In spite of a cascade of criticism launched against the social
sciences, they have brought a qualitative improvement in method and
theory to the study of human beings and human relations. In the
process of developing now commonplace foundations of social
research few individuals have exercised a greater role in
justifying and enriching social scientific thought and practice
than Harold D. Lasswell.Originally published in 1945 as The
Analysis of Political Behaviour, this extraordinary volume has been
re-titled Legal Education and Public Policy. The selections
acknowledge Lasswell's growing anxieties about a world of
revolution, violence, and terror, and the frailties of law in
addressing such matters. That he did so without recourse to vague
and fatuous appeals to world law and world order is an indication
of how close to empirical realities he remained. Lasswell's essays
fuse the legal and moral in the conduct of public policy. This did
not deter him from arguing the case for and ultimate benefits of
democratic values as a ground for legal thought. Lasswell singles
out the interviewing technique of the psychiatrist, what he calls
'the insight interview' in many of these essays. The Freudian world
opened up the possibilities of analysis to political scientists
who, prior to Lasswell, viewed neuroses in the leaders they studied
but without normative points to measure their own biases.Lasswell's
essays serve as a landmark in accelerating rapid advance in social
science research. It allowed for the evolution of political
behavior that has catapulted the field to a major dimension of
political science studies in leadership and mass persuasion.
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