Theodore J Lowi
Biographic Data
| ID | 300975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore J Lowi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowi |
| SIGNATURE | LOWI T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
We the People
Comparative Theory and Political Experience: Mario Einaudi and the Liberal Tradition
Through his influential writings integrating the heritage of classical political theory with the perspective of modern comparative politics, Mario Einaudi has demonstrated how the twentieth-century political scientist can advance the eighteenth-century philosopher's pursuit of institutions that ensure freedom and civic virtue.Editors Katzenstein, Lowi, and Tarrow have brought together essays illuminating the creative tension in Einaudi's work bet…
American Government: A Brief Introduction
We the People
Arenas of Power: Reflections on Politics and Policy
Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena-"social regulatory policy." As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public poli…
Moral Controversies in American Politics
Today, new media enter our lives faster than ever before. This volume provides a complete, state-of-the-art overview of the newest media technologies and how they can be used in marketing communications - essential information for any organization that wants to maintain an effective advertising program, as well as for experts and students in the fields of advertising and mass communications. Advertising, Promotion, and New Media offers crucial in…
We the People
We the People: An Introduction to American Politics
Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s Reply
Politics in Motion: A Personal History of Political Science
The American Political Science Review (APSR) centennial provided us an occasion for the examination of the political science profession as reflected from its pages. Employing a citation analysis of 220 major political scientists published in the APSR and probing deeper into the citation record of some of its prominent scholars, this paper charts the dynamics of political science history. Since its birth over a hundred years ago, the profession ha…
Where do we go from here
This is a story about competition between a primitive political science, a modern political science, and their significance to the future of political science and the state. The old-fashioned political science is comprised of storytelling, otherwise called case studies. The modern, pure political science is committed to the incorporation of the methods of pure science. The difference between the two is the origin of an on-going debate within poli…
Hyperpolitics: An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts
Public Intellectuals and the Public Interest: Toward a Politics of Political Science as a Calling
Upon my first reading of the Etzioni autobiography, I recalled my favorite book review, written by a nine-year-old, who also should have won a prize for the youngest author and the shortest review ever: “This book told me more about penguins than I wanted to know.”
Struggle for Hegemony: A Reply to Aynsley Kellow's Review of Arenas of Power
Hyperpolitics: An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts
Bend Sinister: How the Constitution Saved the Republic and Lost Itself
This is a history of illegitimacy in America. And here is my text, drawn from three Russians, who understand illegitimacy better than anyone else
Arenas of Power: Reflections on Politics and Policy
Arch T. Dotson
Arch T. Dotson, professor emeritus of government at Cornell University, died April 6, 2006, at the age of 85. He had been sound of mind and body virtually until the end, teaching until his voice was too weak to be heard. A “country boy” born and bred in Paris, Kentucky, he worked from his early teens on farms managed by his father. Arch left for World War II just short of earning his B.A. from Transylvania College and joined the Army Air Force as…
Glendon A. Schubert
People like Glendon Schubert never die. Glen was an individualist who lived by his work, and I'm one of his products. I was not a born scholar. I had no idea of what “the life of the mind” was all about. College was for me merely four more years of high school. Academic achievement was just competition by other means, and grades were nothing but a way of keeping score
Hyperpolitics: Political Science Research in the Web Environment
We have entered an age of rapid and deep transformation of our learning environment. As with many other technological revolutions, facts are coming to us before we can understand and explain them. Computers have suddenly appeared on every university desk, and have rapidly substituted the typewriter and the pen as the dominant writing technology. Within a decade, we have moved from printed language, a five-century old technology, to electronic lan…
Reforming American Electoral Politics: Let's Take “No” for an Answer
In Gilbert & Sullivan's undeservedly obscure operetta, Utopia Ltd., English invaders seek to colonize the impressionable citizens of this tropical island paradise by employing “a marvelous philologist who'll undertake to show, that ‘yes’ is but another and a neater form of ‘no.’” In our two-party form of government, citizens are colonized the same way, proving that truth can be just as goofy as fiction. We can say No to one candidate only by sayi…
Our Millennium: Political Science Confronts the Global Corporate Economy
Of all the freedoms for which the cold war was fought, free enterprise was deemed sufficient for acquisition of all the other freedoms. The task of political science should now be to expose the loose and insecure moorings of economic ideology and to develop an approach more appropriate to the realities of our time. Our new millennium is a corporate millennium that has been interpreted in the hegemonic model to mean private and free (that is, unre…
