According to Robert A. Dahl, the power of individual states can be consequently conceptualized …show more content…
It can only be measured in subjective form of broad generalizations and no factual evidence. Even though the effort by Robert A. Dahl to define power is somewhat useful but is very broad, it requires further examples, explanations, and reason, which Baldwin is successful in doing. As a result, I believe that power is the capacity to bring about a change either positively influentcial or negatively. It is not the matter of how much power one holds over the other to coerce them. In fact, it is with what intent they utitlize the power and how well it is used in the interest of maximizing it to its very potential. For example, if one does hold any type of power over another, and they choose to exercise that power with malicious intent, it is the interest of that individual that comes into question, not the power