ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to show several ways in which the forms of power blend, intergrade and overlap in reality. It discusses certain kinds of combination and interrelation of the various forms. Classifications of the forms of power are 'ideal typical' or 'analytical' and by no means imply that any and all actual power relations can be neatly subsumed under under one or another of the labelled forms. Persuasion, force and manipulation are a form of power. Force involves treating the power subject as a physical or at most a biological object, and manipulation presupposes the power subject's ignorance of the intent of the power holder. The forms of power are conceptually distinct, but this does not mean that all observable power relations can be neatly classified as exemplifying a particular form. Most of the forms of power exhibit tendencies of different degrees of strength to change over time into a different form.
