Ideology And The Theory Of Political Choice

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Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice

Author : Melvin J. Hinich
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027395
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice written by Melvin J. Hinich and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology. Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large groups of voters share preference profiles, why they consider themselves "liberals" or "conservatives." The reasons, they argue, lie in the twin problems of communication and commitment that politicians face. Voters, overloaded with information, ignore specific platform positions. Parties and candidates therefore communicate through simple statements of goals, analogies, and by invoking political symbols. But politicians must also commit to pursuing the actions implied by these analogies and symbols. Commitment requires that ideologies be used consistently, particularly when it is not in the party's short-run interest. The model Hinich and Munger develop accounts for the choices of voters, the goals of politicians, and the interests of contributors. It is an important addition to political science and essential reading for all in that discipline. "Hinich and Munger's study of ideology and the theory of political choice is a pioneering effort to integrate ideology into formal political theory. It is a major step in directing attention toward the way in which ideology influences the nature of political choices." --Douglass C. North ". . . represents a significant contribution to the literature on elections, voting behavior, and social choice." --Policy Currents Melvin Hinich is Professor of Government, University of Texas. Michael C. Munger is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina.

Ideology

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019280281X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Ideology written by Michael Freeden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, inciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking, without which we cannot make sense of the political world. The reader is introduced to their vitality and force, utilizing insights from a range of disciplines, and through examining the arguments of the main ideologies.

Ideology and Political Choice

Author : Vernon Van Dyke
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Political Choice written by Vernon Van Dyke and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively and illuminating examination and texturing of current ideologies on the American political landscape. Its gracfully written presentation will bring students to an understanding of the ideological impulses that shape our politics and help determine the country's current direction. I look forward to using it in my classes for its intelligence, its content, and its clarity." —Joel H. Silbey Cornell University

Ideologies and Political Theory

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198275323
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Ideologies and Political Theory written by Michael Freeden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideologies play a crucial role in the way the political world is shaped. Using the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA, this work examines political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, feminism and green politics.

Ideology and Politics

Author : John Schwarzmantel
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849202710
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Politics written by John Schwarzmantel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′Successfully challenges the notion that we live in a post-ideological age. John Schwarzmantel searchingly questions the thesis that only single issues and identities matter, providing a reliable compass to help students navigate through a world that has witnessed the death of Communism and the rise of neo-liberal hegemony′ - Jules Townshend, Professor of Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University This book challenges the idea of post-ideological consensus and offers a fresh perspective on the current state of political ideologies. With ′traditional′ political ideologies, such as liberalism, socialism, nationalism and conservatism, perceived to be in crisis, it assesses: - Their continued relevance in the context of globalisation and of scepticism towards ideological thinking - The challenges posed by ′new′ ideologies such as ecologism and feminism - The implications of new social movements and ideas of community and multiculturalism for the traditional Left-Right political framework. Ideology and Politics presents an accessible account of a new era of ideological politics, where the dominant neo-liberalism has spawned a diverse global range of ′ideologies of opposition′. It situates these radical frameworks of change and protest in relation to more traditional ′anti′ ideologies and seeks to re-establish the relevance of ideologies for political action in the contemporary world. This text will be core reading for students of politics at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia

Author : Norman Wintrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351774727
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia by : Norman Wintrop

Download or read book Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia written by Norman Wintrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This text contends that there are pronounced ideological (apologetic) and utopian biases in how democracy is now viewed by most academic writers, politicians and journalists. Ideological biases result from democracy being seen in formal and procedural ways as parliaments, free elections and competitive parties and pressure groups - irrespective of the standards which guide or the effects produced by these procedures. Utopian democrats reject this narrow empiricism for normative approaches and, instead of realistic norms, they offer impractical, perfectionist and counter-productive standards and goals. As the alternative to ideology and utopia, the author builds upon and draws conclusions from a realistic and normative, public philosophic tradition of writing on democratic politics. This tradition is explained and illustrated by critical responses to Walter Lippman's conception of public philosophy, Lippman's activity as a public philosopher, and the work of major democratic theorists from Alexis de Tocqueville to Giovanni Sartori.

Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics

Author : Melvin J. Hinich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475751273
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics by : Melvin J. Hinich

Download or read book Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics written by Melvin J. Hinich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations. It intends to provoke a conscious effort to compare, and investigate, the public choice of comparative politics. There have been many publications by public choice scholars, and many more by researchers who are at least sympathetic to the public choice perspective, yet little of this work has been integrated into the main stream of comparative political science literature. This work, however, presents an empirically oriented study of the politics, bureaucratic organization, and regulated economies of particular nations in the canon of the comparativist. It therefore provides a public choice view at the level of nations, not of systems. This compendium of work on comparative politics meets two criteria: In every case, a model of human behavior or institutional impact is specified; Also in every case, this model is confronted with data appropriate for evaluating whether this model is useful for understanding politics in one or more nations.

Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Political Choice

Author : Roland M Czada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000307166
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Political Choice written by Roland M Czada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, subtitled "political actors in institutional settings", addresses the main lines of reasoning of the new political institutionalism and rational choice theory. It discusses the question: Which particular rules, logics, or strategies of action can be found in the realm of politics?

