One of the oldest insights of sociologists of religion is that religions and national governments are drawn to each other. Nevertheless, the kind of power necessary for governments of nations is the ...

After Maduro's extraction, Washington's next steps will reveal whether this was a one-off or a shift towards coercive power ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) raised some eyebrows while attending the United Nations Climate Summit in Paris, proclaiming the "coercive power of the central state" is needed to promote good public ...

President Theodore Roosevelt addresses officers and crewmen of the USS Connecticut upon her return from the Atlantic Fleet’s cruise around the world, February 1909 (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr.

In 1959, social psychologists John French and Bertram Raven studied power, classifying five kinds: legitimate, reward, coercive, expert and referent. These power bases still figure prominently in ...

Reporting from Washington — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential contender, reached out to his party’s social conservatives Saturday in a speech that faulted the Obama ...

People who indicate they follow no religion (the nones) have been increasing. A lot of people in formerly majority Christian nations do not participate in a religious organization. I believe ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday condemned the Obama administration's use of "coercive federal power" to limit religious freedom as he courted Christian conservatives at a Liberty University ...

Organizations are made up of individuals that exercise greater or lesser degrees of power. Sometimes, authority stems from a person's title in the organization, or from specialized knowledge and ...

Ambitious employees and aspiring leaders often ask me “How do I develop power?” and “Where does power come from?” Back in the late 1950s, psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven identified ...