Sociologists, Economists, and Democracy

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Brian Barry

页数:208

出版时间:1988-9-15

价格:GBP 24.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780226038247

具体描述

"Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new--or, more accurately, rediscovered--paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short, provocative book played no small part in the debate that precipitated this shift. . . . Without reservation, Barry's treatise is the most lucid and most influential critique of two important, competing perspectives in political analysis: the 'sociological' school of Talcott Parsons, Gabriel Almond, and other so-called functionalists; and the 'economic' school of Anthony Downs and Mancur Olson, among others."--Dennis J. Encarnation, "American Journal of Sociology

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目录信息

Chapter 1 - Introduction
1. The State of Political Theory
2. The Two Approaches Outlined
3. Ideological Origins: Sociological Approach
4. Ideological Origins: Economic Approach
5. Subjects to be Covered
Chapter II - Political Participation as Rational Action
1. The Decision to Vote: Downs and Riker
2. The Decision to Vote: Limits of the Economic Approach
3. The Basic Logic of Olson's Theory
4. Application of Olson's Theory
5. Participation in Collective Action: Some Explanations
6. Selective Incentives as Explanations
7. Leadership and Collective Action
8. Conditions of Economic Rationality
Chapter III - Values and Stable Democracy: Three Theories
1. Introduction
2. Almond and Verba
3. Eckstein
4. Lipset
Chapter IV - Values and Democratic Stability: the Setting and the Problems
1. Introduction
2. Parsons on the 'Hobbesian Problem'
3. Parsons on Norms and Values
4. Values and Social Order
5. Values as Explanations
6. The Problem of Causal Inference
7. How Important are Values?
Chapter V - The Economic Theory of Democracy
1. The Downsian Model Introduced
2. Information Costs and Strategic Abstention
3. Multi-Party Systems
Chapter VI - Testing Theories of Democracy (1)
1. Issues and Voting Decisions: U.S. Data
2. Issues and Voting Decisions: Non-U.S. Data
3. The Problems of Dimensions
4. What is an Issue?
Chapter VII - Testing Theories of Democracy (2)
1. The Aims of Political Parties
2. The Effects of Party Competition
3. Some Sociological Explanations
4. Justifications of Democracy
Chapter VIII - Conclusion
1. Conceptions of 'Theory'
2. Conceptions of 'System' and 'Equilibrium'
3. Underlying Values
4. Implicit Assumptions
5. Relationship of the Two Approaches
Bibliography (with a Postscript 1978)
Subject Index
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用户评价

pros & cons of 'economic' and 'sociological' approach of political theory. insightful discussion of choice and values, but not deep enough: origins of identity? role of institutions?

pros & cons of 'economic' and 'sociological' approach of political theory. insightful discussion of choice and values, but not deep enough: origins of identity? role of institutions?

pros & cons of 'economic' and 'sociological' approach of political theory. insightful discussion of choice and values, but not deep enough: origins of identity? role of institutions?

pros & cons of 'economic' and 'sociological' approach of political theory. insightful discussion of choice and values, but not deep enough: origins of identity? role of institutions?

pros & cons of 'economic' and 'sociological' approach of political theory. insightful discussion of choice and values, but not deep enough: origins of identity? role of institutions?