Samuel H Beer
Biographic Data
| ID | 334823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel H Beer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Beer |
| SIGNATURE | BEER S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Encounters With Modernity
This article provides a personal commentary on the role of institutions in political science. It emphasizes the role of institutions and gives an account of this chapter's author's projects in the comparative study of the politics of the USA and Britain. It studies liberal democracy and liberal nationalism in detail.
Responses to Rubin and Feeley
Journal Article Responses to Rubin and Feeley Get access Samuel H. Beer Samuel H. Beer **Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 38, Issue 2, Spring 2008, Pages 192–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjn005 Published: 11 February 2008
From the Halls of Congress
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Strong Government and Democratic Control
Welfare Reform
This article introduces the two main themes of this special issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, workfare and federalism. At this early stage in the history of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, these themes must be stated as questions rather than answers, as hypotheses not conclusions. What does the new welfare policy seek to accomplish? What are the effects—intended and unintended—of its limited devolution of power to the states
Britain after Blair
To Make a Nation
To Make a Nation
To Make a Nation
To Make a Nation
Journal Article To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism. By Samuel H. Beer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xxii, 474 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-89317-4.) Get access Michael P. Zuckert Michael P. Zuckert Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1292–1293, https://doi.org/10.2307/208…
Reform of the British Constitution
Karl Deutsch
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Louis Hartz
The Rule of the Wise and the Holy
N 1776, American rebels chose not only independence, but also republicanism. In making that choice, they turned their backs on one of main lessons of Western political tradition. For more than 2,000 years nearly all leading minds had rejected popular government. Classical philosophy had taught rule of wise, Christian theology rule of holy. Medieval thinkers had combined two ideas, vesting authority in a hierarchy of natural virtue and a hierarchy…
III. Liberty and Union
HE FOUNDERS of the American Republic sought to establish a regime of republican liberty, that is, a government that would protect the individual rights of person and property and that would be founded oil the consent of the governed. Such a regime suffered from a central weakness. History and theory warned that republican liberty could destroy itself by reason of the very diversity that liberty must breed. The task of government was to concert th…
Ronald reagan
Britain against Itself
Federalism, Nationalism, and Democracy in America
The growth of the public sector in recent years has been accompanied by both centralization and decentralization. More important than any such shifts of power or function between levels of government, however, has been the emergence of new arenas of mutual influence among levels of government. In this way recent developments in intergovernmental relations are adding a new dimension to the national system of representation. That the federal divisi…
Political Overload & Federalism
The tendency of government expenditure to claim an increasing share of national product is the subject of much scholarly debate. In the present article Professor Beer directs attention to forces within government itself that promote this tendency. The contemporary welfare state, he argues, generates both a new centralism and a new localism which, although in tension with one another, work together to increase spending, yet also prevent this growi…
Two Models of Public Opinion
It is appropriate that an American should address himself to the subject of public opinion. For, in terms of quantity, Americans have made the subject peculiarly their own. They have also invested it with characteristically American concerns. Most of the work done on the subject in the United States is oriented by a certain theoretical approach. This approach is democratic and rationalist. Both aspects create problems. In this paper I wish to pla…
The Webbs confront the twentieth century
Tradition and Nationality
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Two Models of Public Opinion
IT is appropriate that an American should address himself to the subject of public opinion. For, in terms of quantity, Americans have made the subject peculiarly their own.1 They have also invested it with characteristically American concerns. Most of the work done on the subject in the United States is oriented by a certain theoretical approach. This approach is democratic and rationalist. Both aspects create problems. In this paper I wish to pl…
The Modernization of American Federalism
Journal Article THE MODERNIZATION OF AMERICAN FEDERALISM Get access Samuel H. Beer Samuel H. Beer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1973, Pages 49–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038281 Published: 01 January 1973
The Disorders of Modernity
Federalism, Nationalism, and Democracy in America
