5    Types of power

• we can tell about who is powerful from examining decision-making. 
• empiricist view of power, based on the idea that power can be identified in the immediately evident fact
• associated with more conservative theorists (Realism, etc.)

Latent power - power that isn't immediately observable

• the power of 'non-decision making', e.g. the power to set the agenda so that some issues never even get to be voted on. 
• structural view of power, based on idea that there are deep structures of power in society and politics
• associated more with radical theorists (Marxists, gender theorists, etc.)

But 'structural Realism' (Waltz) emphasises the structural view of international politics, as opposed to original 'empiricist' Realism

Other dimensions of power

According to Mann, 2 additional general ways in which dimensions of power can be distinguished:

• Extensive  - ability to organise large numbers of people over long distances for limited cooperation 
• intensive - ability to organise tightly and command at a high level of mobilization

• Authoritative  - commands and conscious obedience (hierarchical organisations)
• diffused  - spreading in a more spontaneous, decentred way through a population (markets, culture)