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This study aims at comparing the concepts of power and decision-making processes that have developed over the research programs structural-Marxist (objectivist) and pluralistic (subjective). The first part of a systemic analysis of society, emphasizing that individual behavior is the result of objective circumstances that constrain the actions of agents (POULANTZAS, 1986; OFFE, 1982). With regard to the subjective research program, it deems that individuals act with a certain degree of freedom, having awareness of their behaviors which make sense of (DAHL, 1970, BACHRACH & BARATZ, 1969; LUKES, 1990). We will review the advancement that each author represents over its predecessor within their respective research programs, in which Steven Lukes and Claus Offe-each within the linearity of its theoretical core-are, in our view, the proximity of both points perspectives. So the question arises: what is the approach extent or complementariness between these two theoretical axes, with regards to the concept of Power? However, a second problem arises when considering the central problem of this work: with base in the observations on the philosophy of science (LAKATOS, 1983; GERRING, 2006, MILLS, 2009), what is the methodological challenges involved in this discussion? We aim to identify and relate the general patterns of both research programs proposing an analytical reflection of contemporary political theory. The methodology will be the compared literature review in order to systematize the relevant aspects of the concepts of power in the objectivist and subjectivist bias.