Sayer, A. Power, causality and normativity: A critical realist critique of Foucault, Journal of Political Power, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2012, Pages 179-194 https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.698898 Abstract A critical realist account is developed of two aspects of the study of power which are normally left implicit: the theory of causation presupposed and the way in which …