Despotic power definition
Despotic power means a variety of actions by which the state elites coercively keep the means to undertake, without routine, negotiations with civil, social groups. Thus, it has to do with the state elites´ capacity and distributive power over civil society. “Infrastructural power”, however, refers to the state institutional capacity to infiltrate its territories and logistically implement its political decisions. In fact, it has to do with the power of coordinating collective actions. Such power is exercised and mediated by the State-society relations (Mann, 1993: 59).
Examples of Despotic power in a sentence
Despotic power refers to the “range of ac- tions which the elite is empowered to undertake without routine, institutionalized negotiation with civil society groups (▇▇▇▇ 1984).”6 In this sense, despotic power is about the regime’s autonomy to act.