Poverty Of Amer Pol 2Nd EdTemple University Press, 25/06/2010 - 368 من الصفحات Maintaining that the American political system is not working well enough to inspire confidence that it can meet the challenges o four time, H. Mark Roelofs attributes that failure, not to its practitioners, but to its very design. He sees that system as split between its legitimizing self-image, social democracy, and its operational element, liberal democracy. Based on his novel understanding of the American political system, Roelofs presents a devastating and closely reasoned critique that traces our nation's political ills to fundamental flaws in the very design of its founding principles, the character of its major institutions, and the basic pattern of its processes. Dissecting our political and societal problems, he explains the limitations and basic contributions arising from the social democratic/liberal democratic dichotomy that result in our current political poverty. While Roelofs's analysis remains the same as in the earlier edition, in this revised edition he has sharpened and extended the argument and expanded and updated his illustrative materials. Improved bibliographical citations and new diagrams make the book an even more useful teaching tool. |
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... authority figure ; to use the technical term , I legitimize the power . Second , only then do I obey ; I allow my behavior to be governed by the received commands . In analysis , legitimation ( the dialogue of au- thority acceptance ) ...
... authority figure ; to use the technical term , I legitimize the power . Second , only then do I obey ; I allow my behavior to be governed by the received commands . In analysis , legitimation ( the dialogue of au- thority acceptance ) ...
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... authority relationships right there , made all the more remarkable by two other factors . First , the outlook and programs of the American rebels and their leaders were hardly radical or revolutionary . In fact , in wanting to keep ...
... authority relationships right there , made all the more remarkable by two other factors . First , the outlook and programs of the American rebels and their leaders were hardly radical or revolutionary . In fact , in wanting to keep ...
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... authority . Even while continuing to mull over these instances of the fragility of power constructs in America , think now of an instance where a power construct proved extraordinarily durable . American Black slaves , comparatively ...
... authority . Even while continuing to mull over these instances of the fragility of power constructs in America , think now of an instance where a power construct proved extraordinarily durable . American Black slaves , comparatively ...
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... authorities on the subject suggest that beneath these cultic differentiations is an extraordinary uniformity , a common core of American religiosity . 11 Moreover , this core religiosity can be seen not only as common across the ...
... authorities on the subject suggest that beneath these cultic differentiations is an extraordinary uniformity , a common core of American religiosity . 11 Moreover , this core religiosity can be seen not only as common across the ...
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... subjected to the Will or Authority of any other Man . " That is the authentic central note of bourgeois civilization : that man , being alive and eager , has a claim arising from Copyrighted Material The Protestant / Bourgeois Complex 37.
... subjected to the Will or Authority of any other Man . " That is the authentic central note of bourgeois civilization : that man , being alive and eager , has a claim arising from Copyrighted Material The Protestant / Bourgeois Complex 37.
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II Institutions and OHicers | 87 |
III The Poverty of American Politics | 195 |
Diagrams of the Argument | 259 |
Postscript to the First Edition | 269 |
Postscript to the Second Edition | 271 |
Notes | 275 |
Index | 305 |
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