Name Index
Adorno, Theodor, 221
Allen, Robert, 229
Almond, Gabriel, 28, 115, 228
Ammerman, Nancy, 228
Anderson, Perry, 212
Anderson, Sarah, 236
Arendt, Hannah, 217
Aristotle, 181
Aron, Raymond, 216
Arrow, Kenneth, 235, 238
Augello, Massimo, 229
Bachrach, Peter, 201, 227
Bakker, Wieger, 66,
Banning, Willem, 66
Baratz, Morton, 227
Barone, Enrico, 142
Bartók, Bella, 62
Baudelaire, Charles, 25
Bauer, Otto, 117
Baxter, Richard, 34
Bay, Christian, 201
Beck, Ulrich, 224
Bellah, Robert, 207
Bendix, Reinhard, 213
Bentham, Jeremy, 201
Benton, Ted, 227
Berelson, Bernard, 115
Berger, Peter, 223
Berki, Robert, 212
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 5, 113, 214, 238
Bernstein, Eduard, 123, 152
Bismarck, Otto von, 18, 52, 233
Bettelheim, Bruno, 215
Blair, Tony, 14
Bloch, Ernst, 20
Blokland, Talja, 5
Bode, Karl, 230
Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von, 117
Bon, Gustave le, 159, 235
Bottomore, Tom, 201, 235
Bradley, Bill, 218-19
Brecht, Arnold, 27-8, 214-15
Brus,
Burke, Edmund, 165
Burnham, James, 178, 222
Bush, George H.W., 173
Calvin, John, 36
Chaplin, Charlie, 217
Coe, Richard, 115, 238
Cole, G.H.D., 201
Comte, Auguste, 29
Connolly, William, 223-24
Coser, Lewis, 18-20, 22, 62-63, 73, 213, 221
Court, Pieter de la, 36
Crenson, Matthew, 227
Cuperus, René, 212
Dahl, Robert, vi, xii-xv, 7, 9-11, 14-16, 66, 111, 115, 181, 202, 222, 225, 227-28, 231, 237, 239
Dahrendorf, Ralf, 207
Dao, James, 219
Daudt, Hans, 115
Davis, Lane, 201
Dewey, Donald, 237
Dewey, John, 64, 94
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 22, 63, 65
Doorn, Jacques van, 2-3, 26, 65, 222
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 62
Downs, Anthony, 115, 239
Dryzek, John, 212
Duffek, Karl, 212
Duncan, Graeme, 201
Durkheim, Emile, 29, 83, 184
Eckstein, Harry, 115, 228
Eichman, Adolf, 217
El, Carla van, 65
Elias, Norbert, 225
Eliot, T.S., 221
Engels, Friedrich, 57, 195
Engelsdorp-Gastelaars, Phillippus van, 221
Etzioni, Amitai, 207
Farr, James, 212
Feyerabend, Paul, 170
Firuski, Elisabeth, 120
Fischer, Joschka, 218
Franklin, Benjamin, 36-37, 216
Freud, Sigmund, 64
Fromm, Erich, 5, 215, 222
Fukuyama, Francis, 12, 193
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 230-31
Gallie, Walter, 239
Gans, Herbert, 213
Gastelaars, Marja, 65
Geertz, Clifford, 228
Gellner, Ernest, 228
Geras, Norman, 215
Gerth, Hans, 20, 217
Giddens, Anthony, 14, 66, 207, 212, 224
Goethe, J. Wolfgang von, 38
Goodin, Robert E., 213
Gore, Albert, 219
Gorz, André, 233
Gray, John, 215
Haberler, Gottfried, 114
Habermas, Jürgen, 207
Hacker-Cordón, Casiano, 115, 154
Hauser, Arnold, 62
Hayek, Friedrich von, 144, 232, 238
Hegel, George W.F., 63, 112
Heilbroner, Robert, 114, 116, 121, 170, 172-73, 229
Held, David, 17, 114-15, 181, 198, 235, 239
Herring, Pendleton, 234
Herzen, Alexandre, 223
Hindriks, Rik, 218
Hitler, Adolf, 118
Horkheimer, Max, 221
Houten, Douwinus J. van, 66
Howe, W. Stuart, 172
Hughes, John A., 216
Huntington, Samuel, 115
Husserl, Edmund, 64-5
Jaspers, Karl, 20
Jefferson, Thomas, 162
Jonker, Eduard, 65
Kadt, Jacques de, 222
Kalma, Paul, 13, 65
Kandel, Johannes, 212
Kant, Immanuel, 22
Kavanagh, John, 236
Kelso, William, 198
Kent, Frank, 236
Keynes, John Maynard, 114, 116, 119-20, 229, 239
Kierkegaard, Søren, 62
Kimlicka, Will, 223
Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, 213
Kodály, Zoltán, 62
Kohl, Helmut, 212
Kolakowski, Leszek, 221, 238
Kristof, Nicholas, 219
Kuhn, Thomas, 223
Kun, Béla, 229
Laeyendecker, Leo, 66, 207
Lakatos, Imre, 170
Lane, Robert, 5, 11, 217, 227, 229, 231
Lange, Oskar, 142, 232
Laski, Harold, 4, 222
Lasswell, Harold, 4, 234
Lazarsfeld, Paul, 115
Lederer, Emil, 230
Leeuw, Gerard van der, 66
Lehmann, Hartmut, 216
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 175, 234
