Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge: Robert A. Dahl and His Critics on Modern PoliticsAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011 - 374 Seiten Here, Hans Blokland examines the pluralist conception of politics and democracy as formulated by Robert A. Dahl and his critiques. In doing so he analyses the limits of the political system on which this notion of civil society is based, and links its limitations to differentiation, individualization and rationalization. |
Inhalt
The Behavioralist Mood | 5 |
An American Preamble | 9 |
Appropriate Social Techniques and the End of Ideology | 48 |
Foreign Policy and Political Competence | 51 |
The Price System | 80 |
Bargaining | 92 |
Improved Social Techniques to Realize the Enlightenment Project | 104 |
1 | 125 |
A Logical Analysis of Polyarchy | 149 |
1 | 158 |
Arguments in Defense of Democratic Participation | 199 |
Power and Powerlessness Under Polyarchy | 241 |
Epistemological Reservations | 275 |
Modern Political Science and Rationalization | 309 |
Modern and Oldfashioned Politics | 319 |
Bibliography | 343 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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