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The Transformation of Democracy (Paperback)
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The Transformation of Democracy (Paperback)
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Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and
early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto
with a highly read-able English translation of Pareto's last
monograph, "Generalizations," origi-nally published in 1920, this
work illus-trates precisely how and why demo-cratic forms of
government undergo decay and are eventually re-invigo-rated. More
than any other social scien-tist of his generation, Pareto offers a
well-developed, articulate, and com-pelling theory of change based
on a Newtonian vision of science and an en-gineering model of
social equilibrium. In his introduction, Powers focusses on
Pareto's intellectual maturation and on his overall theory of
society. Powers describes the various stages of Pareto's
development as engineer, economist, political scientist, and
finally as sociol-ogist. He explains how Pareto consid-ered himself
the Einstein of social sci-ence and how he introduced the con-cept
of relativity into the social sci-ences. Even if such self-claims
were rarely widely shared, the sense of Pareto's originality is
doubted by few, if any, contemporary scholars. This last, and in
many ways most penetrat-ing, of Pareto's briefer works, warns of
the dangers which can befall demo-cratic order. It is important
because, as his final attempt to clarify his ideas, it places his
earlier works in perspective. Pareto generates a comprehensive
the-ory of complex social phenomena.
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