The growth of the public sector in recent years has been accompanied by both centralization and decentralization. More important than any such shifts of power or function between levels of government, however, has been the emergence of new arenas of mutual influence among levels of government. In this way recent developments in intergovernmental relations are adding a new dimension to the national system of representation. That the federal divisi…
The Modernization of American Federalism
Journal Article THE MODERNIZATION OF AMERICAN FEDERALISM Get access Samuel H. Beer Samuel H. Beer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1973, Pages 49–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038281 Published: 01 January 1973
Pressure Groups and Parties in Britain
When an American looks at British politics, one of his first questions is likely to be, "Where are your pressure groups?" Since the subject has hardly been studied and most works on British government largely ignore it, he may feel some surprise when he finds that, even if compared with American examples, pressure groups in Britain are numerous, massive, well-organized, and highly effective. In this article I wish in the first place simply to ske…
Modern Political Parties
Political Overload & Federalism
The tendency of government expenditure to claim an increasing share of national product is the subject of much scholarly debate. In the present article Professor Beer directs attention to forces within government itself that promote this tendency. The contemporary welfare state, he argues, generates both a new centralism and a new localism which, although in tension with one another, work together to increase spending, yet also prevent this growi…
The Representation of Interests in British Government
Out-of-date ideas-if they can only manage to survive long enough-are often put to new and surprising uses. A case in point is British Toryism. This pre-capitalist, pre-individualist, pre-liberal creed, one might think, ought surely to have died out during the 19th century. Yet not only has it survived into the era of socialism, it can also claim credit for having helped build the Welfare State. And today British socialists and Tories-both collect…
Britain against Itself
Causal Explanation and Imaginative Re-Enactment
Advocates of the use of method in social and historical studies often do their cause more harm than good. Perhaps the main root of the trouble is the very term scientific a phrase which may seem to promise a new branch of knowledge on the lines of physics, chemistry or biology. But even if we could get rid of these words and banish all envious thoughts of the natural sciences, the student of society who reflects on what he is doing would sooner o…
Group Representation in Britain and the United States
Certain changes in the modern economy stand in marked contrast with the individualist, laissez-faire model. This new "collectivism" can be summarized under four head ings. The tendency to concentrate economic power among a few big buyers or sellers in a particular industry or complex of industries; the changes in internal structure resulting from this increase in the size of units which we term bureaucracy and managerialism; the method of dealing…
The Comparative Method and the Study of British Politics
My title suggests paradox. How can you make comparisons when you are dealing with only one system? The question has poini and I am going to hinge these brief introductory remarks on methodology on a distinction between what I shall call method of comparison and method of hypothesis. When we first began discussing these questions of comparative politics quite some years ago, we talked a good deal about what we called the logic of In trying to imag…
Welfare Reform
This article introduces the two main themes of this special issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, workfare and federalism. At this early stage in the history of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, these themes must be stated as questions rather than answers, as hypotheses not conclusions. What does the new welfare policy seek to accomplish? What are the effects—intended and unintended—of its limited devolution of power to the states
Britain after Blair
III. Liberty and Union
HE FOUNDERS of the American Republic sought to establish a regime of republican liberty, that is, a government that would protect the individual rights of person and property and that would be founded oil the consent of the governed. Such a regime suffered from a central weakness. History and theory warned that republican liberty could destroy itself by reason of the very diversity that liberty must breed. The task of government was to concert th…
To Make a Nation
The Rule of the Wise and the Holy
N 1776, American rebels chose not only independence, but also republicanism. In making that choice, they turned their backs on one of main lessons of Western political tradition. For more than 2,000 years nearly all leading minds had rejected popular government. Classical philosophy had taught rule of wise, Christian theology rule of holy. Medieval thinkers had combined two ideas, vesting authority in a hierarchy of natural virtue and a hierarchy…
Responses to Rubin and Feeley
Journal Article Responses to Rubin and Feeley Get access Samuel H. Beer Samuel H. Beer **Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 38, Issue 2, Spring 2008, Pages 192–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjn005 Published: 11 February 2008
British Pressure Groups
The Conservative Party of Great Britain
Reform of the British Constitution
Tradition and Nationality
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Two Models of Public Opinion
