The Politics of Interest
Philosophy and the Limitations of the Science of Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11065041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clarke E Cochran (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 745 |
| Publication date | 1973-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110606 |
| OpenAlex | W2315557806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
American political recently has been concerned with construction of general theories of political system. The intent of this paper is to analyze a basic assumption of these recent theoretical efforts. These efforts are dominated by a particular idea of which may be called the of interest. It is vision of as an arena into which individual or group interests enter in some fashion to be dealt with by certain processes and transformed into outcomes, policies, or outputs. The paper examines this idea and its premises, describes contribution which idea of a science of politics makes to maintaining its dominance and indicates limitations which it imposes on political in general and on political theory in particular. Much recent work in American political has reflected a concern with construction of general theories of political system, but it has failed to examine critically basic philosophical assumptions of these theories. The intent of this paper is to help to correct this failure by analyzing an assumption which lies at heart of recent theoretical efforts in American political science, an assumption common to most influential theoretical statements in American political in last twenty years. These theoretical statements are dominated by a particular concept of which may be called the of interest. There are undoubtedly other important assumptions present in recent attempts at formulation of theories of politics, but assumption that is conflict of interest is most important and most universal. Classical political theorists, at least political theorists in Platonic and Aristotelian tradition, conceived of political realm as having a scope as wide as society itself, and of political society as being a whole, a community
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2019 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |