{"id":1021,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/comment-on-the-bases-of-power-i-ee-ee-upsc-psir-2022-0704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:15","slug":"comment-on-the-bases-of-power-upsc-psir-2022-0704","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-the-bases-of-power-upsc-psir-2022-0704\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on the Bases of Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 Bases = what power-holders control to shape behaviour \u2192 power is more than force R2 Bases run visible \u2014. near-invisible \u2192 power rests on a widening set of supports<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Three basic bases: force \/ influence \/ authority -. forms: coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, referent -. individual base: Dahl (&quot;A over B&quot;) + Weber (will despite resistance) = power over \u2192 structural bases: Marx (economic class controls state).. feminist (patriarchy, exclusion of women) \u2192 Foucault (institutions, knowledge, surveillance, normalisation \u2014. ideology\/discourse = least visible base)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Arendt: &quot;acting in concert\u201d \u2192 collective, enabling base from civic participation, against power-as-domination<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 Power rests on structure, knowledge and consent, not force alone R2 Bases widen from coercion (visible) to ideology (invisible) \u2192 power is far broader than force<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[52],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1021","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-power-authority-legitimacy","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1021\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}