Reviews for The politics of confrontation

The average rating for The politics of confrontation based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-23 00:00:00 Lorrie Rockman A few interesting readings The book came out in 1984 Contains the 20 page essay Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington ---- i'll throw just a few of the essays as a sampler Part One STRUCTURE The Market as Prison An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy Political Aspects of Full Employment The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State Part Two CONDUCT The New Public Philosophy: Interest Group Liberalism The Politics of Regulation - James Q. Wilson The Appearance and Disappearance of the American Voter - Burnham What Have You Done For Me Lately? Towards an Investment Theory of Voting Money and Power: The New Political Economy of American Elections Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century - Samuel P. Huntington Flagellating the Federal Bureacracy Part Three PERFORMANCE Economic Power and and Political Influence: The Impact of Industry Structure on Public Policy Why We Buy the Weapons We Do - James R. Kurth Competitive Party Democracy and the Keynesian Welfare State: Factors of Stability and Disorganization --- Notes to Students and the General Reader With few exceptions, the essays in this collection have been specially edited to make them accessible to you. Texts have been shortened or condensed to make their main argument clearer and many footnotes have been pruned. We have also prefaced each essay with a headnote that introduces each article's leading points or puts its argument in context. We would strongly urge you to read these headnotes before tackling the articles, since they might help you through a few occasionally difficult or obscure passages. Once you are confident you have understood a particular piece, it is our hope that you will then go on and evaluate it. At this stage you may find it helpful to compare its analysis with the arguments of the other essays in the book that treat the same broad subject, or with some other work you are reading or class or for pleasure. When you do this, however, you should remember that the essays in this book by no means represent the same point of view, and that no human being could possibly agree with all of them. Since we consider the ability to think critically one of the most important values of an educated person, we hope that you not only are not disturbed by this but actually come to enjoy it. However you feel about it, this state of affairs accurately reflects a fact that you must inevitably come to terms with that violently clashing views about the relation of economics and politics pervade American politics, and that you have to make up your own mind. When you do, we hope that you find the essays in this book helpful.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-05 00:00:00 Joanne Northcott Interesting take on the policy making process. Definitely thought provoking, even though I disgree with some the suppositions, arguments, and conclusions in the book.