Instituted power

Power relations are relations among agents that are codified in governance. Within a traditional organization, roles are subordinated, i.e. an employee has a manager who can assign tasks and can decide on hiring and firing. At a societal level, social agents are empowered by law. Thus, a police officer can arrest someone according to certain rules, a judge can take someone's freedom away and even the life, elected government officials can make laws, etc.

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