Arenas of power / Theodore J. Lowi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowi, Theodore J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Power (Social sciences).

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2009]

Summary:

Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi??'s model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship???all in one place. Lowi??'s signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena??????social regulatory policy.??? As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public policy, the system may be turned on its head. This volume shows the evolution of the public policy arena over more than forty years of writing and thinking and presents some never before published material including helpful analytical introductions. The book concludes as Lowi looks ahead to an internationalizing U.S. political economy and the need for a global political science.

Contents:

Introduction : the biography of arenas of power.

Arenas of power : the model. 1. American business, public policy, case studies, and political theory. 2. Four systems of policy, politics, and choice

Public policy, history, and a theory of political development. 3. Parallels of policy and politics : the political theory in American history. 4. American federalism : a demonstration of the categoric character of policy and politics. 5. A new American state and four different Roosevelts. 6. The Europeanization of America? from United States to united state

Bureaucracy and arenas of power. 7. The state in politics : the relation between policy and administration. 8. The case of agriculture : four kinds of policy, four kinds of politics

Economic sectors and collective goods. 9. Interests, politics, and the variety of group experience. 10. Policy choices and political consequences : the case of population control. 11. The perils of patronage : tendencies toward corporatism in the "clientele agencies"

Outside the box, outside the mainstream : the politics of movements, radicalism, and morality in comparative perspective. 12. Prospects of conquest : with liberty and justice for some. 13. New dimensions in policy and politics. 14. Our millennium : political science confronts the global corporate economy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-331) and index.

ISBN:

9781594513305

1594513309

OCLC:

221960996