The Semisovereign People

Author : Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Education
ISBN : 0030133661

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The Semisovereign People by Elmer Eric Schattschneider Pdf

This book started out to be an attempt to formulate a theory of political organization. While the emphasis has shifted somewhat in the course of the writing, it is still a book about political organization, an attempt to work out a theory about the relation between organization and conflict, the relation between political organization and democracy, and the organizational alternatives open to the American people. The assumption made throughout is that the nature of political organization depends on the conflicts exploited in the political system, which ultimately is what politics is about. The thesis is that we shall never understand politics unless we know what the struggle is about. The great problem in American politics is: What makes things happen? We might understand the dynamics of American politics if we knew what is going on when things are happening. What is the process of change? What does change look like? These questions are worth asking because obviously tremendous things are going on in American public affairs, even in quiet times... To understand why Americans generally have been unconscious of the process of change it is necessary to take a new look at the dynamics of American politics. Throughout this book the emphasis has been on the dynamic character of the American political system. The concepts formulated here constitute an attack on all political theories, all research techniques and concepts tending to show that American politics is a meaningless stalemate about which no one can do anything. Because so much is going on, one object of the book is to show the need for a new public policy about politics.--from the Preface.

Author : E. E. Schattschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473897595

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Author : Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1315126052

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Party Government by Elmer Eric Schattschneider Pdf

What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study, E.E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial points: A political party is an organized attempt to get control of the government. Parties live in a highly competitive world. The major parties manage to maintain their supremacy over the minor parties. The internal processes of the parties have not generally received the attention they deserve in treatises on American politics. The party is a process that has grown up about elections. And perhaps most important of all is the distribution of power within the party organization." "But Party Government is not just about political parties. At its heart is the theory and practice of modern democracy, and it is the most cited, controversial, and probably single most influential study of political parties ever written. Schattschneider questions the purpose of government, who rules, and how government should be organized consistent with its fundamental purpose, which are the enduring fault lines of American democracy. He takes the reader through a thorough and penetrating examination of political parties and the American government. Starting with a historical overview and defense of parties. Schattschneider offers a searing analysis of politics itself, with special focus on the number of interest groups both affecting and affected by government. He describes the various types of political organizations - major parties, pressure groups, and minor parties - and offers a study of the two-party character of the American system.

Author : Charles J. Fox,Hugh T. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015031818928

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Postmodern Public Administration by Charles J. Fox,Hugh T. Miller Pdf

In this book Fox and Miller define public administration theory and public management doctrine as an orthodoxy that is intellectually bankrupt and democratically unacceptable. Constitutionalism and communitarianism get similar treatment. Next, the authors construct a new theoretical position defined as constructivism and based on critical theory, phenomenology and structuration theory.

Author : Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020733120

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Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government by Elmer Eric Schattschneider Pdf

Author : Bryan D. Jones,Sean M. Theriault,Michelle Whyman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226625942

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The Great Broadening by Bryan D. Jones,Sean M. Theriault,Michelle Whyman Pdf

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments. With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended burst of activity. They argue that the broadening of government responsibilities into new policy areas such as health care, civil rights, and gender issues and the increasing depth of existing government programs explain many of the changes in America politics since the 1970s. Increasing government attention to particular issues was motivated by activist groups. In turn, the beneficiaries of the government policies that resulted became supporters of the government’s activity, leading to the broad acceptance of its role. This broadening and deepening of government, however, produced a reaction as groups critical of its activities organized to resist and roll back its growth.

Author : Clayton Sinyai
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729911

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Schools of Democracy by Clayton Sinyai Pdf

In this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and the American democratic tradition. Sinyai shows how America's working people and union leaders debated the first questions of democratic theory—and in the process educated themselves about the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship. In tracing the course of the American labor movement from the founding of the Knights of Labor in the 1870s to the 1968 presidential election and its aftermath, Sinyai explores the political dimensions of collective bargaining, the structures of unions and businesses, and labor's relationships with political parties and other social movements. Schools of Democracy analyzes how labor activists wrestled with fundamental aspects of political philosophy and the development of American democracy, including majority rule versus individual liberty, the rule of law, and the qualifications required of citizens of a democracy. Offering a balanced assessment of mainstream leaders of American labor, from Samuel Gompers to George Meany, and their radical critics, including the Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World, Sinyai provides an unusual and refreshing perspective on American labor history.

Author : Oscar van Heffen,Walter J.M. Kickert,Jacques J.A. Thomassen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401594868

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Governance in Modern Society by Oscar van Heffen,Walter J.M. Kickert,Jacques J.A. Thomassen Pdf

This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). NIG is an interuniversity research school. As such it has a double task. In addition to offering a Ph.D program to students in Public Administration it also is a research institute in which a great number of scholars from seven Dutch universities participate and work on a common research program. The chapters in this book are all products of the research program that started in 1995. This program had the ambition to explore the frontiers of the discipline in two respects. First by studying a number of recent developments in society and their consequences for the functioning of government. These consequences can be summarised as the development of a system of multi level and multi actor governance. Second, by contributing to the knowledge of institutions, both by studying what factors are most important in the formation and change of institutions and by studying the effects of institutions on the behaviour of actors in different political and administrative settings. Most contributions to this volume either have their origin in conferences organized by the NIG or were published as an NIG working paper. We are grateful to Marcia Clifford and Connie Hoekstra who prepared the final version of the manuscript, to Ian Priestnall who took care of the language editing and to an anonymous reviewer whose comments were gratefully used.

Author : Steven J. Balla,Martin Lodge,Edward Page
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199646135

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The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration by Steven J. Balla,Martin Lodge,Edward Page Pdf

This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration. The Handbook reflects on a wide range of key contributions to the field, selected on the basis of their international and wider disciplinary impact. Focusing on classics that contributed significantly to the field over the second half of the 20th century, it offers insights into works that have explored aspects of the policy process, of particular features of bureaucracy, and of administrative and policy reforms. Each classic is discussed by a leading international scholars. They offer unique insights into the ways in which individual classics have been received in scholarly debates and disciplines, how classics have shaped evolving research agendas, and how the individual classics continue to shape contemporary scholarly debates. In doing so, this volume offers a novel approach towards considering the various central contributions to the field. The Handbook offers students of public policy and administration state-of-the-art insights into the enduring impact of key contributions to the field.

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Springer
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349018543

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The Problem of Party Government by Richard Rose Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Persily
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107087118

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Solutions to Political Polarization in America by Nathaniel Persily Pdf

This volume assembles several top analysts of American politics to focus on solutions to polarization.

Author : Frances Fax Piven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742563407

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Challenging Authority by Frances Fax Piven Pdf

Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

Author : Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401101318

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Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation by Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann Pdf

Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All the invited scholars from academia, international research institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental principle: For environmental policies to be effective and legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement, environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a framework for evaluating different models of public participation in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or political science communities in issues of public participation.

Author : Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421437354

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Downsizing Democracy by Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg Pdf

Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making. At a time when an American's investment in the democratic process has largely been reduced to an annual contribution to a political party or organization, Downsizing Democracy offers a critical reassessment of American democracy.

Author : Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba,Henry E. Brady
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691159867

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The Unheavenly Chorus by Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba,Henry E. Brady Pdf

Examining the current state of democracy in the United States, 'The Unheavenly Chorus' looks at the political participation of individual citizens - alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests - in order to demonstrate that American democracy is marred by ingrained and persistent class-based inequality.