Keith Dowding
type: Concept
broader: power and urban studies
broader: power and political theory
broader: power and political science
broader: key people in the study of power
broader: key debates in power
broader: decisions and game theory
definition: Keith Dowding has made two key contributions to understanding political power: demonstrating the importance of the collective action problem for our understanding of power and demonstrating the interplay of agency and structure with his concept of “systematic luck.” Collective action problems show that a group of actors might seem powerless even if there is no other group acting against them. Dowding claims that both pluralists and structural approaches fail to grasp this simple idea. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Dowding, Keith (1960-)]

people
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type: ConceptGroup
member: Keith Dowding

decisions and game theory
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding

key debates in power
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding

key people in the study of power
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding

power and political science
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding

power and political theory
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding

power and urban studies
type: Concept
narrower: Keith Dowding