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On the Autonomy of the Democratic State (Paperback, New Ed)
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On the Autonomy of the Democratic State (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this major revisionist study, Eric A. Nordlinger poses two
critical questions about democratic politics. How are the public
policy decisions of the democratic state in America and Europe to
be explained? To what extent is the democratic state an autonomous
entity, that is, a state that translates its own policy preferences
into public policies? On the Autonomy of the Democratic State
challenges the central assumption of liberal and Marxist scholars,
journalists, and citizens alike-that elected and appointed public
officials are consistently constrained by society in the making of
public policy. Nordlinger demonstrates that public officials are
not only frequently autonomous insofar as they regularly act upon
their own policy preferences, but also markedly autonomous in doing
so even in the face of opposition from the most politically
powerful groups in society: voters, well-organized and financed
interest groups, national associations of farmers, workers,
employers, and large corporations. Here is a book in which
wide-ranging generalizations are tightly bound up with empirical
examples and data. Nordlinger systematically identifies the state's
many capacities and opportunities for enhancing its autonomy. These
are used by public officials to shape, alter, neutralize, deflect,
and resist the policy preferences and pressures of societal groups.
Even the highly fragmented national state in America is shown to be
far more independent of societal demands than claimed by the
conventional wisdom.
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