ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Coercive power

Coercive power is a way of getting someone to do something by using force or threats. In other words, if you have coercive power, you use it to make someone do something they don't want to do by telling them that something bad will happen if they don't. It's like if someone tells you that you have to do something, or else something bad will happen to you.