Policy Networks
... authority (Herrschaft), which may be based on actors’ traditional, charismatic, or rational-legal beliefs in the rightness of their relationship. ...
... authority (Herrschaft), which may be based on actors’ traditional, charismatic, or rational-legal beliefs in the rightness of their relationship. ...
scientific realism
... Foundations of Rational Choice Theory (RCT) RC theorists are divided as to : 1) the substance of their theoretical assumptions, such as whether the rationality assumption is sustainable, how to define self-interest,and the utility of methodological individualism. 2) the scope of RCT in political sci ...
... Foundations of Rational Choice Theory (RCT) RC theorists are divided as to : 1) the substance of their theoretical assumptions, such as whether the rationality assumption is sustainable, how to define self-interest,and the utility of methodological individualism. 2) the scope of RCT in political sci ...
Goal The Justice and Civil Leadership (JCL) major aims to prepare
... administration, focusing on policy issues in the United States. The class is divided into two sections. The first half will deal with theoretical approaches to policymaking process and bureaucracy in government. The second section will cover substantive policy issues including economic and budgetary ...
... administration, focusing on policy issues in the United States. The class is divided into two sections. The first half will deal with theoretical approaches to policymaking process and bureaucracy in government. The second section will cover substantive policy issues including economic and budgetary ...
PPA 419 – Aging Services Administration
... Americans Although older Americans are diverse, on average they will have greater education, higher incomes, and better health than in the past. These factors are associated with greater participation in politics. Thus, it is thought that in the future, the interests of older Americans will sh ...
... Americans Although older Americans are diverse, on average they will have greater education, higher incomes, and better health than in the past. These factors are associated with greater participation in politics. Thus, it is thought that in the future, the interests of older Americans will sh ...
Epistocracy: Conceptual Clarifications.
... I use the term “assumption” since most critics of technocracy are focused on elaborating the limits of the role of (technocratic) knowers and knowledge in decision-making, and so contribute less with regard to how one should conceive of this role more constructively, given that very few would deny t ...
... I use the term “assumption” since most critics of technocracy are focused on elaborating the limits of the role of (technocratic) knowers and knowledge in decision-making, and so contribute less with regard to how one should conceive of this role more constructively, given that very few would deny t ...
Pareto Optimality and the Rule of Law
... produce."28 But we may ask, will they decide this unanimously? The problem persists, possibly in an infinite regress. Any decision process that requires agreement across a society will run aground on the free rider problem. And any compromise with the unanimity requirement fails to preserve the just ...
... produce."28 But we may ask, will they decide this unanimously? The problem persists, possibly in an infinite regress. Any decision process that requires agreement across a society will run aground on the free rider problem. And any compromise with the unanimity requirement fails to preserve the just ...
Fuck Nuance - Kieran Healy
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
the retreat to postmodern politics - Institute for the Radical Imagination
... of democracy consists in legal protections for individual and collective political expression, short of insurrection; a justice system that guarantees individual civil and criminal rights before the law; and representative government in which citizens confer consent on the prevailing system of polit ...
... of democracy consists in legal protections for individual and collective political expression, short of insurrection; a justice system that guarantees individual civil and criminal rights before the law; and representative government in which citizens confer consent on the prevailing system of polit ...
American Political Culture #3 Which of the following statements
... d) Feel alienated from public policy. 73) The sense that one has a say in what government does and that politics is understandable is referred to as a) Political efficacy. b) Political clout. c) Political legitimacy. d) Political participation. 74) One’s own confidence in one’s ability to understan ...
... d) Feel alienated from public policy. 73) The sense that one has a say in what government does and that politics is understandable is referred to as a) Political efficacy. b) Political clout. c) Political legitimacy. d) Political participation. 74) One’s own confidence in one’s ability to understan ...
citizen empowerment using critical theory and conflict transformation
... relation of theory and practice in order to integrate what was right and reject what was false in the complex debate within the social sciences in the 1960s and 70s. He examined social science as natural science and from three contrasting perspectives: analytic philosophy, particularly the “linguist ...
... relation of theory and practice in order to integrate what was right and reject what was false in the complex debate within the social sciences in the 1960s and 70s. He examined social science as natural science and from three contrasting perspectives: analytic philosophy, particularly the “linguist ...
SOC 8311 Basic Social Statistics
... Some power is based on force (coercion). But, if actors willingly assent or consent to obey another’s commands, power becomes legitimate authority (Herrschaft), which may be based on actors’ traditional, charismatic, or rational-legal beliefs in the rightness of their relationship. ...
... Some power is based on force (coercion). But, if actors willingly assent or consent to obey another’s commands, power becomes legitimate authority (Herrschaft), which may be based on actors’ traditional, charismatic, or rational-legal beliefs in the rightness of their relationship. ...
Microeconomics, Political Economy and the Real World
... Neoclassical economics eschews all valuations except that of efficiency as either unscientific or else beyond the proper pale of economic inquiry, on grounds that such values are too controversial or that they are too complex in their determination or their implications. The political economy perspe ...
... Neoclassical economics eschews all valuations except that of efficiency as either unscientific or else beyond the proper pale of economic inquiry, on grounds that such values are too controversial or that they are too complex in their determination or their implications. The political economy perspe ...
