Legitimacy in the Modern StateTransaction Publishers, 1981 M01 1 - 359 páginas This analysis of the concept of authority in Western society constitutes a central work in political sociology and a fundamental critique of the process of modernization. Schaar proposes that legitimate authority is declining in the modern state. Law and order, in a very real sense, is the basic political issue of our time -- one that conservatives have understood with greater clarity than their liberal adversaries. Schaar sees what were once authoritative institutions and ideas yielding to technological and bureaucratic orders. The later brings physical comfort and a sense of collective power, but does not provide political liberty or moral autonomy. As a result, he argues, all modern states exhibiting this transformation of authority into technology are well advanced along the path of a crisis of legitimacy. |
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... idea , " " my view , " " my understanding , " for " my idea , " of course , is usually something borrowed from a lender now conveniently forgotten . The largest of the debts I have incurred among my contemporaries are as much the debts ...
... idea , " " my view , " " my understanding , " for " my idea , " of course , is usually something borrowed from a lender now conveniently forgotten . The largest of the debts I have incurred among my contemporaries are as much the debts ...
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... idea spawns another , and soon ideas , the thinker's ideas , come to seem the only reality . But the concerns and realities of others are pressingly present in good political thinking : such thinking is always what Hannah Arendt called ...
... idea spawns another , and soon ideas , the thinker's ideas , come to seem the only reality . But the concerns and realities of others are pressingly present in good political thinking : such thinking is always what Hannah Arendt called ...
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... ideas to reorder the world . Political theory is con- cerned with action , but it is also in part a substitute for action . Even as a substitute , however , the theorists ' ideas have never been presented with a merely or even mainly ...
... ideas to reorder the world . Political theory is con- cerned with action , but it is also in part a substitute for action . Even as a substitute , however , the theorists ' ideas have never been presented with a merely or even mainly ...
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... ideas and beliefs in the construction of " reality , " the political theorists offer material that can help the student toward an understanding that the currently dominant ( scien- tific ) conception of truth , or of true knowledge , is ...
... ideas and beliefs in the construction of " reality , " the political theorists offer material that can help the student toward an understanding that the currently dominant ( scien- tific ) conception of truth , or of true knowledge , is ...
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... ideas is taking place today . The causes and consequences of this movement have been treated in a thousand books , articles , and speeches , and no literate person can be unaware of the main analyses and proposed solutions . The essay ...
... ideas is taking place today . The causes and consequences of this movement have been treated in a thousand books , articles , and speeches , and no literate person can be unaware of the main analyses and proposed solutions . The essay ...
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The Uses of Literature for the Study of Politics The Case of Melvilles Benito Cereno | 53 |
Review of Diana Trillings We Must March My Darlings | 89 |
The American Amnesia | 99 |
America the Homogeneous | 109 |
The Circles Of Watergate Hell | 117 |
Reflections on Rawls A Theory of Justice | 145 |
Equality of Opportunity and Beyond | 193 |
Equality of Opportunity and the Just Society | 211 |
And The Pursuit of Happiness | 231 |
Insiders and Outsiders | 251 |
Violence in Juvenile Gangs | 273 |
The Case for Patriotism | 285 |
Power and Purity | 313 |
Decadence and Revitalization Reflections on the Present Condition | 331 |
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Página 220 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Página 134 - The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Página 154 - Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle, and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.
Página 292 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war.
Página 154 - Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.
Página 233 - NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will.
Página 84 - Though in general not very demonstrative to his officers, he had congratulated Lieutenant Ratcliffe upon his good fortune in lighting on such a fine specimen of the genus homo, who in the nude might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall.
Página 20 - Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society.
Página 134 - Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood : it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their...