The Limits of Public Choice

Author : Lars Udehn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134802021
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Public Choice written by Lars Udehn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public choice has been one of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. However there are many people who are frustrated by the uncritical importing of ideas from economics into political science. Public Choice uses both empirical evidence and theoretical analysis to argue that the economic theory of politics is limited in scope and fertility. In order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of political life, political scientists must learn from both economists and sociologists.

Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy

Author : Mikayla Novak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783031394577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy written by Mikayla Novak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the tension between reason and sentiment in democracies and its contribution to the decline of liberalism. Bringing together classical liberal scholars with a deep knowledge of public choice ideas, the chapters delve into this tension from a variety of perspectives. Building on the principle of entangled political economy, as articulated by Richard E. Wagner, this volume engages with new facets of the relationship between choice and consequence and their implications for democratic politics. Advocating for a reframing of public choice theory as compatible with civic republicanism, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of public choice, political economy, political theory, governance, and economic policy.

Politics from Anarchy to Democracy

Author : Irwin Lester Morris
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804745840
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Politics from Anarchy to Democracy written by Irwin Lester Morris and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the study of politics dates to ancient Greece, the basic questions that interested those earliest political scientists still linger with us today: What are the origins of government? What should government do? What conditions foster effective governance? Rational choice theory offers a new means for developing correctable answers to these questions. This volume illustrates the promise of rational choice theory and demonstrates how theory can help us develop interesting, fresh conclusions about the fundamental processes of politics. Each of the books three sections begins with a pedagogical overview that is accessible to those with little knowledge of rational choice theory. The first group of essays then discusses various ways in which rational choice contributes to our understanding of the foundations of government. The second set focuses on the contributions of rational choice theory to institutional analysis. The final group demonstrates ways in which rational choice theory helps to understand the character of popular government.

Rational Choice and Political Power

Author : Dowding, Keith
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529206340
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Rational Choice and Political Power written by Dowding, Keith and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a substantial new introduction and two new chapters in the Postscript, this new edition makes one of the most significant works on power available in paperback and online for the first time. The author extensively engages with a body of new literature to elucidate and expand upon the original work, using rational choice theory to provide: • An examination of how, due to the collective action problem, groups can be powerless despite not facing any resistance • Timely engagement with feminist accounts of power • An explanation of the relationship of structure and agency and how to measure power comparatively across societies This book’s unique interaction with both classical and contemporary debates makes it an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying power in the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, politics or international relations.

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121980X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Politics, and Economics written by Gerald Gaus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE—philosophy, politics, and economics—coauthored by one of the field’s pioneers Philosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of analysis that PPE students need to study social and political issues. This fully updated and expanded edition examines the core methodologies of rational choice, strategic analysis, norms, and collective choice that serve as the bedrocks of political philosophy and the social sciences. The textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and nonspecialists looking to familiarize themselves with PPE’s approaches. Starting with individual choice, the book develops an account of rationality to introduce readers to decision theory, utility theory, and concepts of welfare economics and consumer choice theory. It moves to strategic choice in game theory to explore such issues as bargaining theory, repeated games, and evolutionary game theory. The text also considers how social norms can be understood, observed, and measured. Concluding chapters address collective choice, social choice theory and democracy, and public choice theory’s connections to voters, representatives, and institutions. Rigorous and comprehensive, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics continues to be an essential text for this popular and burgeoning field. The only book that covers the entirety of PPE methods A rigorous, nontechnical introduction to decision theory, game theory, and positive political theory A philosophical introduction to rational choice theory in the social sciences

The Political Theory of Political Thinking

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611948
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Political Theory of Political Thinking written by Michael Freeden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequently asked by political theorists, or is dealt with through generalizations, abstractions, and dichotomies. This study examines the actual, real-world patterns people display when thinking politically, identifying six features of political thinking. They include the role of making ultimate decisions and regulating all social affairs, ranking collective priorities, mobilizing support for groups or withholding it, conceptualizing social order and stability as well as disorder and instability, projecting future visions and constructing plans for a society, and engaging the power aspects embedded in language, by means of reason, rhetoric, emotion or menace. Concurrently the untidiness and occasional failures of thinking politically are acknowledged alongside its quest for neatness. A large number of case studies is employed, drawn both from professional political theorists and philosophers and from various instances of vernacular usage: politicians, political commentators, or protest groups. Both contemporary and historical evidence from different cultures is utilized in illustrating the theoretical framework of the book. This is the first systematic study of political thinking as a cluster of thought-practices, combining insights from political theory—traditional and recent—the study of language and discourse, and political science. This investigation of 'the political' as a mode of thinking challenges many conventional understandings of political thought in the current literature, teases out what is political—not philosophical or ethical—in political theory, and locates it as a complex and ubiquitous social practice present at all points of human interaction and at diverse levels of articulation.

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459163
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection written by Michael Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.

Ideology: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577707
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Ideology: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Freeden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores the changing understandings of ideology as a concept, and the arguments of the main ideologies. By employing the latest insights from a range of disciplines, the reader is introduced to the vitality and force of a crucial resource at the disposal of societies, through which sense and purpose is assigned to the political world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.