Dixon and his colleagues provide a behaviorist perspective on governance. Their concern is with the governed's responses to those who seek to govern them-their governors-and the counter responses that they induce from the governors. They take as axiomatic that the governed are not a homogenized and amorphus them in the them-us dichotomy, reduced to what Carlyle called a dead logic formula, thereby, for the purpose of this analysis, leave begging all the relevant questions.
The governed are not a disembodied abstraction; they are an aggregate of men and women of flesh and blood. In a...
Dixon and his colleagues provide a behaviorist perspective on governance. Their concern is with the governed's responses to those who seek to gover...
