Workbook for comparative government (Record no. 2795)

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International Standard Book Number 297994042
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Classification number 320.3 Blo
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Personal name Blondel, Jean
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Title Workbook for comparative government
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1972
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Extent 172p.
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Summary, etc. In the last twenty years, political science has become more systematie: theoretical<br/>studies and empirical work have increasingly converged and it is becoming<br/>accepted that studies, even of an individual case, should not merely describe this<br/>case or even state the general lesson which can be drawn from it, but suggest the<br/>theoretical hypotheses which they attempt to test. This move has been part-<br/>icularly helpful to the discipline; we can now view the study of politics in terms<br/>of a gradual build-up: questions of major theoretical and practical importance can<br/>be tackled in the hope that, with time and, of course, luck, answers will be found<br/>and difficulties settled.<br/>In order to increase the pace of this development, it is of the utmost<br/>importance that we should streamline our analysis and look for underlying<br/>relationships; we can no longer be satisfied, if we are to progress, with an<br/>examination of the conditions which may or may not lead to a particular<br/>situation; we can no longer simply list a number of concrete characteristics which,<br/>in a given context, help to account for an occurrence. We must be more general.<br/>Whether in the study of governments or in connection with political activity in<br/>general, we must strive, however painfully at the start, to assess the direction<br/>which events will take if a variable is at play, to see how variables combine to<br/>increase their effect, or to state whether, by their interference, they stop or<br/>reduce this effect. It is with this aim in mind that this workbook was prepared.<br/>An Introduction to Comparative Government looks at the problem of government<br/>as systematically and as generally as the level of our knowledge of governments<br/>allows us at present; it describes a series of relationships and accounts for their<br/>occurrence. The workbook is designed to help to focus on these relationships and,<br/>once they are discovered and understood, to apply to particular cases the mode of<br/>thinking which has been acquired. The aim is not to amass knowledge; it is to<br/>become acquainted with the type of approach with which one has to look at<br/>problems of government. We must think in terms of gymnastics or, in a more<br/>lofty fashion, of training, if we are to benefit truly from the move towards<br/>theory. We need training not only in those techniques which political science<br/>mercifully began to use on a much wider scale in the course of the last decades;<br/>but also in the logic of the governmental and political process which, unfortun-<br/>ately but unavoidably, has too often and for too long given to the discipline the<br/>appearance of a long list of recipes drawn, somewhat haphazardly, from the bag<br/>of human experience.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Comparative government.
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Personal name Herman, Valentine
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