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Infrastructural power is the capacity of the state to penetrate civil society and to use this penetration to enforce policy throughout its entire territory.〔Lai and Slater, 2006: 115〕 The concept of infrastructural power was introduced by sociologist Michael Mann in his article ("The Autonomous Power of the State: its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results," ) which appeared in the European Journal of Sociology in 1984. This work has been the foundation for the study of infrastructural power and its companion, despotic power. == Building infrastructural power == Mann〔Mann, 1984: 117〕 lays out four techniques by which the state gains infrastructural power. Together these factors aid in the state’s infiltration of civil society by increasing both the amount of contact citizens have with the state and the benefits derived from this contact. To increase its infrastructural power, the state must: # Provide centrally-organized services that are carried out through a division of labor. This distribution of authority improves the efficiency of the infrastructure. # Ensure the literacy of the population, which provides a means of codifying state laws and allows for a collective awareness of state power. # Produce a system of weights and measures and a currency to facilitate the exchange of goods. The state must be able to guarantee that these goods ultimately have value. # Provide effective and rapid systems of communication and transportation. In other words, an improvement of the quality and quantity of state interaction with social life leads to an increase in infrastructural power. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Infrastructural power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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