Negative Capital and the Wealth of Nations
The so-called global economy has generated tremendous international wealth inequality that only increases as globalization deepens. This process is capped by the failure of classical economic theory to incorporate such free market externalities as negative capital. Negative capital can be defined as situations, events, or environmental conditions that degrade or threaten to degrade the standard of living or life expectancy of great numbers of per…
Hyperpolitics: Hypertext, Concepts and Theory-Making
Political theory begins with respect for the complexity of its conceptual universe. Hypertext, a language for organizing knowledge on a modular rather than a sequential basis, provides an opportunity to unscramble this verbal mixture and to reconstitute it with new understandings and a new source of creative political discourse. This article reports on an experiment in computer-assisted advancement of political theory. It presents the initial res…
The Rapture of Politics: The Christian Right as the United States Approaches the Year 2000
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
Case-Studies of the policy-making process constitute one of the more important methods of political science analysis. Beginning with Schattschneider, Herring, and others in the 1930's, case-studies have been conducted on a great variety of decisions. They have varied in subject-matter and format, in scope and rigor, but they form a distinguishable body of literature which continues to grow year by year. The most recent addition, a book-length stu…
The State in Political Science: How We Became What We Study
American political science is a product of the American state. There are political reasons why particular subdisciplines became hegemonic with the emergence of the "Second Republic" after World War II. The three hegemonic subdisciplines of our time are public opinion, public policy, and public choice. Each is a case study of consonance with the thought-ways and methods of a modern bureaucratized government committed to scientific decision making.…
The personal president: Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled
Decision Making vs. Policy Making: Toward an Antidote for Technocracy
The Public Philosophy: Interest-Group Liberalism
Until astonishingly recent times American national government played a marginal role in the life of the nation. Even as late as the eve of World War I, the State Department could support itself on consular fees. In most years revenues from tariffs supplied adequate financing, plus a surplus, from all other responsibilities. In 1800, there was less than one-half a federal bureaucrat per 1,000 citizens. On the eve of the Civil War there were only 1…
The Return to the State: Critiques
This symposium features three critiques of Gabriel Almonds argument-by Eric A. Nordlinger of Brown University, Theodore J. Lowi of Cornell University, and Sergio Fabbrini of the University of Trento
Toward Functionalism in Political Science: The Case of Innovation in Party Systems
In the life of all organizations there seems to be a general tendency toward a state of affairs called "equilibrium" by the favorably disposed and "rigidity" by the disaffected. Once the internal processes of an organization have become routine and its relations to the outside world have become stabilized, a kind of inertia seems to set in. The prevailing patterns are seen as good by the members. Identification involves a good deal of resistance …
Moral Controversies in American Politics
Today, new media enter our lives faster than ever before. This volume provides a complete, state-of-the-art overview of the newest media technologies and how they can be used in marketing communications - essential information for any organization that wants to maintain an effective advertising program, as well as for experts and students in the fields of advertising and mass communications. Advertising, Promotion, and New Media offers crucial in…
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States: A Federal Analysis
Many theories have been offered to explain the absence of socialism as a significant political force in the United States. Although no theory will satisfactorily explain a "non-happening," this article offers an unusual theory: that federalism is more powerful than any other factor. The influence of the federal structure is expressed in at least two ways. The first follows Madison's original design, that the states will be numerous and so differe…
An Assessment of Kellow's “Promoting Elegance in Policy Theory
At the Pleasure of the Mayor: Patronage and Power in New York City, 1898-1958
What Political Scientists Don't Need to Ask About Policy Analysis
American Government, 1933-1963: Fission and Confusion in Theory and Research
In a revolutionary century political science as a discipline has been transformed along with its subject matter. In no more than a generation the discipline has gone through at least three theoretical ages, from a naive Jeffersonianism to a mongrelized Madisonianism to a kind of liberal Burkeanism. It has been going through still another transformation in methodology. The failure of one democratic institution after another has bred uncertainty, a…
Politics in Motion: A Personal History of Political Science
The American Political Science Review (APSR) centennial provided us an occasion for the examination of the political science profession as reflected from its pages. Employing a citation analysis of 220 major political scientists published in the APSR and probing deeper into the citation record of some of its prominent scholars, this paper charts the dynamics of political science history. Since its birth over a hundred years ago, the profession ha…
