Arthur F. Bentley and Behavioral Political Theory
Author | : William I. Buscemi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William I. Buscemi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur F. Bentley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 135147622X |
Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking place, and a feeling that all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk. This prompted Bentley to develop an analysis of group interests, which he believed to be the true dictators of government decisions.He was hailed on methodological grounds as an early supporter of the behavioral revolution, which called for the use of natural scientific methods in the social sciences and for offering a group theory of politics. Bentley's implicit critique of narrow empiricism reflects the diverse influences of Dilthey, Simmel, and Dewey. The Process of Government was virtually ignored until the post-World War II period, but is now regarded as a classic in political science.
Author | : Leo Weinstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eulau, Heinz |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1412851165 |
Author | : William Ignatius Buscemi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Bentley, Arthur Fisher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James F. Ward |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul F. Kress |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard J. Gelles |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351314343 |
Changes in the thinking of science are usually accompanied by lively intellectual conflicts between opposing or divergent points of view. The clash of ideas is a major ingredient in the stimulation of the life of the mind in human culture. Such arguments and counter-arguments, of proofs and disproofs, permit changes in the arts and sciences to take place. Political science is not exempt from these conflicts. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the study of politics has been rocked by disagreements over its scope, theories, and methods. These disagreements were somewhat less frequent than in most sciences, natural or behavioral, but they have been at times bitter and persuasive. The subject matter of political science politics and all that is involved in politics has a halo effect. The stakes of politics make people fight and sometimes die for what they claim as their due. Political scientists seem to confuse academic with political stakes, behaving as if the victories and defeats on the battleground of the intellect resemble those on the battleground of political life. Three issues seem critical to political science at the time this volume first appeared in the 1960s: First, disagreement over the nature of the knowledge of political things is a science of politics possible, or is the study of politics a matter of philosophy? Second, controversy over the place of values in the study of politics a controversy that makes for a great deal of confusion. Third, disagreements over the basic units of analysis in the study of politics‘should the political scientist study individual and collective behavior, or limit the work to the study of institutions and large-scale processes? This collection brings together the most persuasive writings on these topics in the mid-1960s.
Author | : Richard Wirth Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Alt |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1999-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1610440048 |
What can the disciplines of political science and economics learn from one another? Political scientists have recently begun to adapt economic theories of exchange, trade, and competition to the study of legislatures, parties, and voting. At the same time, some of the most innovative and influential thinkers in economics have crossed the boundaries of their discipline to explore the classic questions of political science. Competition and Cooperation features six of these path-breaking scholars, all winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics, in a series of conversations with more than a dozen distinguished political scientists. The discussions analyze, adapt, and extend the Nobelists' seminal work, showing how it has carried over into political science and paved the way for fruitful cooperation between the two disciplines. The exchanges span all of the major conceptual legacies of the Nobel laureates: Arrow's formalization of the problems of collective decisions; Buchanan's work on constitutions and his critique of majority rule; Becker's theory of competition among interest groups; North's focus on insecure property rights and transaction costs; Simon's concern with the limits to rationality; and Selten's experimental work on strategic thinking and behavior. As befits any genuine dialogue, the traffic of ideas and experiences runs both ways. The Nobel economists have had a profound impact upon political science, but, in addressing political questions, they have also had to rethink many settled assumptions of economics. The standard image of economic man as a hyper-rational, self-interested creature, acting by and for for himself, bears only a passing resemblance to man as a political animal. Several of the Nobelists featured in this volume have turned instead to the insights of cognitive science and institutional analysis to provide a more recognizable portrait of political life. The reconsideration of rationality and the role of institutions,in economics as in politics, raises the possibility of a shared approach to individual choice and institutional behavior that gives glimmers of a new unity in the social sciences. Competition and Cooperation demonstrates that the most important work in both economics and political science reflects a marriage of the two disciplines.