Political PsychologyCambridge University Press, 1993 M01 29 - 204 páginas This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he argues for an important distinction in the social sciences between mechanisms and theories. Third, he illustrates those general principles of political psychology through readings of three outstanding political psychologists: the French classical historian, Paul Veyne; the Soviet dissident writer, Alexander Zinoviev; the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville. |
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... believe that the world is as he would like it to be is thereby providing an example of what he is denying . On the other hand , analysis suggests that in the case of self - deception , the same proposition is both affirmed and denied ...
... believe that the world is as he would like it to be is thereby providing an example of what he is denying . On the other hand , analysis suggests that in the case of self - deception , the same proposition is both affirmed and denied ...
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... believe we can identify several needs of this kind . First , there is the need to find a purpose – an end , a function – even in the tiniest things . This may give rise to a theoretical functionalism or to psychoanalytical conjectures ...
... believe we can identify several needs of this kind . First , there is the need to find a purpose – an end , a function – even in the tiniest things . This may give rise to a theoretical functionalism or to psychoanalytical conjectures ...
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... believe to be some important modi- fications . In this subsection I indicate how , in an unstable political situation , interaction between subjects and subjects , and between subjects and the ruler , can snowball and destroy the ...
... believe to be some important modi- fications . In this subsection I indicate how , in an unstable political situation , interaction between subjects and subjects , and between subjects and the ruler , can snowball and destroy the ...
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... believe , help us to identify the mechanisms that we can expect to see at work in any revolutionary situation , thus offering an intermediate degree of generality . I do not claim to have provided an exhaustive list , but neither do I ...
... believe , help us to identify the mechanisms that we can expect to see at work in any revolutionary situation , thus offering an intermediate degree of generality . I do not claim to have provided an exhaustive list , but neither do I ...
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Contenido
A HISTORIAN AND THE IRRATIONAL A READING OF BREAD AND CIRCUSES | 35 |
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NEGATION AN ESSAY IN IBANSKIAN SOCIOLOGY | 70 |
TOCQUEVILLES PSYCHOLOGY I | 101 |
TOCQUEVILLES PSYCHOLOGY II | 136 |
REFERENCES | 192 |
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Términos y frases comunes
achieve action actors American analysis anomie argued argument aristocracy assembly asserts atheism attitude authority behavior believe Bread and Circuses Catch 22 causal cause Chapter citizens cognitive compensation effect constitution contradiction contradictory crowding-out effect Democracy in America democratic societies discussion distinction Elster emperor envy equality euergetism example explain external negation fact Federal Convention framers function functionalist give habits hand Hegel Ibansk Ibanskian idea ideology important indifference curve individual instance interest internal lack latter laws less logic means mechanisms mental methodological individualism mind modal logic motivations myopia notables object observation offers Old Regime oligarch one's opinion paradoxical passage passions phenomenon political psychology possible preferences principle proposition rational reason religion revolution revolutionary self-interest slave slavery sometimes spillover effect taste tendency tends theory Tocqueville 1955 Tocqueville's Veyne Veyne's vote Yawning Heights Zinoviev
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Página 32 - Had the members committed themselves publicly at first, they would have afterwards supposed consistency required them to maintain their ground, whereas by secret discussion no man felt himself obliged to retain his opinions any longer than he was satisfied of their propriety and truth, and was open to the force of argument.
Página 33 - That combination obviously may be undesirable. A main task of a constituent assembly is to strike the proper balance of power between the legislative and the executive branches of government. To assign that task to an assembly that also serves as a legislative body would be to ask it to act as judge in its own cause. A constitution written by a legislative assembly might be expected to give excessive powers to the legislature.
Referencias a este libro
Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory Peter Hedström,Richard Swedberg Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory Peter Hedström,Richard Swedberg Vista previa limitada - 1998 |