Our Millennium: Political Science Confronts the Global Corporate Economy
Of all the freedoms for which the cold war was fought, free enterprise was deemed sufficient for acquisition of all the other freedoms. The task of political science should now be to expose the loose and insecure moorings of economic ideology and to develop an approach more appropriate to the realities of our time. Our new millennium is a corporate millennium that has been interpreted in the hegemonic model to mean private and free (that is, unre…
Hyperpolitics: Hypertext, Concepts and Theory-Making
Political theory begins with respect for the complexity of its conceptual universe. Hypertext, a language for organizing knowledge on a modular rather than a sequential basis, provides an opportunity to unscramble this verbal mixture and to reconstitute it with new understandings and a new source of creative political discourse. This article reports on an experiment in computer-assisted advancement of political theory. It presents the initial res…
Lowi Responds
The End of Liberalism - The Second Republik of the United States
The main argument which Lowi develops through this book is that the liberal state grew to its immense size and presence without self-examination and without recognizing that its pattern of growth had problematic consequences. Its engine of growth was delegation. The government expanded by responding to the demands of all major organized interests, by assuming responsibility for programs sought by those interests, and by assigning that responsibil…
Lowi and Simon on Political Science, Public Administration, Rationality and Public Choice
Journal Article Lowi and Simon on Political Science, Public Administration, Rationality and Public Choice Get access Theodore J. Lowi Theodore J. Lowi Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 105–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037115 Published: 01 April 1992
The Welfare State: Ethical Foundations and Constitutional Remedies
Journal Article The Welfare State: Ethical Foundations and Constitutional Remedies Get access Theodore J. Lowi Theodore J. Lowi THEODORE J. LOWI is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University. An author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of American politics, his most recent book is The Personal President: Power Invested, Promise Unfilled. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Policy Studies Perspective
Interest Groups and the Consent to Govern: Getting the People Out, for What
The original Western liberal approach to govern ment was that as long as there were multitudes of interests with no possibility of any interest becoming a permanent majority, the free interaction of these interests would provide a public good. Very probably, the most important feature of this early liberal approach to government by the consent of organized interests was the coupling of consent with regulation. In the process of aging and spreadin…
Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s Reply
Reforming American Electoral Politics: Let's Take “No” for an Answer
In Gilbert & Sullivan's undeservedly obscure operetta, Utopia Ltd., English invaders seek to colonize the impressionable citizens of this tropical island paradise by employing “a marvelous philologist who'll undertake to show, that ‘yes’ is but another and a neater form of ‘no.’” In our two-party form of government, citizens are colonized the same way, proving that truth can be just as goofy as fiction. We can say No to one candidate only by sayi…
Negative Capital and the Wealth of Nations
The so-called global economy has generated tremendous international wealth inequality that only increases as globalization deepens. This process is capped by the failure of classical economic theory to incorporate such free market externalities as negative capital. Negative capital can be defined as situations, events, or environmental conditions that degrade or threaten to degrade the standard of living or life expectancy of great numbers of per…
Toward Functionalism in Political Science: The Case of Innovation in Party Systems
In the life of all organizations there seems to be a general tendency toward a state of affairs called "equilibrium" by the favorably disposed and "rigidity" by the disaffected. Once the internal processes of an organization have become routine and its relations to the outside world have become stabilized, a kind of inertia seems to set in. The prevailing patterns are seen as good by the members. Identification involves a good deal of resistance …
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
Case-Studies of the policy-making process constitute one of the more important methods of political science analysis. Beginning with Schattschneider, Herring, and others in the 1930's, case-studies have been conducted on a great variety of decisions. They have varied in subject-matter and format, in scope and rigor, but they form a distinguishable body of literature which continues to grow year by year. The most recent addition, a book-length stu…
American Government, 1933-1963: Fission and Confusion in Theory and Research
In a revolutionary century political science as a discipline has been transformed along with its subject matter. In no more than a generation the discipline has gone through at least three theoretical ages, from a naive Jeffersonianism to a mongrelized Madisonianism to a kind of liberal Burkeanism. It has been going through still another transformation in methodology. The failure of one democratic institution after another has bred uncertainty, a…
