Power has two faces including agenda-setting through nondecisions

Evidence

Bachrach, P. and Baratz, M. S. (1962) Two faces of power. American Political Science Review 56, 947–52. … Bachrach, P. and Baratz, M. S. (1963) Decisions and nondecisions: an analytical framework. American Political Science Review 57, 632–42. … Bachrach, P. and Baratz, M. S. (1970) Power and Poverty: Theory and Practice. New York. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 823

Categorization

• XREF: Bachrach and Baratz’s ‘second face of power’ — nondecisions and agenda control — resonates with how Darlington’s polite deference forecloses dissenting views before they are ever voiced, a theme central to the reader’s Luhmann-Ishiguro argument.