A-level
Sociology A-level:
Political Power
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Political Power
The nature of power
- Introduction
- Power and authority
- Weber: Authority
- Competing models of power
- What do we have so far?
- Power: A radical approach
The dstribution of power
- The pluralist model
- The elitist model
- The Marxist theory of the state
- Which model best describes the power structure of Britain?
- Where does this leave us?
A brief account of post 1945 political theory
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