Presidentialist constitutions, through an information effect and a focal effect, generate expectations of future informal power that encourage clientelistic networks to coordinate law-disregarding practices around a "single pyramid" of power led by the president.
The instrument consists of 19 items measuring six components of structural empowerment: information (α 0.86), opportunity (α 0.86), support (α 0.86), resources (α 0. 87), informal power (α 0.86) and formal power (α 0.86).
Often this involves informal power.
Conduct an audit of your informal power.
We learn to wield informal power.
You gotta reframe the debate, use informal power.
"This regime has thrived on flexibility and informal power relations.
Functionalist perspectives differentiate legitimate, formal authority from illegitimate, informal power.
Sometimes, informal power can be much more effective, and it doesn't have to follow a hierarchy.
Or, lots of people have informal power, so maybe the formal hierarchy says, I'm in control.
The lack of formal rules and hierarchy masks a vicious informal power structure.
