David M Ricci
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Ricci |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ricci |
| SIGNATURE | RICCI D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Defending Democracy
To defeat demagogues like Donald Trump, citizens must vote to defend democracy, otherwise it will not be there to defend them. Taking off from Max Weber's 'Vocation Lectures,' David Ricci's Defending Democracy therefore explores the idea of 'citizenship as a vocation,' which is a commitment to defending democracy by supporting leaders who will govern according to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truths rather than animosity and pola…
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalizati…
Politics Without Stories
Why conservatives tell stories and liberals don't
Why do conservatives tell stories? Because it helps them win elections and assail liberal policies like health care reform and economic stimulus. Why is important, but the what and the how behind the stories that conservatives tell are equally interesting, and in this new book, David Ricci reveals all. He shows how conservative activists and candidates tell many tales that come together to project a large-scale story; a cultural narrative; a visi…
Political science and conservative ideas
Leading political science journals publish few articles about the ideas that animate modern American conservatives. Perhaps this is because the subject cannot be investigated as rigorously as we would like. There are too many conservatives publishing too many books and articles for anyone to know for sure exactly which—the authors or the books—are crucial to the subject; conservative concerns sometimes vary along with electoral imperatives; peopl…
Washington Think Tanks and the Chaos of Policy Making
It is clear to historians of the recent era that a watershed of sorts occurred between 1954 and 1968 in the history of the United States, bringing an end to the postwar political consensus, and creating new political arrangements and new political values. The changes were not only ideological, but functional. Government, in the sense of policy-formation out of a political process, worked differently before and after this watershed. Since the 1970…
The Transformation of American Politics
Part 1 Introduction: Thinking About Think Tanks. Part 2 Expertise: From Knowledge to Politics. Part 3 Dissonance: Currents of Moral Uncertainty. Part 4 Marketing: Television, Newspapers, and the News. Part 5 Disorder: Political Transformations The New Washington. Part 6 The New Political System: The Rise of Think Tanks The Politics of Ideas. Part 7 Think Tanks and Wisdom The Great Conversation
The Transformation of American Politics
Journal Article The Transformation of American Politics: The New Washington and the Rise of Think Tanks. By David M. Ricci. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. x, 310 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-30005340-1.) Get access Judith Sealander Judith Sealander Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 826–8…
Disciplinary Problems
That Noble Science of Politics
The tragedy of political science
Receiving Ideas in Political Analysis
M .ORE THAN a decade has passed since Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).1 During that time, many members of our discipline have acquainted themselves with his basic view and agree that the theory of scientific revolutions offers helpful insights into the way in which any community of scholars, including political scientists, goes about its work. Despite a high regard for Kuhn's book, however, not all political scien…
Reading Thomas Kuhn in the Post-Behavioral Era
(1962)1 is the second most frequently used book in political science courses on scope and methods.2 This ranking reflects two realities. For one thing, it shows that even a decade after Kuhn's work appeared, many political scientists still regard it as having something important to say about what we are doing professionally. In this sense, we share with many other students of society a feeling that the Kuhnian idea of science is an extraordinaril…
Community Power and Democratic Theory
Democracy Attenuated
Fabian Socialism
During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Britain, Fabians stood out among socialists as diverging from the Marxian view. Fabians rejected Karl Marx's analysis of surplus value, the most widely accepted and influential socialistic theory of capitalist exploitation. In its place the Fabian Society expounded an entirely distinct notion of exploitation, a radical theory of rent. That theory led to a program for the electoral ov…
The tragedy of political science
The Transformation of American Politics
Journal Article The Transformation of American Politics: The New Washington and the Rise of Think Tanks. By David M. Ricci. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. x, 310 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-30005340-1.) Get access Judith Sealander Judith Sealander Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 826–8…
Democracy Attenuated
Fabian Socialism
During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Britain, Fabians stood out among socialists as diverging from the Marxian view. Fabians rejected Karl Marx's analysis of surplus value, the most widely accepted and influential socialistic theory of capitalist exploitation. In its place the Fabian Society expounded an entirely distinct notion of exploitation, a radical theory of rent. That theory led to a program for the electoral ov…
