Dominik Meier is the owner and Managing Director of Miller & Meier Consulting, a political strategy consultancy he co-founded in 1997. He is chairman of the German Association of Political Consultants (de'ge'pol), which was founded in 2002. Furthermore, he is Vice President of the Public Affairs Community of Europe (PACE), a member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International Deutschland e. V., a member of the Advisory Board of the Travel Industry Club e. V. and an editorial member of the online journal »Political Science Applied«. His work focuses on strategic positioning and lobbying leadership T as well as issues of ethics, transparency and quality assurance in policy consulting.
Christian Blum (Dr.) deals with power from a scientific and practical perspective. While studying philosophy, political science and Islamic studies in Cologne and Boston, he wrote for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Afterwards, he earned his doctorate in political theory on the common good (2015 De Gruyter) and worked as a researcher and coordinator at the Ethics Center of the University of Cologne and as a Thyssen Research Fellow at Rutgers University. As a consultant at Miller & Meier Consulting, he advises international companies on political strategy development and positioning. He is a lecturer at the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
0.1 PREFACE 9
0.2 STRUCTURE AND SUBSTANCE 11
0.3 METHODS 14
1.1 DEFINITIONAL APPROACH 17
1.2 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF POWER 30
1.3. HUMANKIND, POWER AND HISTORY - FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS 47
2.1 FORMS OF POWER 59
2.2 POWER AND SYMBOLISM 69
2.3 POWER FIELDS 78
2.4 THE COMMON GOOD 114
2.5 THE VECTORS OF POLITICAL POWER 133
3.1 THE POWER CHESS MODEL 214
3.2 EMPOWER MODEL 219
3.3 CONDENSING 243
3.4 INFLUENCING 269
3.5 GLOBAL GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 274
3.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS 281
4.1 SPECIALIST LITERATURE 285
4.2 ADDITIONAL SOURCES 305