ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1963
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Title Man and His Government: An Empirical Theory of Politics
Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company - New York
Publication Date 1963
Binding Hardcover
Edition 1st Edition
Condition Good

MAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT

Man and His Government: An Empirical Theory of Politics is the major work on political theory of Professor Carl Joachim Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University. Based on a distinguished lifetime of research, reflection and writing on politics, its empirical analysis encompasses the data of all men’s political experience. Not only Western and modern but Eastern and ancient governmental ways are drawn on as sources for the empirical theory and its derivative hypothesis of a general science of politics.

Given immediacy by its continuing attention to the problems confronting developing countries and all peoples and governments as they face the task of creating political order, the theory is validated by reference to the classical body of political thought and to the insights of the new quantitative and behavioral approaches to theory. Conditioned by the dissatisfaction attendant upon contemporary attempts to build and rebuild political order, it seeks, in the tradition of Aristotle, the sources of order and the causes of disorder.

Man, seen as a communal being united with his fellows by culturally shared values and beliefs, is central to the discussion. Stressing man’s experience and based on knowledge of him as a political person, the work rejects as inadequate all theories which attempt value-free analyses. Far from being value-free, Professor Friedrich holds that political theory must be belief-oriented and value-concerned. Only in this context, he asserts, may the basic concerns of political theorizing—power, rule and influence, authority, legitimacy and law, justice, equality and freedom—be thoroughly understood. These understandings of the basic processes of politics—the founding of an order, the settling of disputes, the making of rules, succession and all political negotiations—provide the acid test of the truth contained in the understanding of political man and the general propositions of politics.

As a general theory of politics the volume is clearly related to scholarly work in the fields of legal philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology. Scholars and the informed public in each of these areas will find it of particular import as will those whose field of interest is political theory.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

Dr. Friedrich is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University and Professor of Political Science, Juristische Fakultät, the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Philosophy of the Law in Historical Perspective, Age of the Baroque, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (with Z. K. Brzezinski), Constitutional Government and Democracy, Third Edition, and other works.

Professor Friedrich has served as editor of Public Policy (the Yearbook of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Public Administration), and Nomos (the Yearbook of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy). He has had extensive experience as a governmental adviser and consultant, both in the United States and Europe.

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Carl Joachim Friedrich (/ˈfriːdrɪk/; German: [ˈfʀiːdʀɪç]; June 5, 1901 – September 19, 1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist. He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theory, constitutionalism and government made him one of the world`s leading political scientists in the post-World War II period. He is one of the most influential scholars of totalitarianism.



preface vii

introduction: The Theory of Politics as Human Experience 1

note 1. Some Thoughts on System Analysis 24

note 2. Types and Models 28

Part I The Political Person and the Political Act

Man, Common and Uncommon: The Political Person 37

Function, Purpose and Value 53

The Interdependence of Institution, Decision and Policy 70

The Function of Ideas and Ideologies in Politics 83

The Political Myth, Its Symbols and Utopian Order 94

Religion and Ritual 106

Rational Conduct, Organization and Political Style 120

The Dimensions of Political Community 136

Part II The Dimensions of Power and Justice

Power and Leadership 159

Rule and Rulership 180

Influence and the Rule of Anticipated Reactions 199

Political Authority and Reasoning 216

Legitimacy and Political Obligation 232

Justice: The Just Political Act 247

Law and Its Perversion 267

Part III The Dimensions of Equality and Freedom

Political Equality and Its Uses 289

Political Representation and Responsibility 301

The Political Elite and Bureaucracy 315

Order and the Value of Disorder 335

Independence and Participation: Dimensions of Political Freedom 350

Political Innovation and Invention: Creative Freedom 367

Part IV The Governing Processes and Their Modes of Operation

Founding the Political Order 389

Defending and Expanding the Political Community 406

The Settling of Disputes 423

The Making of Rules 443

Taking Measures and Carrying On: Bureaucracy 464

Negotiating a Political Bargain 484

Succession and the Uses of Party 502

Part V Ranges and Levels of Government

The Local Community, Tribe and Region 527

State and Nation: Sovereignty and Its Limits 547

Empire: Coercive World Order 567

Federalism: Convenual World Order 584

Part VI Tradition, Revolution and Reform

Tradition and the Role of Education 613

Resistance and Revolution 634

A Model Political Order and the Emergent World 657

bibliography 677

index 717


Topic
General Politics, Global Politics, Government, International Politics, Political History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Political Science, Political Theory, Social Activists, Social History, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Social Situations, Society, Politcs