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalizati…
Reading Thomas Kuhn in the Post-Behavioral Era
(1962)1 is the second most frequently used book in political science courses on scope and methods.2 This ranking reflects two realities. For one thing, it shows that even a decade after Kuhn's work appeared, many political scientists still regard it as having something important to say about what we are doing professionally. In this sense, we share with many other students of society a feeling that the Kuhnian idea of science is an extraordinaril…
Political science and conservative ideas
Leading political science journals publish few articles about the ideas that animate modern American conservatives. Perhaps this is because the subject cannot be investigated as rigorously as we would like. There are too many conservatives publishing too many books and articles for anyone to know for sure exactly which—the authors or the books—are crucial to the subject; conservative concerns sometimes vary along with electoral imperatives; peopl…
Fabian Socialism
During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Britain, Fabians stood out among socialists as diverging from the Marxian view. Fabians rejected Karl Marx's analysis of surplus value, the most widely accepted and influential socialistic theory of capitalist exploitation. In its place the Fabian Society expounded an entirely distinct notion of exploitation, a radical theory of rent. That theory led to a program for the electoral ov…
Democracy Attenuated
Community Power and Democratic Theory
Reading Thomas Kuhn in the Post-Behavioral Era
(1962)1 is the second most frequently used book in political science courses on scope and methods.2 This ranking reflects two realities. For one thing, it shows that even a decade after Kuhn's work appeared, many political scientists still regard it as having something important to say about what we are doing professionally. In this sense, we share with many other students of society a feeling that the Kuhnian idea of science is an extraordinaril…
Receiving Ideas in Political Analysis
M .ORE THAN a decade has passed since Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).1 During that time, many members of our discipline have acquainted themselves with his basic view and agree that the theory of scientific revolutions offers helpful insights into the way in which any community of scholars, including political scientists, goes about its work. Despite a high regard for Kuhn's book, however, not all political scien…
The tragedy of political science
That Noble Science of Politics
Disciplinary Problems
Washington Think Tanks and the Chaos of Policy Making
It is clear to historians of the recent era that a watershed of sorts occurred between 1954 and 1968 in the history of the United States, bringing an end to the postwar political consensus, and creating new political arrangements and new political values. The changes were not only ideological, but functional. Government, in the sense of policy-formation out of a political process, worked differently before and after this watershed. Since the 1970…
The Transformation of American Politics
Part 1 Introduction: Thinking About Think Tanks. Part 2 Expertise: From Knowledge to Politics. Part 3 Dissonance: Currents of Moral Uncertainty. Part 4 Marketing: Television, Newspapers, and the News. Part 5 Disorder: Political Transformations The New Washington. Part 6 The New Political System: The Rise of Think Tanks The Politics of Ideas. Part 7 Think Tanks and Wisdom The Great Conversation
The Transformation of American Politics
Journal Article The Transformation of American Politics: The New Washington and the Rise of Think Tanks. By David M. Ricci. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. x, 310 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-30005340-1.) Get access Judith Sealander Judith Sealander Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 826–8…
Political science and conservative ideas
Leading political science journals publish few articles about the ideas that animate modern American conservatives. Perhaps this is because the subject cannot be investigated as rigorously as we would like. There are too many conservatives publishing too many books and articles for anyone to know for sure exactly which—the authors or the books—are crucial to the subject; conservative concerns sometimes vary along with electoral imperatives; peopl…
Why conservatives tell stories and liberals don't
Why do conservatives tell stories? Because it helps them win elections and assail liberal policies like health care reform and economic stimulus. Why is important, but the what and the how behind the stories that conservatives tell are equally interesting, and in this new book, David Ricci reveals all. He shows how conservative activists and candidates tell many tales that come together to project a large-scale story; a cultural narrative; a visi…
Politics Without Stories
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalizati…
Defending Democracy
To defeat demagogues like Donald Trump, citizens must vote to defend democracy, otherwise it will not be there to defend them. Taking off from Max Weber's 'Vocation Lectures,' David Ricci's Defending Democracy therefore explores the idea of 'citizenship as a vocation,' which is a commitment to defending democracy by supporting leaders who will govern according to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truths rather than animosity and pola…
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