Elements of Power

• 6 sources of civic power

  I. physical force

  2. wealth

  3. state action

  4. social norms

  5. ideas

  6. numbers
• this creates the ability to buy results and to buy any other kind of power

  money
• the use of law and bureaucracy to compel people to do or not do certain things

  state action
• what other people think is okay

  social norms
• these can make people change behavior and even change laws

  social norms
• 3 laws of power

  I. powers is never static

  2. power is like water

  3. power compounds