Why Political Systems Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6265883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David E Apter (corresponding author), David Apter |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411-427 |
| Publication date | 1968-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1968.tb01340.x |
| OpenAlex | W2104569809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
I INTEND TO FOLLOW AN ABSTRACT LINE IN ANSWERING THE question why political systems change. That is, I am not concerned with the infinity of descriptive reasons why change occurs in any concrete case. It may be argued that now is not the time to bother with such a trivial approach, particularly when the language of crisis is what must be used, and also understood, and not the language of abstraction.I think the answer to this is that for too long the evaluation of politics, and of government in particular, has become a ‘pseudoactivity’ in which descriptive categories like ‘parliamentary control over the executive’, or ‘reform of the committee system’ are comforting shibboleths which, although meant to contain some inner profundity have lost much of their original meaning. The truth is that the balance between normative givens and structural conditions is becoming so altered that the common-sense foundations of the discipline seem almost irrelevant
Abstraction · Balance (ability · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Political system · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Science Research and Education · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2016 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |