Johnsen and Ford (2001) posit that according to the nature of power relationships, more powerful actors attempt to control the resources of the less powerful actors and limit their ability to take advantage of new opportunities, such as the development of new international markets and customer relationships.
These differences are arguably rooted in the reluctance of more powerful actors to relinquish their power and control and the desire of community members to be more involved in services and decisions that impact their health and well-being.
But he hints, too, at more powerful actors who block change.
Far more powerful actors, including the finance industry, its various regulators, two presidents and Congress, helped create the environment and wrote the policies that caused it.
It's been reinforced lately by Bob Woodward's portrait of Obama's Afghanistan deliberations, in which the hawks in the Pentagon and the doves in the Democratic base often seem like more powerful actors than the president himself.
In the intensifying struggle for ever-scarcer federal discretionary dollars, "more powerful actors are going to crowd out the less powerful," including science, Lilly continued.
First, Pogge holds that the historical uses of power, both economic and military, by developed nations, have given rise to a global institutional framework which imposes and enables the unjust exploitation of poorer peoples by the world's more powerful actors.
We demonstrate that formalizing indigenous participation in protected area management is not enough to break through existing power structures that inhibit marginalized stakeholders to defense of their interests in natural resources against those of more powerful actors.
The extent to which reform efforts were informed by HPSR resulted largely from interactions of working groups with, in some cases, more powerful actors in the political realm [ 50, 51].
