The sources of power depend on obedience and cooperation
These six sources of political power are necessary to establish or retain power and control. Their availability, however, is subject to constant variation and is not necessarity secure.
The more extensive and detailed the rulers’ control over the population and society, the more such assistance they will require from individual, group, organization, and branches of the government. If these needed ‘’assistants’’ reject the rulers’ authority, they may then carry out the rulers’ wishes and orders inefficienty, or may even flatly refuse to continue their usual assistance. When this happens, the total effective power of the rulers is reduced.
Because the rulers are dependert on other people to operate the system, the rulers are continually subject to influence and restriction by both their direct assistants and the general popula