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Isolation and Paradox - Defining The Public in Modern Political Analysis (Hardcover)
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Isolation and Paradox - Defining The Public in Modern Political Analysis (Hardcover)
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The controlling idea for this study, and a major theme in classical
and modern social analysis, is the distinction between public and
private sectors in liberal societies. Professor Rusciano's purpose
is to consider how the common ground defined by the use of the
notion public in public opinion and public choice can lead to a
revitalization of the term in modern social analysis. In Chapter 1,
the author shows that no public choice procedure may distinguish
consistently between public and private issues, public and private
goods, and public and private decision rules. He also shows that no
procedure may consistently define the public realm implied by the
term public choice. To illustrate this problem, the author
scrutinizes three paradoxes of public choice: ArroW's General
Possibility theorem, Olson's logic of collective action, and
Barry's problem of legitimizing responsive choice procedures.
Succeeding chapters discuss the definition of public advanced in
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory of public
opinion; elaborate on the notion of public and the Arrow problem;
and apply the theorems derived from Noelle-Neumann's theory to the
three paradoxes of public choice. Chapter 5 theoretically applies
the argument developed in previous chapters to economic behavior
through a critique of Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth and to
the problem of collective action. The chapter concludes with a
formal model and three hypotheses which are tested in Chapters 6
and 7 through empirical analyses of classic problems in collective
action and choice, and as models of a revised notion of social
preference. Finally, the revised notion is illustrated by
observations about consumer behavior, conventions of language, and
the definitions and functions of social and state institutions.
Isolation and Paradox evolved from lectures and seminars delivered
while Professor Rusciano was Visiting Professor at the Institut fur
Publizistik at the University of Mainz, the German Federal
Republic. Political and social scientists, as well as students in
political theory, contemporary political analysis, comparative
politics, public opinion, and political methodology will find this
careful, logical study and its full complement of tables and charts
necessary and informative reading.
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