[PDF] A Framework For Political Analysis eBook

Author : David Easton
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Political psychology
ISBN :

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"A framework for political analysis by David Easton develops a method for analyzing the basic processes by which political systems, regardless of generic or specific types, seek to adapt and prevail as systems of behavior in a world of either stability or change. It establishes an organized system of concepts which not only forms an introduction to a behavioral theory of politics, but offers a framework for what can be termed a systems analysis of political life. It represents the first comprehensive statement of a formal framework interpreting politics as a system of social behavior, and as such, offers much valuable material for empirical investigators and theoreticians in the social and political fields. Beginning with an identification of the assumptions from which politics are defined as a system of behavior, this work then proceeds to develop a structure of concepts. Focusing largely on the dynamic aspects of systems, the author examines the kinds of processes characteristic of political systems. He organizes a consistent structure of concepts to fit the kind of system that political life constitutes. This work offers a clear pathway to a general theory of political life, a manner of analysis for understanding the behavior of all kinds of political systems: small or large, developing or traditional, modern or primitive, industrial or agrarian, democratic or totalitarian. It provides a set of categories for research and analysis that can be effectively used by anyone concerned with the study of politics, regardless of specific field - whether public administration, political science, sociology, or anthropology - and as such, forms a contribution of inestimable value to the study of political life" -- Dust jacket.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415773040

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Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis through a comparative examination of state and social institutions.

Author : Kalevi Jaakko Holsti
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780134716640

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Combining theory with examples from recent events and trends, this text provides a framework for understanding the complexities of international politics. It covers the contexts in which states operate, what states seek to achieve, factors underlying policy choices and patterns of relationships.

Author : Peeter Selg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030487806

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This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134792514

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Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study of the subject. Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. This is achieved through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, the interactions that occur between them, and the poltical cultures within which they operate. The book also offers a concise and detailed synthesis of existing comparative frameworks that, up to now at least, have encountered analytical shortcomings on their own. Although analytically different in its arguments and emphasis from the current "Mainstream" genre of literature on comparative politics, the present study is a logical outgrowth of the scholarly works of the last decade or so. It will be essential reading for all students of comparative politics.

Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555877842

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Sets out a comprehensive framework of analysis for security studies, examining the distinctive character and dynamics of security in five sectors: military, political, economic, environmental, and societal. It rejects traditionalists' case for restricting security in one sector, arguing that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues, and offers a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR