Managing Great Power Politics

Power Sharing in Politics

After a brief description of a representative selection of power indices and a discussion of the notion of power in collective decision making, the paper discusses the modelling of power of an individual or collective agent as identified with the potential or factual effect the decision of this agent has on the outcome. It demonstrates that the distribution of power is crucially dependent on th...

Power and Organizational Politics

Definitions of power abound. German sociologist, Max Weber defined power as "the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance." Along similar lines, Emerson suggests that "The power of actor A over actor B is the amount of resistance on the part of B which can be potentially overcome by A." Power appears to involve on...

Politics, power, and birth.

Politics is the process and method of decision making for individuals and groups. Politics may define the power relationships between women and their healthcare providers. Politics may shape the experience for the woman. Nurses and birthing women can learn to negotiate the politics and power relationships surrounding the birth experience.

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility".

In this issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, Schoenfeld et al. report a qualitative analysis of Shared decision-making (SDM) from the perspective of Emergency Department (ED) patients. Shared decision-making is "a collaborative process in which patients and providers make health care decisions together, taking into account the best evidence available, as well as the patient's values and prefer...

Power Politics and the Powerless