905834 - University of Hertfordshire
... is computable in the sense that humans can make sense of ‗what to do in context X given rule Y‘ by social processing via shared knowledge. As such, although a taxonomy of rule forms may help specify both what is possible and even permissible in a given environment, the precise outcome is a function ...
... is computable in the sense that humans can make sense of ‗what to do in context X given rule Y‘ by social processing via shared knowledge. As such, although a taxonomy of rule forms may help specify both what is possible and even permissible in a given environment, the precise outcome is a function ...
Physics 383
... operate; analysis of substantive legal rules and basic processes by which law is made and applied. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. ...
... operate; analysis of substantive legal rules and basic processes by which law is made and applied. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. ...
CHAPTER 11 FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY The group of employees
... Supervising—Department of Defense uses civilian contractors to complete a wide variety of services in Iraq, for example Bureaucratic expertise and its consequences Bureaucrats are experts, in general; more so than members of Congress or the ...
... Supervising—Department of Defense uses civilian contractors to complete a wide variety of services in Iraq, for example Bureaucratic expertise and its consequences Bureaucrats are experts, in general; more so than members of Congress or the ...
Two Responses to the Failings of Modern Economics: the
... conclusions...Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data without being able to advance, in any ...
... conclusions...Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data without being able to advance, in any ...
Chapter 4 of Student Study Notes
... relationship with them and trying to influence them over a period of time. Psychodynamic interventions prefer clients who can express themselves well and take part in discussion and self-examination. This approach is not as suitable for less articulate clients, working-class people, and people with ...
... relationship with them and trying to influence them over a period of time. Psychodynamic interventions prefer clients who can express themselves well and take part in discussion and self-examination. This approach is not as suitable for less articulate clients, working-class people, and people with ...
PDF
... GATT Uruguay Round agreement. By understanding why regions choose the policies they do, the relative importance of key variables affecting policy choice are identified and can be used to anticipate policy responses to major developments, such as the GATT. US and EU dairy policies make an excellent c ...
... GATT Uruguay Round agreement. By understanding why regions choose the policies they do, the relative importance of key variables affecting policy choice are identified and can be used to anticipate policy responses to major developments, such as the GATT. US and EU dairy policies make an excellent c ...
Political Culture & Socialization
... The second level of the political culture involves what the public expects of the political process. Broadly speaking, three different patterns describe the citizens’ role in the political process. ◦ Participants are involved as actual or potential participants in the political process. ◦ Subjects p ...
... The second level of the political culture involves what the public expects of the political process. Broadly speaking, three different patterns describe the citizens’ role in the political process. ◦ Participants are involved as actual or potential participants in the political process. ◦ Subjects p ...
this talk - Cafe Hayek
... The unicorn argument against the market by contrast depends on a common-sense piece of nonsense that after all in this vale of tears no perfect thing can exist. As Kant, the theorist of perfection, said, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was made.” We know such a proposition ...
... The unicorn argument against the market by contrast depends on a common-sense piece of nonsense that after all in this vale of tears no perfect thing can exist. As Kant, the theorist of perfection, said, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was made.” We know such a proposition ...
The Qualitative Foundations of Political Science Methodology
... to concept formation, theory development, and causal complexity than have past works. This is true even when the larger goal remains testing theory from a statistical perspective (as in Geddes). In general, qualitative research attends to these concerns far more carefully than quantitative research, ...
... to concept formation, theory development, and causal complexity than have past works. This is true even when the larger goal remains testing theory from a statistical perspective (as in Geddes). In general, qualitative research attends to these concerns far more carefully than quantitative research, ...
Patience as the Rational Foundation of Sociotropic
... the Homo economicus assumption: self-interest. In the 2012 ANES, for instance, among those who perceived that the national economy got better but personal one went down, 78.3% of them still voted for the incumbent. In contrast, only 28.1% of voters supported the incumbent who observed the decline of ...
... the Homo economicus assumption: self-interest. In the 2012 ANES, for instance, among those who perceived that the national economy got better but personal one went down, 78.3% of them still voted for the incumbent. In contrast, only 28.1% of voters supported the incumbent who observed the decline of ...
PDF - Berghahn Journals
... from them (Gagnon 2014; Isakhan 2012: 8). As a result of this theoretical repetition, some scholars firmly believe that “there are no democratic alternatives to what is routinely called the Western model of democracy, only non-democratic ones” (Alexander 2005: 159). As such theorizing has translated ...
... from them (Gagnon 2014; Isakhan 2012: 8). As a result of this theoretical repetition, some scholars firmly believe that “there are no democratic alternatives to what is routinely called the Western model of democracy, only non-democratic ones” (Alexander 2005: 159). As such theorizing has translated ...
Rational Expectations Coordinating Voting in American Presidential and House Elections
... 1988), Alesina and Rosenthal (1995) use a unidimensional spatial voting model in which individuals coordinate their votes to explain important political and economic phenomena, including the midterm loss phenomenon and election-related uctuations in economic growth. Assuming that each individual's ...
... 1988), Alesina and Rosenthal (1995) use a unidimensional spatial voting model in which individuals coordinate their votes to explain important political and economic phenomena, including the midterm loss phenomenon and election-related uctuations in economic growth. Assuming that each individual's ...