Knock out the wrong reading of power

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Question

   Three of these claims about theorists of power are false.

   Choices

   1. Item

      Foucault: power circulates, not held

      Correct

      Yes

   2. Explanation

      Lukes named the three faces of power, not Dahl.

      Item

      Dahl counted three faces of power

   3. Explanation

      Lukes added agenda setting and the shaping of preferences.

      Item

      Lukes stopped at open decisions

   4. Explanation

      Foucault held that power circulates rather than being held.

      Item

      For Foucault power is a thing owned

2. Question

   Three of these claims about elite and pluralist theory are false.

   Choices

   1. Item

      Mosca: every society has a ruling few

      Correct

      Yes

   2. Explanation

      Pareto described a circulation of elites, old replaced by new.

      Item

      Pareto denied that elites ever change

   3. Explanation

      Classical elitists reject the pluralist picture of dispersed power.

      Item

      Elite theory agrees with the pluralists

   4. Explanation

      Dahl is a pluralist, arguing many interest groups compete.

      Item

      Dahl founded classical elite theory

Instructions

Tap away the three false claims in each set about who said what on power, leaving one standing.

Explanation