lict due to policies raised through political participation, it ignores the unobservable mechanisms of power that are sometimes just as or even more important. Many times power is exercised to prevent an issue from being raised and to discourage participation in the political arena. Potential issues and grievances are therefore not voiced and to assume this means that they do not exist would be an outright deviation from fact. By restricting analyses to what is expressed and to observable behaviour and overt conflict only, you miss any preference not expressed because of fear of sanctions, manipulation, coercion and force. This critique of the behaviourial focus and the recognition of unobservable factors of power is discussed in the two-dimensional view of power developed by Bachrach and Baratz by which "power is exercised not just upon participants within the decision making process but also towards the exclusion of certain participants and issues altogether"(Schattsneider, as cited in Lukes,1974:16). This theory proposes that political organizations develop a "mobilization of bias... in favour of the exploitation of certain kinds of conflict and the suppression of others... some issues are organized in while others are organized out"(Ibid.,16). The first dimension claims there is an open system and although admitting that political resources are not distributed equally, they are also not centralized in one groups hands. Everyone has the opportunity to use other resources and be heard. The second approach however, sees ...
