Arenas of power.

9781594513305

Arenas of power.

Lowi, Theodore J. Ed. by Norman K. Nicholson.

Paradigm Publishers

2009

354 pages

$99.00

Hardcover

H97

Lowi (American institutions, Cornell U.) examines how the science of group theory moved from the study of pluralism to the study of the plural forms of pluralism and how it now applies to globalism. He shows how the study of constitutional, governmental, and political history was formed and provided a model of the use of power in public policy, and provided parallels between policy and politics, and thence between bureaucracy and arenas of power. He works through the concepts of special interest politics as they reflect the variety of group experience, policy choices and political consequences, the perils of patronage and clientele agencies, the politics of movements outside the mainstream, radicalism, morality in a comparative perspective, and the relation of economics to power. He closes with insights about how after all this political science confronts tensions within a global corporate economy.

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