What is Power network?
{{nosources|date=August 2010}} A '''Power network''' is a type of [[contact network]] where its members can tell other people what to do. It must be large enough to literally scare or force people to go along with its [[request]]s, which makes them [[order]]s. This typically requires thousands of people in constant touch with each other. A [[political party]] is the most obvious example. It is typically much larger than a [[social network]] but is not one, since people can only call on each other for a small number of reasons, and perhaps at specific times. Also not every member of the network has the same role or right to help. A [[corporation]] may also be a power network if it relies on many [[power relation]]s to maintain itself - for instance, the right to draw [[oil]] from the ground or dump [[waste]] without being held responsible for it. When a power network achieves some stable grasp of political [[Influence|power]] and daily working control of some important [[infrastructure]], it becomes a [[power structure]]. In a [[democracy]] the visible power networks represented by the parties compete regularly in an [[election]] - but much of the power structure, typically the [[bureaucracy]], does not change, and is typically ignored as a power network in itself. ==Related pages== * [[creative network]] {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Politics]]