Practice question · Numerical answer
How many faces of power does the Dahl–Bachrach and Baratz–Lukes sequence identify in total?
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- Each contribution added one.
- Decisions, non-decisions, and the shaping of preferences.
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3
Why
Three, added in that order over seventeen years. Each addition makes power harder to observe: the first leaves a public record, the second leaves an absence, and the third leaves nothing at all except a discrepancy between what people want and what an analyst judges to be in their interest.
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