Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9781461295044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 348 str.

Banfield, Edward

Opis

Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None has been taken from one of my books. A would-be reader would have to go to much trouble to find them; that is the reason for bringing them together. Collections of essays are frequently miscellanies. This one is not. Except for the final two chapters, all deal with some aspect of the American political system. Some have to do with the structure and functioning of the federal system, others with the nature of publi(}-and incidentally other-organization, and still others with the causes and supposed cures of the social problems that government is nowadays expected to solve or cope with. The two final chapters are about the relationship between economics and political science; for lack of a better term they may be methodological.

Spis treści

I. Compromise and Reform.- 1. Federalism and the Dilemma of Popular Government.- 2. In Defense of the American Party System.- 3. Party “Reform” in Retrospect.- II. Democratic Policymakers.- 4. Making a New Federal Program.- 5. Evaluating a Federal Program.- 6. Revenue Sharing in Theory and Practice.- III. Politics versus Administration.- 7. Policy Science as Metaphysical Madness.- 8. Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization.- 9. Ends and Means in Planning.- 10. The Training of the Executive.- IV. The Capacities of Local Government.- 11. The Political Implications of Metropolitan Growth.- 12. The City and the Revolutionary Tradition.- 13. A Critical View of the Urban Crisis.- 14. The Zoning of Enterprise.- V. Three Problems for Democracy.- 15. Present Orientedness and Crime.- 16. How Many, and Who, Should Be Set at Liberty?.- 17. The Dangerous Goodness of Democracy.- VI. Political Economizing.- 18. Some Alternatives for the Public Library.- 19. Economic Analysis of Political Problems.- 20. Are Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus Kin?.