At the Pleasure of the Mayor: Patronage and Power in New York City, 1898-1958
At the Pleasure of the Mayor: Patronage and Power in New York City, 1898-1958
The Public Philosophy: Interest-Group Liberalism
Until astonishingly recent times American national government played a marginal role in the life of the nation. Even as late as the eve of World War I, the State Department could support itself on consular fees. In most years revenues from tariffs supplied adequate financing, plus a surplus, from all other responsibilities. In 1800, there was less than one-half a federal bureaucrat per 1,000 citizens. On the eve of the Civil War there were only 1…
Who Should Govern
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Machines politiques ou bureaucraties administratives ? Le problème du gouvernement des villes américaines
Les grandes villes américaines sont passées en un quart de siècle d'un mode de gouvernement par des «machines politiques » à un système administratif de type bureaucratique. Prenant l'exemple de Chicago, seule ville à avoir conservé un gouvernement de type ancien , et de New York, une des premières dont le gouvernement se soit au contraire modernisé, c'est-à-dire bureaucratisé, l'auteur s'interroge sur les raisons et les limites de chaque mode de…
The Patient Needs All the Blood He Has
Life is paradoxical. The more responsive the public has been in providing and expanding educational opportunities the more the universities seem to be threatened by hostile forces and instability. The faster the educator and the education-oriented politician run after their constituencies, the more their constituencies seem to feel alienated. So clear has been this relationship between the expansion and the instability that one is tempted to say …
Apartheid U.S.A: Federally assisted urban redevelopment: A blue print for segregation
Decision Making vs. Policy Making: Toward an Antidote for Technocracy
The Politics of Disorder.
Periods of disorder in the United States have generally been regarded as evil times which must be terminated as quickly as possible. But in this provocative analysis of our political system, pursuing the argument of his noted study The End of Liberalism, Theodore J. Lowi maintains that political disorder affords new opportunities for effective political action-or that it can, in system of juridical democracy. Professor Lowi presents a convincing …
The Disorder of Politics: Lowi Takes the High Road
Making Political Institutions Responsive to Societal Needs
Which End of Liberalism
Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice
Toda política pública en los regímenes democráticos viene establecida por la ley, en virtud del modelo social y de las claves competenciales de los órganos político-administrativos.La política de protección del menor en el ámbito autonómico valenciano deriva del sistema compartido de competencia de un Estado compuesto, en el que fijadas las competencias, las políticas y programas se realizan conforme a la
What Political Scientists Don't Need to Ask About Policy Analysis
Interest Groups and the Consent to Govern: Getting the People Out, for What
The original Western liberal approach to govern ment was that as long as there were multitudes of interests with no possibility of any interest becoming a permanent majority, the free interaction of these interests would provide a public good. Very probably, the most important feature of this early liberal approach to government by the consent of organized interests was the coupling of consent with regulation. In the process of aging and spreadin…
The end of liberalism: The second republic of the United States
The Policy Studies Perspective
The End of Liberalism - The Second Republik of the United States
The main argument which Lowi develops through this book is that the liberal state grew to its immense size and presence without self-examination and without recognizing that its pattern of growth had problematic consequences. Its engine of growth was delegation. The government expanded by responding to the demands of all major organized interests, by assuming responsibility for programs sought by those interests, and by assigning that responsibil…
Toward a More Responsible Three-Party System: The Mythology of the Two-Party System and the Prospects for Reform
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Warning: America-Watching Can be Hazardous to your Health
Alexis de Tocqueville remains the most important member of an old international tradition, America-watching. It’s a tradition America seems to enjoy being the goat of. People of other countries don’t necessarily enjoy being watched. The Japanese made a best-seller out of Ezra Vogel’s Japan as Number One, but that’s an exception for obvious reasons
Commentaries
Unlike other analysts of the American scene — past and present, foreign and domestic — M. Crozier is reasonable, amiable, often generous. The problems of this chapter — and I will assume it to be representative of the approach taken throughout the book — stem not from malice, but from an analytical framework far too diffuse, hence inadequate
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States: A Federal Analysis
Many theories have been offered to explain the absence of socialism as a significant political force in the United States. Although no theory will satisfactorily explain a "non-happening," this article offers an unusual theory: that federalism is more powerful than any other factor. The influence of the federal structure is expressed in at least two ways. The first follows Madison's original design, that the states will be numerous and so differe…
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