Arenas of Power: Reflections on Politics and Policy

by Lowi,Theodore J.

• ISBN13: 9781594513305
• ISBN10: 1594513309
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

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'”'œsocial 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Biography of Arenas of Power	p. 1
Arenas of Power: The Model	p. 21
American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies, and Political Theory	p. 25
Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice	p. 43
Public Policy, History, and a Theory of Political Development	p. 59
Parallels of Policy and Politics: The Political Theory in American History	p. 65
American Federalism: A Demonstration of the Categoric Character of Policy and Politics	p. 91
A New American State, and Four Different Roosevelts	p. 111
The Europeanization of America? From United States to United State	p. 126
Bureaucracy and Arenas of Power	p. 137
The State in Politics: The Relation Between Policy and Administration	p. 143
The Case of Agriculture: Four Kinds of Policy, Four Kinds of Politics	p. 166
Economic Sectors and Collective Goods	p. 181
Interests, Politics, and the Variety of Group Experience	p. 188
Policy Choices and Political Consequences: The Case of Population Control	p. 211
The Perils of Patronage: Tendencies Toward Corporatism in the "Clientele Agencies"	p. 234
Outside the Box, Outside the Mainstream: The Politics of Movements, Radicalism, and Morality in Comparative Perspective	p. 257
Prospects of Conquest: With Liberty and Justice for Some	p. 264
New Dimensions in Policy and Politics	p. 277
Our Millennium: Political Science Confronts the Global Corporate Economy	p. 288
Notes	p. 306
Key Publications	p. 332
Index	p. 334
Credits	p. 352
About the Author	p. 353
About the Editor	p. 354
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