ABSTRACT
The area of interpersonal power is beset by a handicap that analysts of community, national, and international power have been able to avoid. The problem with thinking or power as a relationship between people is that it deprives the discourse of an intellectual apparatus that has proved very useful in talking about power relations in larger units. To talk about power over a single decision, readers must necessarily abandon the notion of objective probability. The most meaningful subjective probabilities are those held by such targets of influence. Even if the target is a single individual, the idea of subjective probability remains valid. To illustrate this, assume that the decision of concern is whether Professor Jones will accept an attractive offer from another university He has promised to give an answer in thirty days, but he is able to tell us that he "probably" will accept the offer.
