John K. Galbraith, The Anatomy of Power

Three Instruments of Power:

1. Condign Power: wins submission by the ability to impose an alternative to the preferences of the individual or group that is sufficiently unpleasant or painful so that these preferences are abandoned = coercive power in D. Wrong

2. Compensatory Power: wins submission by the offer of affirmative reward -- by giving of something of value to the submitting individual

3. Conditioned Power: unlike the first two types in which the person submitting is aware of his/her submission, conditioned power is exercised by changing belief (based on persuasion, education, social commitment) and is considered a preferred course, not submission

Three Sources of Power:

1. Personality: leadership is the quality of physique, mind, speech, moral certainty that gives access to one or more of the instruments of power

2. Property: is an aspect of authority, a certainty of purpose and can invite conditioned submission, but its principal association is with compensatory power

3. Organization: has is foremost relationship with conditioned power, for from the organizational process comes the requisite persuasion and the resulting submission to the purposes of the organization; there is also access to condign power as a result of numbers and organized behavior and to compensatory power depending on the wealth controlled by the organization

Persons seek power:

1. To advance their own interests -- pecuniary and otherwise

2. To extend to others their personal, religious, or social values

3. To win support for their economic or other social perception of the public good

4. To experience the joy of exercising power

The Good or Evil of Power is in the "Eye of the Beholder"