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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... human beings . If they were not , how could we explain their corruption and the erosion of their authority ? And if their instability needs explanation at the level of individuals , should not the same type of explanation be offered for ...
... human beings . If they were not , how could we explain their corruption and the erosion of their authority ? And if their instability needs explanation at the level of individuals , should not the same type of explanation be offered for ...
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... Human opinion is directed toward individual facts ( what does my opponent intend to do ? ) , toward general causal connections ( what will reduce inflation ? ) or toward the future ( what will the dollar exchange be in a year's time ...
... Human opinion is directed toward individual facts ( what does my opponent intend to do ? ) , toward general causal connections ( what will reduce inflation ? ) or toward the future ( what will the dollar exchange be in a year's time ...
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... human beings seem to have a deep need to have sufficient reasons for what they do , and an equally deep aversion to situations in which reason gives no clear answer . 27 They often need a belief - some belief or other - more than they ...
... human beings seem to have a deep need to have sufficient reasons for what they do , and an equally deep aversion to situations in which reason gives no clear answer . 27 They often need a belief - some belief or other - more than they ...
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... human nature were both nastier and loftier than the ones adopted at the Federal Convention . Although Hume's assumption of universal knavishness is often thought to represent a worst - case scenario , there are worse things than self ...
... human nature were both nastier and loftier than the ones adopted at the Federal Convention . Although Hume's assumption of universal knavishness is often thought to represent a worst - case scenario , there are worse things than self ...
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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 |