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Military rule in Latin America : function, consequences, and perspectives
No full textWith one exception, the papers collected in this volume ... were aired for the first time at a conference sponsored by the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Seminar of the Center for Policy Study and held at the University of Chicago, on May 26-27, 1972
Foreign military assistance, national military spending and military rule in Latin America
No full textPotere e istituzioni oggi : corso di lezioni su parlamento, partito, sindacato, burocrazia, informazione, impresa e sistema internazionale
No full textPotere e parlamento / Lelio Basso. -- Potere e partito / Alessandro Pizzorno. -- Potere e sindacato / Vittorio Foa. -- Potere e burocrazia / Ercole Bonacina. -- Potere e informazione / Nicola Tranfaglia. -- Potere e impresa / Gastone Cottino. -- Potere e sistema internazionale / Lucio Libertini
Political sociology : selected readings
No full textIntroduction. -- Part I. On the nature of politics. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 'Parties'. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 'The French revolution'. -- Max Weber, 'Politics as a vocation'. -- David Easton, 'The analysis of political systems'. -- Talcott Parsons, 'Political systems and bureaucracy'. --Jürgen Habermas, 'The scientization of politics and public opinion. -- Part II. The operation of power. -- Karl Marx, 'State power and society'. --Gaetano Mosca, 'The political class'. -- C. Wright Mills, 'The structure of power in American society'. -- Robert A. Dahl, 'A critique of the ruling elite model'. -- Carl Kaysen, 'The corporation : how much power? What scope?'. -- Edward C. Banfield and James Q. Wilson, 'The centralization of influence'. -- Jerzy J. Wiatr and Adam Przeworski, 'Control without opposition'. -- Franz Schurmann, 'The Communist Party and the state'. -- Part III. Groups and parties. -- Samuel H. Beer, 'Group representation in Britain and the United States'. -- Robert Michels, 'Principles and bureaucracy in political parties'. -- Maurice Duverger, 'The origin of parties'. -- Stein Rokkan and Angus Campbell, 'Citizen participation in political life'. -- Seymour M. Lipset, 'Voting behaviour'. -- Part IV. Conflict and change. -- Erik Allardt, 'Types of protests'. -- Antonio Gramsci, 'Political forces in organic crises'. -- Frantz Fanon, 'Spontaneity : its strength and weakness'. -- Alain Touraine, 'The French student movement of May 1968'. -- Michael Walzer, 'The revolution of the saints'
Interest conflict and political change in Brazil
No full textA principal aim of the study is to discover the nature of the relationship between societal development and the propensity for forming, joining, and participating in representative associations. The author describes how interest groups have affected and been affected by industrialization, bureaucratization, urbanization, social mobilization, and increase in the equality of conditions. He also shows how these groups, by exhibiting on a smaller scale the conflict between such values as traditionalism and modernism, religiosity and secularism, corporatism and liberalism, reflect and support the Brazilian political culture as a whole. Finally, he examines the way Brazilian associations have influenced political decision-making during a time of fluctuating policy toward freedom of associatio