scholarship." [This book] "gives the reader orientation in a conceptual jungle." [It is] "an excellent analysis of the relationships between normative and social power." Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Prof. em. of Legal Philosophy, President of The Tampere Club "A genuinely pioneering contribution insofar as the author – to my knowledge: for the first time ever – succeeds in giving a conceptually rather clear profile to a descriptive-analytic and normative understanding of the phenomenon of influence and in elucidating – again, by way of thorough and profound analysis …
  table of contents: Concepts Taken Apart -- The Concept of Power -- The Concept of Influence -- Concepts Put Together -- Power and Freedom -- Social Power and Legal Power -- Influence and Power: A Mess Transformed?.
  note: by Ruth Zimmerling.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Law
  subject:
    topic: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  classification: B65
  classification: 340.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Law and Philosophy Library, 68
  identifier: 9781402029943
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2994-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204160738.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-2994-3