Successful dominant politics must produce recognizable experiences people embrace
Evidence
Power alone is in no way a sufficient condition for its self-realization (i.e. as if it would be up to its force to force itself). The power of power cannot be attributed once more to power. Rather it needs fundamental analysis from the point of view of evolution theory and systems theory, if one wishes to explain on what societal-structural conditions the development and institutionalization of more abstract, more effective media-codes depend. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 743 (
#expands, via linked claim)
In the case of temporal generalization, time differences are neutralized – ego accepts the influence because he has already accepted influence previously, because there is a history whose continuation seems obvious. In the case of factual generalization, factor case-related differences are neutralized – ego accepts the influence because he has also accepted influence in different circumstances and because he transfers to someone else the task of taking on the content of the communication. In the case of social generalization, social differences are neutralized – ego accepts influence because others accept it too. In order to be able to label these types of generalization clearly we will call temporally generalized influence authority, circumstance-generalized influence reputation, and socially generalized leadership influence. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 734 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Authority, reputation, and leadership are generalized motives for accepting influence (similarity 0.81)
- Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy
#expands(0.78) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 743 - Authority, reputation, and leadership are generalized motives for accepting influence
#corroborates(0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 734 - Common sense is a key route to hegemonic power in democracies
#corroborates(0.60) - Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism
#expands(0.60) - Mode of production can assign dominance to politics or religion in different epochs
#expands(0.50) - Politicians gain power by promising protection against imagined threats
#exemplifies(0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 329 - Successful prohibition campaigns depend on political timing, international support, and local cultural framing
#exemplifies(0.50) — , the-rod-and-the-child-BOOK, 5503 - Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them
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