Control and Power Relation
The words ‘power’ and ‘control’ were interchangeably used in Bray’s
article (2003) although they are subtly different in ways, for example
does the loss of control necessarily implies the loss of power. He did
not explain this in the article however a clear-cut of the definitions
may not be useful for us to expose the complexities. In Dahl’s (1957,
p.202) words: “We simply cannot say whether rigorous definitions of the
concept of power are likely to be useful in theoretical systems with a
relatively large pay-off in the hard coin of scientific understanding.
The evidence is not yet in.” (Dahl, 1957, p.202) He asked for the
permission from readers to use the words ‘power’, ‘control’, ‘influence’
and some other synonyms interchangeably when “it is convenient to do
so, without denying or seeming to deny that for many other purposes
distinctions are necessary and useful” (Dahl, 1957, p.202).