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The political community: a study of anomis
In: Midway reprint
Books in Review
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 152-156
ISSN: 1552-7476
Left-Right in Politics: The Case for Symbolic Lateral Asymmetry
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 254-264
ISSN: 1467-9248
Political Equality and Military Participation
In: Armed forces & society, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 181-186
ISSN: 1556-0848
Abraham Yeselson
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 112
ISSN: 1537-5935
Work, Creativity, and Social Justice. By Elliot Jaques. (New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1970. Pp. 262. $6.50.) - The Harried Leisure Class. By Staffan B. Linder. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 182. $7.00.) - Work in America. Report of a Special Task Force to the S...
In: American political science review, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 1273-1276
ISSN: 1537-5943
Politics and the Contemplative Life
In: American political science review, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 447-456
ISSN: 1537-5943
If there is practice without theory, perhaps there is theory without practice. We have fairly fixed notions of practice without theory—action without reflection, hand-to-mouth existence, meeting problems as they arise, disdain of plans or strategy, and so on. Of theory without practice there seems but one common idea—theory that because of abstraction or irrelevance cannot be applied. Plato told us the story of Thales of Miletus who, gazing at the stars, fell into a well. A little maid laughed to see such sport. Her laughter still rings in our ears, reminding us to practice navigating the earth rather than contemplate the stars.Theory without practice, then, seems to be theory that cannot be applied. Applied to what? Applied to problems. Which problems? Problems that arise among men or in the community. Who there defines a problem? Not to get bogged down at the start, let us say merely that some men do or that some part of the community does.We can also conceive of a theory not being applied because it seems farfetched or too costly or immoral, or because the moment for its need is not yet at hand. These are not the main objections, even though they all have a bearing in one way or another on the ideas we are about to discuss. The main objections are usually the ones already mentioned—theory irrelevant or too abstract. Abstractness, for our purposes, can be dismissed. It means either that the theory cannot be understood—a matter of communication, we assume—or that steps are lacking to bring the theory down to the applied level. We are really back to the question of application. Either a theory has relevance but for one reason or another cannot be put into practice, or it has no relevance at all and that is the end of that.
What Authority Is Not
In: American political science review, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 321-331
ISSN: 1537-5943
Authority is a subject indispensable to politics. No other word carries its basic sense of legitimate power, power exercised over those who have willed its exercise. Cut off from the vocabulary of political theorists it comes back in other guises. Playing hide-and-seek with words would not in itself be so important were it not that it takes time merely to recognize that a game is being played and to realign the new words, each bearing a fraction of the old meaning, into the framework of facts and ideas with which the original concept was associated. It can be urged, on the positive side, that a re-shuffling of words, breaking them up and giving them slightly different connotations, might stir up not only clouds of dust but also some original thinking. This has not happened with the principle of authority. Rather it has been forgotten and is now remembered. The interval has seen little gain. Perhaps "power" has profited in attention, but at the expense of being confused with authority and thus of giving new life to the Thrasymachian conception of politics and its study. Instead, the subject matter of the political scientist is earthly authority and its relation to the divine.
The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership.Lindsay Rogers
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 415-416
ISSN: 1537-5390
MAHATMA GANDHI: THE SON OF HIS MOTHER
In: The political quarterly, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 336-355
ISSN: 1467-923X
The significance of technical electoral decisions in Italy
In: The southwestern social science quarterly, Band 27, S. 180-201
ISSN: 0276-1742