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This is a good book if you're into old dry non fiction. In this book the author, Lasswell, defines values as desired goals and power as the ability to participate in decisions. He sees political power as the ability to produce intended effects on other people. Additionally, the author views the elite as the primary holders of power, but in a controversial twist, he maintains that the non-elite or majority always have the last word in terms of influence. Written between the two world wars, the theories proposed in this book are amazingly relevant to any discussion of modern politics.
A sober and comprehensive political analysis written at the height of the Great Depression but before the onset of WWII. Laswell's claims may be somewhat sweeping, but the categories and perspectives he sets out to define are still quite helpful to understanding how politics works.