Political power : a reader in theory and research (Record no. 13116)

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Classification number 320.4 BEL
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Personal name Bell, Roderick
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Title Political power : a reader in theory and research
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. free Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1969
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Summary, etc. This collection of articles originated in a seminar on political power which the three of us<br/>taught together during the spring of 1968. We all shared an interest in the problems of<br/>theory and methodology in political science, and the literature on power seemed to provide<br/>a good opportunity to confront these problems in a concrete way. It seemed likely to us<br/>that this literature exemplified three of the central problems of scientific method in political<br/>science concept formation, theory construction, and measurement-in a way which<br/>emphasized both the distinctive concerns of the discipline and its underlying unity. These<br/>expectations were fulfilled, and they provide the main justification for this volume. But they<br/>were fulfilled in an unexpected way, which accounts for the particular form this volume has<br/>taken.<br/>To state the matter briefly, we concluded that much of the literature on political power<br/>suffered from an overemphasis on the definition of concepts and measurement techniques,<br/>and an underemphasis of theory. Yet it seems to us that these three tasks must be pursued<br/>simultaneously if any of them are to serve any useful scientific purpose. If a collection of<br/>readings can have any unifying theme, that is the central theme of this book. The essays<br/>by Wagner and Bell argue for this point directly, the first in the course of an examination<br/>of the concept, and the second in the course of a discussion of the relationship between theory<br/>and measurement. And the readings are organized in such a way as to emphasize these<br/>problems.<br/>The articles collected in Section II seem to us to exemplify the concerns of students of<br/>politics which lead one to think seriously about the concept of power in the first place.<br/>The presumption that the distribution of power is the key to many other properties of<br/>political systems is shared by students of all forms of politics from the local to the inter-<br/>national level. But it is notoriously difficult to answer the questions posed by this presumption<br/>in a noncontroversial way.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political science
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Personal name Edwards, David V.
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Personal name Wangner, R. Harrison
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