IT is appropriate that an American should address himself to the subject of public opinion. For, in terms of quantity, Americans have made the subject peculiarly their own.1 They have also invested it with characteristically American concerns. Most of the work done on the subject in the United States is oriented by a certain theoretical approach. This approach is democratic and rationalist. Both aspects create problems. In this paper I wish to pl…
Les Partis Politiques
rT 1HIS SHORT, critical essay is based on the review of a bold and intelligent book, a major product of the new direction taken by French political science since the war, which deserves to be widely read among American students of politics. In Les Partis Politiques, Professor Duverger turns sharply away from the traditional French emphasis on formal public which he holds to be far less important to an understanding of contemporary government than…
The City of Reason
The City of Reason
The Conservative Party of Great Britain
Appraisals of New Fabian Essays
Les Partis Politiques
rT 1HIS SHORT, critical essay is based on the review of a bold and intelligent book, a major product of the new direction taken by French political science since the war, which deserves to be widely read among American students of politics. In Les Partis Politiques, Professor Duverger turns sharply away from the traditional French emphasis on formal public which he holds to be far less important to an understanding of contemporary government than…
A History of France
The Future of British Politics
Treasury Control
Any account of British government will lay stress on the power and importance of the Treasury. But although the parliamentary side of British finance has been fully described in various works, very little has been written about what goes on in this field within the administration and in particular about the operations of the Treasury. What precisely does the Treasury do and how does it do it? The typical business of the Treasury is the control of…
Modern Political Parties
Pressure Groups and Parties in Britain
When an American looks at British politics, one of his first questions is likely to be, "Where are your pressure groups?" Since the subject has hardly been studied and most works on British government largely ignore it, he may feel some surprise when he finds that, even if compared with American examples, pressure groups in Britain are numerous, massive, well-organized, and highly effective. In this article I wish in the first place simply to ske…
Party Government in Britain Today
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The Representation of Interests in British Government
Out-of-date ideas-if they can only manage to survive long enough-are often put to new and surprising uses. A case in point is British Toryism. This pre-capitalist, pre-individualist, pre-liberal creed, one might think, ought surely to have died out during the 19th century. Yet not only has it survived into the era of socialism, it can also claim credit for having helped build the Welfare State. And today British socialists and Tories-both collect…
Treasury Control
British Pressure Groups
Group Representation in Britain and the United States
Certain changes in the modern economy stand in marked contrast with the individualist, laissez-faire model. This new "collectivism" can be summarized under four head ings. The tendency to concentrate economic power among a few big buyers or sellers in a particular industry or complex of industries; the changes in internal structure resulting from this increase in the size of units which we term bureaucracy and managerialism; the method of dealing…
Small-Town Politics
Democratic One‐party Government for Britain
Causal Explanation and Imaginative Re-Enactment
Advocates of the use of method in social and historical studies often do their cause more harm than good. Perhaps the main root of the trouble is the very term scientific a phrase which may seem to promise a new branch of knowledge on the lines of physics, chemistry or biology. But even if we could get rid of these words and banish all envious thoughts of the natural sciences, the student of society who reflects on what he is doing would sooner o…
Political Sociology
The Comparative Method and the Study of British Politics
My title suggests paradox. How can you make comparisons when you are dealing with only one system? The question has poini and I am going to hinge these brief introductory remarks on methodology on a distinction between what I shall call method of comparison and method of hypothesis. When we first began discussing these questions of comparative politics quite some years ago, we talked a good deal about what we called the logic of In trying to imag…
The Disorders of Modernity
Tradition and Modernity in Comparative Politics
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The Modernization of American Federalism
Journal Article THE MODERNIZATION OF AMERICAN FEDERALISM Get access Samuel H. Beer Samuel H. Beer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1973, Pages 49–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038281 Published: 01 January 1973
Two Models of Public Opinion
It is appropriate that an American should address himself to the subject of public opinion. For, in terms of quantity, Americans have made the subject peculiarly their own. They have also invested it with characteristically American concerns. Most of the work done on the subject in the United States is oriented by a certain theoretical approach. This approach is democratic and rationalist. Both aspects create problems. In this paper I wish to pla…
The Webbs confront the twentieth century
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