Power comes in at the point when the threat of withdrawing the matched funds is used in order to exact from the local authority a form of conduct (say, abstention from making any remarks critical of central government) not originally envisaged in the programme of central grants.

DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanism of 'power' — it emerges not from the grant itself but from the threat of withdrawing already-matched funds.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 622