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Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge : Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1 The Three Theoretical Levels or Discourses of this Book; 2 Structure of the Argument; 2 An American Preamble; 1 Personal Background: The Absence of Decisive Sources of Inspiration; 2 Some Observations on the Historical Context; 2.1 The Great Depression and the New Deal; 2.2 The Keynesian paradigm; 2.3 The postwar reassessment of market and politics; 2.4 Inventing a better society; 3 Political and Philosophical Background; 3.1 The overarching liberal political context.
- 3.2 Ethical pluralism and liberalism3.3 Pragmatism as attitude toward life; 4 Pluralistic Antecedents; 4.1 The traditionally strong role of civil organizations in America; 4.2 Statism in nineteenth-century political scholarship; 4.3 The pluralist critique of statist thought in the interbellum; 4.4 An unstable pedestal for Arthur F. Bentley; 4.5 Earl Latham on the relentless power struggle between groups; 4.6 David B. Truman; 5 Concerns about Electoral Political Incompetence; 5.1 The psychological discourse in the interbellum; 5.2 Political science requires a new theory of democracy.
- 5.3 Deweyism as democratic theory5.4 Postwar empirical investigations of electoral competence; 5.5 Bernard Berelson on benevolent political indifference; 6 Conclusion; 3 Foreign Policy and Political Competence; 1 Citizens, Congress, and Foreign Affairs; 1.1 Three criteria for democratic decision making; 1.2 Influences on and limitations of the elected representative; 1.3 Three methods to improve current decision making; 1.4 Why the choice of means cannot be left up to the experts; 1.5 Fostering political competence; 1.6 Desired reforms of the political system: Party government.
- 1.7 Influences on Congress and Foreign Policy2 The Elected Dictator and Iraq; 2.1 Concentration of power and complacency; 2.2 The rationality of the democratic decision making on Iraq; 3 Electoral Competence and the Emancipation Dilemma; 4 A Common Point of Departure; 1 Appropriate Social Techniques and the End of Ideology; 2 Seven Broadly Endorsed Goals of Rational Social Action; 3 Calculation and Control as Prerequisites for Rational Social Action; 3.1 Processes of calculation: Science, incrementalism, calculated risk, utopianism; 3.2 Four techniques of control; 4 The Price System.
- 4.1 How businessmen are controlled through the market mechanism4.2 The market and socialism can coexist; 5 The Hierarchical Order; 5.1 Bureaucracy and the causes of and reasons for its expansion; 5.2 The inevitable costs of indispensable bureaucracies; 5.3 The primacy of politics and decentralization as counterweights; 6 Polyarchy; 6.1 Polyarchy as solution to the basic problem of politics; 6.2 The social preconditions for the existence of a polyarchy; 7 Bargaining; 7.1 The negative consequences for political rationality and responsiveness.
- 7.2 â#x80;#x9C;Party Governmentâ#x80;#x9D; to combat the negative aspects of bargaining.