It is tempting to suggest that the agency-centred view of power has primacy in contexts in which we are concerned with holding political agents to account and that the non-agency-centred view has primacy in contexts in which we are concerned with evaluating a society in terms of freedom-and this temptation suggests an intriguing line of thought : why should we assume that the different contexts in which the question of why we need concepts of power arises call for a single view of power that is invariant across these contexts