De-facing power. (social authority) From: Polity | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Hayward, Clarissa Rile | COPYRIGHT 1998 Northeastern Political Science Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Individual action should be governed by social boundary networks rather than entities, or faces, of power. Instead of investing authority in specific groups or people, authority should be disbursed through a societal structure that delimits areas of possible action. This system would expand the concept of socially responsible freedom and allow greater individual participation in establishing boundaries.

Political scientists tend to conceptualize power as a phenomenon that wears a "fa...

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