PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Power, Authority & Legitimacy
Write on the Linkage between Power and Hegemony.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 Power not only coercion → also works through consent → that consensual face is hegemony R2 Dahl's overt "power over" → but the deepest power shapes consent → Gramsci names this hegemony
Body flow
Gramsci links power & hegemony ~.. supremacy in two modes: domination + intellectual and moral leadership → political society = coercion / civil society = consent → ruling-class worldview becomes common sense → unequal order seems just → power exercised with consent = hegemony — matches Lukes' third dimension (shapes beliefs, not just actions) → most durable, explains why unequal order survives
Counter-view
Hegemony never complete → must be constantly renewed → contestable through a slow war of position
Conclusion routes
R1 Hegemony is power's deepest, most durable face -. rule rests on belief, not force R2 Power as hegemony = domination so secure it no longer needs coercion
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
