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Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually, suggesting fundamental dissimilarities in underpinning logic and goals. We introduce political control as a concept that unifies these different tactics within a single framework and demonstrate the analytical utility of considering seemingly disparate strategies in conversation rather than in isolation. We synthesize a growing recent literature on political control, including innovative approaches to repression as well as studies of indoctrination, distribution, and infiltration. We argue that tactics of political control can be understood to vary along two primary dimensions: the level of violence and the materiality of state actions. We highlight recent inquiry into the downstream effects of political control. We conclude with a call for more research on political control that considers combinations of different tactics, across regime types, in a world where tolerance of violent repression is diminishing.

"In diesem aus Anlass der Verleihung des in Erinnerung an Niklas Luhmann gestifteten Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreises gehaltenen Vortrag setzen sich die Autoren mit Luhmanns These von der grundsätzlichen selbstreferentiellen Geschlossenheit funktioneller Teilsysteme auseinander. Am Beispiel des Verhältnisses von Politik und Wirtschaft zeigen sie, dass die Wirtschaft auf nationaler Ebene heute zwar weniger zielgerecht gesteuert werden kann als noch vor einigen Jahrzehnten, dass dafür jedoch nicht die Selbstreferenzialität des ökonomischen Systems, sondern vornehmlich politische Entscheidungen verantwortlich sind, die das Hinauswachsen der Wirtschaft über nationale Grenzen ermöglicht und begünstigt haben." (Autorenreferat)

Political control as a special phenomenon is deeply hidden in complex social life. However, its influence is noticeable in many countries of the world. In this regard, there is a need for a more detailed study of this phenomenon from the point of view of setting limits to the permissible impact of the state through political control on society. At present, the influence of the masses on socio-political processes is significantly increasing. Consequently, this is the reason for the growing interest in ways of political control. As social life becomes more complex, a new direction in science is emerging that synthesizes the results of historical, legal, political science, and sociological research. This new direction becomes the subject of this research.

The article is about the specifics of political control as a form of social control. The author analyzes the practice of political control, identifies social control methods which applicable to the various objects. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of solving social problems arising in the process of implementation political control.

In recent years, governments around the world have spent significant amounts of money researching, developing, & deploying new technology for their security forces. This article seeks to further the understanding of these so-called "technologies of political control," by exploring three questions: How can we understand the consequences of this technology? What kind of knowledge is important in assessing them? What strategies could form a basis for controlling them? It is maintained that answers to these questions depend on the underlying assumptions made about the relation between technology & wider societal relations. Developing a more adequate understanding of technologies of political control requires a further examining of these assumptions in light of the "politics" of technology. 1 Table, 30 References. Adapted from the source document.

In recent years, governments around the world have spent significant amounts of money researching, developing and deploying new technology for their security forces. This article seeks to further the understanding of these so-called `technologies of political control', by exploring three questions: How can we understand the consequences of this technology? What kind of knowledge is important in assessing them? What strategies could form a basis for controlling them? It is maintained that answers to these questions depend on the underlying assumptions made about the relation between technology and wider societal relations. Developing a more adequate understanding of technologies of political control requires a further examining of these assumptions in light of the `politics' of technology.