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| List of Tables | ||
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| Notes on the Contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction: The Comparative Observation of Government Activity | 1 |
| 2 | Throwing Money and Heaving Bodies: Heuristic Callisthenics for Comparative Policy Buffs | 13 |
| 3 | Patterns of Post-War Expenditure Priorities in Ten Democracies | 26 |
| 4 | Case Interdependence and Non-Activity in Response to Pressures for Activity | 48 |
| 5 | Laws and the Distribution of Power in Society | 70 |
| 6 | Comparative Textual Analyses of Government and Party Activity: The Work of the Manifesto Research Group | 82 |
| 7 | The Suitability of Several Models for Comparative Analysis of the Polity Process | 101 |
| 8 | Methodological Individualism and the U-Shaped Curve: Some Theoretical Guidelines for the Comparative Analysis of Public Policy | 118 |
| 9 | Politico-Economic Models and the Economic Theory of Government Behaviour: Some Problems and Results | 139 |
| 10 | The Developmental State: Governance, Comparison and Culture in the 'Third World' | 159 |
| 11 | Accumulation, Aggregation and Eclecticism in Political Science: A Case Study of Foreign Policy Analysis | 179 |
| Index | 198 |
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Gary Moore
reviewed Comparing government activity on July 11, 2014 Comparing government activity
A solid collection of Davidson's work on subjectivity, knowledge, language, and truth. It's hard to get a grip on Davidson given the scope and range of his work; my interest in this volume was the collection of essays in the final section, which begin with his thoughts on the coherence theory of truth (and his later change of heart about coherentism).
The ideas Davidson sets out about truth, and its relation to knowledge, belief, and meaning, are complex and powerful. He is, unfairly I think, lumped in with Rorty (a thinker who is himself often misunderstood) as a "relativist", but reading Davidson's thoughts on what subjectivists about truth get right, I do not see this at all. Davidson's agreement with Rorty is in the denial of skepticism; they differ on the point of whether "what is truth?" is a question worth pursuing. Davidson thinks so, and in spelling out why, he arrives at a position which turns on the nature of mind and the very idea of a distinction between "knower" and "known".
There is a lot to digest here, and even more in the other collections in this series. Not for the philosophically-untrained, but there may be some value for those inclined to a challenge.
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