@inbook{b4cfe198af834f15949b33721b0066e4,
title = "Capabilities, Powers and Competences",
abstract = "The article tries to articulate the distinction between powers and competences. Moreover, it also aims to embed these notions in social ontology and the theory of actions. The argument of the first part is bottom-up: it starts with a discussion of actions and capabilities to act and defines powers as capabilities to act. Then follows a brief discussion of juridical acts, as the performance of juridical acts is one important way to exercise powers. The power to bring about legal consequences by means of a juridical act, the legal power, is a special case of power in the broader sense. Legal competence is a legal status which is necessary for the existence of legal powers. The second part consists of a number of applications of the theory about competences and powers that was developed in the first part. These applications are also used for distinguishing my view from other views.",
keywords = "Capability, Competence, Juridical act, Power",
author = "Jaap Hage",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-28555-4_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-28554-7",
series = "Law and Philosophy Library",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
pages = "25--45",
editor = "Gonzalo Villa-Rosas and Torben Spaak",
booktitle = "Legal Power and Legal Competence",
}