ited in Lukes,1974:18) states:
             Who prevails in decision-making seems the best
             way to determine which individual and groups have
             more power in social life because direct conflict
             between actors presents a situation most approximating
             an experimental test of their capacities to affect outcome.
             Both Lukes and Gaventa put forward the notion that restricting your analyses of a power situation to the one dimensional model can skew your conclusions. If you limit yourself to this approach your study will be impaired by a pluralistic biased view of power. Where the first dimension sees power in its manifest functions of decision making over key issues raising observable conflict due to policies raised through political participation, it ignores the unobservable mechanisms of power that are sometimes just as or even more important.
             Many times power is exercised to prevent an issue from being raised and to discourage participation in the political arena. Potential issues and grievances are therefore not voiced and to assume this means that they do not exist
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