Social Order And Political Change

Author : Samuel P. Huntington,Harvard University. Center for International Affairs
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000674294

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Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington,Harvard University. Center for International Affairs Pdf

This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the book's original publication as well as its lasting importance."This pioneering volume, examining as it does the relation between development and stability, is an interesting and exciting addition to the literature."-American Political Science Review"'Must' reading for all those interested in comparative politics or in the study of development."-Dankwart A. Rustow, Journal of International Affairs

Author : Henrik Enroth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316515150

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Political Science and the Problem of Social Order by Henrik Enroth Pdf

Shows how the problem of social order has shaped concept formation, theory, and normative argument in political science.

Author : Karol Edward Sołtan,Eric M. Uslaner,Virginia Haufler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472108689

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Institutions and Social Order by Karol Edward Sołtan,Eric M. Uslaner,Virginia Haufler Pdf

Explores the relationship between institutions and the maintenance of social order

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847652812

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The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.

Author : Carol J. Greenhouse,Elizabeth Mertz,Kay B. Warren
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822383482

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Ethnography in Unstable Places by Carol J. Greenhouse,Elizabeth Mertz,Kay B. Warren Pdf

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post–Cold War climates—from the standpoints of ordinary people caught up in and having to cope with the collapse or reconfiguration of the states in which they live. Using grounded ethnographic detail to explore the challenges to the anthropological imagination that are posed by modern uncertainties, the contributors confront the ambiguities and paradoxes that exist across the spectrum of human cultures and geographies. The collection is framed by introductory and concluding chapters that highlight different dimensions of the book’s interrelated themes—agency and ethnographic reflexivity, identity and ethics, and the inseparability of political economy and interpretivism. Ethnography in Unstable Places will interest students and specialists in social anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, and cultural studies. Contributors. Eve Darian-Smith, Howard J. De Nike, Elizabeth Faier, James M. Freeman, Robert T. Gordon, Carol J. Greenhouse, Nguyen Dinh Huu, Carroll McC. Lewin, Elizabeth Mertz, Philip C. Parnell, Nancy Ries, Judy Rosenthal, Kay B. Warren, Stacia E. Zabusky

Author : James R. Kluegel,David S. Mason,Bernd Wegener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110868944

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Social Justice and Political Change by James R. Kluegel,David S. Mason,Bernd Wegener Pdf

Author : Jeff Manza,Clem Brooks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191544620

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Social Cleavages and Political Change by Jeff Manza,Clem Brooks Pdf

What social groups support which political party, and how that support has changed over time, are central questions in the sociology of political behaviour. This study provides the first systematic book-length reassessment and restatement of the sociological approach to American politics in more than 20 years. It challenges widespread arguments that the importance of social cleavages have declined precipitously in recent years in the face of post-industrial social and economic changes. The book reconceptualizes the concept of social cleavages and focus on four major cleavages in American society: class, religion, gender, and race, arguing a that a number of important changes in the alignments of the groups making up these four cleavages have occurred. The book examines the implications of these changes for the Democratic and Republican Parties. The findings of the book are examined in light of the central dilemmas facing the two major parties in the contemporary political environment.

Author : Kenneth M. Dolbeare
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003450007

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Political Change in the United States by Kenneth M. Dolbeare Pdf

A Manhattan boy spends much of his time designing go-karts but never tries to build one until he meets an older black boy.

Author : Renaud Egreteau,François Robinne
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971698669

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Metamorphosis by Renaud Egreteau,François Robinne Pdf

With a young population of more than 52 million, an ambitious roadmap for political reform, and on the cusp of rapid economic development, since 2010 the world’s attention has been drawn to Myanmar or Burma. But underlying recent political transitions are other wrenching social changes and shocks, a set of transformations less clearly mapped out. Relations between ethnic and religious groups, in the context of Burma’s political model of a state composed of ethnic groups, are a particularly important “unsolved equation”. The editors use the notion of metamorphosis to look at Myanmar today and tomorrow—a term that accommodates linear change, stubborn persistence and the possibility of dramatic transformation. Divided into four sections, on politics, identity and ethnic relations, social change in fields like education and medicine, and the evolutions of religious institutions, the volume takes a broad view, combining an anthropological approach with views from political scientists and historians. This volume is an essential guide to the political and social challenges ahead for Myanmar.

Author : Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521761734

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Violence and Social Orders by Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast Pdf

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429944328

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Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.

Author : Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429717796

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Managing Political Change by Irene L. Gendzier Pdf

For nearly three decades, policymakers and students have been concerned with Third World societies in transition. Conventional interpretations of political change, formalized in studies of political development, have dominated approaches to analyzing such changes. Yet, argues the author, these interpretations have been justly criticized as bankrupt and irrelevant to Third World realities. Why are they reproduced? How can one explain the belief that these approaches remain viable? These are some of the questions addressed in this wideranging review of the literature of political development and the paradigms that have guided analysis of political change over the past thirty years. Examining how political development theories are rooted in U.S. foreign policy, domestic political trends, and changes in postwar political science, Dr. Gendzier grounds the traditional approach to political development in recent history and politics. Her analysis raises questions about how development doctrine is related to foreign policy, as well as noting development theory's debt to cold war ideology and revisionist theories of liberal democracy. Dr. Gendzier's interpretation sheds light on the reasons for the current theoretical bias that favors approaching politics in terms of psychology and culture—an approach that, she states, has had devastating effects on our understanding of politics.

Author : Oddbjørn Knutsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319521237

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Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe by Oddbjørn Knutsen Pdf

This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual’s voting preferences. There have been major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how social structure determines people’s voting behaviour. There has also been a shift in value orientations, for example from religious to secular values and from more authoritarian to libertarian values. The author addresses the questions: How do social structure and value orientations influence party choice in advanced industrial democracies?; To what extent is the impact of social structure on party choice transmitted via value orientations?; To what extent is the impact of value orientations on party choice causal effects when controlled for the prior structural variables? The book will be of use to advanced students and scholars in the fields of comparative politics, electoral politics and political sociology.

Author : Shannon R. Lane,Suzanne Pritzker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319685885

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Political Social Work by Shannon R. Lane,Suzanne Pritzker Pdf

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning ideas into concrete goals and strategies for effecting change. Tracing the roots of social work in response to systemic social inequality, it clearly relates the tenets of social work to the challenges and opportunities of modern social change. The book identifies the core domains of political social work, including engaging individuals and communities in voting, influencing policy agendas, and seeking and holding elected office. Chapters elaborate on the necessary skills for political social work, featuring discussion, examples, and critical thinking exercises in such vital areas as: Power, empowerment, and conflict: engaging effectively with power in political settings. Getting on the agenda: assessing the political context and developing political strategy. Planning the political intervention: advocacy and electoral campaigns. Empowering voters Persuasive political communication. Budgeting and allocating resources. Evaluating political social work efforts. Making ethical decisions in political social work. Political Social Work is a potent reference for social work professionals, practitioners, and students seeking core political knowledge and skills to practically advance their work. For specialists and generalists alike, it solidifies political action as vital for the evolution of the field.

Author : Dean Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1526129272

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Penguin Books and Political Change by Dean Blackburn Pdf

This book explores the political ideas that shaped post-war Britain. It does so by examining the history of Penguin Books, a publisher that played an important role in circulating ideas. By situating the publisher's books in their respective historical contexts, the book constructs a new story about post-war Britain. It suggests that the wartime period ushered in a 'meritocratic moment' in Britain's political history that was eclipsed from the mid-1970s.