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1. The Concept of Politics and Governance: Power WEEK3

2. MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCIES The learner will: ● define power and recognize the nature, dimensions, types, and consequences of power; ● recognize the nature, dimensions, types, and consequences of power; ● Analyze the nature, dimensions, types, deployments, and consequences of power; and ● Assess how power is exercised in different situations.

3. TERMINOLOGIES • Concept - an abstract idea; a general notion. • Extrinsic- not part of the essential nature of someone or something; coming or operating from outside • Intrinsic- contained wholly within the organ on which it acts; motivation involves doing something because it's personally rewarding to you. • Coercive- the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats. • Ingratiation- is a psychological technique in which an individual attempts to influence another person by becoming more likable to their target .

4. “Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power” - William Gaddis

5. Politics always involves the exercise of power by one person or persons to another person or persons. Power is the ability to get someone, to do something he/she wants to accomplish, thus making things happen in the way he/she wants to accomplish, thus making things happen in ways he/she wants. Having the such ability, along with the exercise of power is an influence. Thus, influence is the process by which a person affects the behavior and feeling of another person. To influence a person there must be an authority which is the right to change another person. Power is as well a prime ingredient of politics. However, there are instances that power becomes cynical, brutal, and self-destructive affirmed by Lord Acton’s dictum. “Power tends to corrupt absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

6. Source of Power A. Reward power. It is the extent to which a leader can use extrinsic and intrinsic to control and influence other people.

7. Source of Power B. Coercive power. It is the degree to which a leader can deny desired rewards or administer punishments to control other people and let them follow his wants. C. Legitimate power. It is the extent to which a leader can use subordinates’ internalized values or beliefs that the boss has a right of command to control his subordinates’ behavior that if legitimacy is lost, the authority will not be accepted by subordinates. It is also known as formal hierarchical authority.

8. Source of Power D. Information power- The leader has access to and control of their information. The people may protect the information to increase their power. E. Process power- The leader has full control over the methods of production and analysis. Thereby, placing an individual in the position of influencing how inputs are transformed into outputs as well as managing the analytical process used to make choices. F. Representative power- The legal right conferred to speak by the firm as a representative of a potentially significant group composed of individuals from departments or outside the firm.

9. Types of Authority

10. Charismatic Authority- It is an influence possessed by a person’s virtue of their magnetism. Respect and even adoration to the point of leading followers to make great sacrifices flows not from the legal basis of one’s power but an individual’s personal “gift.” 2. Rational-Legal Authority- It is a leadership based on established law. People obey the leader because they accept his/her power under the law. 3. Traditional Authority- Leadership is based on the culture that people often give allegiance to the one who occupies the institutional position. 4. Coercive Authority- The power to use force such as police or military force to demand obedience from the subordinates

11. Conclusion or Summary Power is one of the important concepts and plays a huge role in politics, from governing how decisions are made to how political actors interact with one another. The channels of power are how power is enacted. They can perhaps more readily be remembered as 'head, hands and heart'.

12. ACTIVITY 1: Essay: Answer the following questions. What is Power? Give at least 2 source of power and explain each. How does the overuse and misuse of power affect the people?

13. Thank you!