POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days \u2014 the entire PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. The discipline is simple: read the capsule, write the same day, don’t break the chain. Running alongside: PSIR Dynamics 2026 for deep conceptual grounding, and the PYQ Vault \u2014 560 previous-year questions released over 50 days, roughly 11 per day.<\/p>\n
Power is the foundational concept of Political Science \u2014 what money is to economics, power is to politics. Day 7 brings together the full conceptual architecture of this unit: the meaning and bases of power (Russell to Weber to Lukes), the major theoretical perspectives (Liberal, Marxist, Feminist, Elitist, Pluralist, Postmodern), Gramsci’s hegemony and its extension into IR through Robert W. Cox and Susan Strange, the concept of ideology from Marx to Althusser to Foucault, and finally authority, legitimacy, and Habermas’s legitimation crisis. Between 2016 and 2025, this unit carried 11 questions \u2014 6 \u00d7 10-markers, 3 \u00d7 15-markers, and 2 \u00d7 20-markers \u2014 making it one of the highest-yield single units in Paper I.<\/p>\n
If you go blank on a point \u2014 Lukes’ three dimensions, the Gramscian distinction between war of position and war of manoeuvre, Macpherson’s extractive vs developmental power \u2014 it is covered in full in your Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts. Revise it, then write.<\/p>\n
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