Leonard, Stephen, 212
Lerner, Abba, 142, 232
Levy, A.B., 222
Lincoln, Abraham, 162
Lindblom, Charles, xii-xv, 7, 9-11, 14-16, 22, 66, 75, 111, 114-15, 174, 179, 181, 212, 225, 228-29, 233
Lindsay, Lord of Birker, 221
Lippmann, Walter, 234-36
Lipset, Seymour M., 115
Lipsky, Michael, 227
Lively, Jack, 181, 235
Locke, John, 157
Lowell, Lawrence, 236
Löwe, Adolf, 230
Lowi, Theodore, 10
Lubbers, Ruud, 212
Luckmann, Thomas, 223
Ludendorff, Erich, 218
Luhmann, Niklas, 207
Lukács, Georg, 20, 62, 221, 223
Lukes, Steven, 201, 227
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 207
MacPherson, Crawford Brough, 235
MacRae, Donald, 20, 213
Man, Hendrik de, 222
Mandelbaum, K., 222
Mann, Thomas, vi
Mao Tse-Tung, 17
Marcuse, Herbert, 109, 221
Marshall, Alfred, 127
Marx, Karl, 3, 17, 20, 22, 29, 57, 63, 67-68, 116, 123-25, 128, 134, 141, 145, 150, 152-53, 177, 184, 195, 213, 216, 223, 230, 232, 238
März, Eduard, 116
McPhee, William, 115
Mead, George Herbert, 64
Merriam, Charles, 234
Merton, Robert, 73
Michels, Roberto, 20, 46, 49, 218, 222
Mill, John, 201
Mill, John Stuart, 17, 181, 201
Mills, C. Wright, 20, 217
Mises, Ludwig von, 142, 232
Mommsen, Wolfgang, 19-21, 49-50, 57-58, 213, 217-20
Moon, Donald, 214
Mumford, Lewis, 5
Needham, Joseph, 215
Neurath, Otto, 221
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 20-21, 25
Nisbet, Robert, 28
Nove, Alec, 232
Oakeshott, Michael, 221
Offe, Claus, 224
Oldham, Joseph, 221
Parekh, Bhikhu, 212
Parry, Geraint, 115
Pateman, Carole, 114-15, 201, 229
Patterson, Orlando, 224
Pharr, Susan, 12
Polanyi, Michael, 62
Polsby, Nelson, 115, 227
Poole, Herbert, 221
Prezeworski, Adam, 238
Putnam, Robert, 12, 228
Reagan, Ronald, 173
Reich, Charles, 66
Reisinger, Anna, 119
Renner, Karl, 117
Ricci, David, 212
Rickert, Heinrich, 20, 22, 64-65
Robbins, Lionel, 144
Robinson, Joan, 232
Roemer, John, 238
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 118
Rorty, Richard, 170
Roth, Günther, 216, 234
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 201
Samuels, Warren, 179
Sandel, Michael, 225
Sartori, Giovanni, 115
Schaar, John, 215
Scheler, Max, 62, 65, 79
Scherer, Frederic M., 172-73
Schiller, Friedrich, 24
Schumacher, Ernst F., 222
Shapiro, Ian, 115, 154
Shaw, George Bernard, 221
Shionoya, Yuigi, 116, 119-20, 229
Simmel, Georg, 5, 20, 62
Smith, Adam, 127, 237
Sombart, Werner, 20
Stalin, Joseph, 118
Stanislaw, Joseph, 211, 237
Stolper, Wolfgang, 116, 118-20, 122, 125, 230, 232
Strauss, Leo, 27, 195
Sturmthal, Adolf, 237
Swedberg, Richard, 114, 116, 118-19, 179, 230
Tawney, Richard H., 104
Taylor, Charles, 2, 6, 66, 215, 223, 225-26
Thatcher, Margaret, 212
Thoenes, Piet, 63, 222
Tilly, Charles, 183-84
Tinbergen, Jan, 120, 229
Tobin, James, 239
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 221
Tolstoy, Lev, 24
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 5, 29, 184
Troeltsch, Ernst, 20, 63, 213
Trotsky, Leon, 148
Truman, David, 115
Turner, Brian, 20
Uyl, Joop den, 65
Valk, Koos de, 22, 25, 28, 213, 215
Veenhoven, Ruut, 231
Verba, Sidney, 115, 228
Vidal, John, 239
Wallas, Graham, 234, 236
Weber, Alfred, 62, 71
Weber, Marianne, 213, 218
Wesley, John, 35-36
Wicksell, Knut, 127
Wieser, Eugon von, 117
Wilber, Charles, 115, 238
Williams, Gertrude, 222
Williams, Raymond, 201
Windelband, Wilhelm, 20, 22, 64
Wirth, Louis, 5, 67
Wolin, Sheldon S., 201
Woldring, Henk, 65, 221-22
Yergin, Daniel, 211, 237
Zinn, Howard, 234
Subject Index
Aristocracy, 58, 117, 134-35, 149, 220, 231, 237
Ascetic Protestantism, 34-37, 188, 216
Authenticity: and instrumental rationality, 215
Behaviorism, 87
Behavioralism, 27, 67
Bourgeoisie, 67, 133, 135-36, 138, 140-41, 147, 149-52, 231, 237
Bureaucracy: defined, 38-40; its bad reputation, 147, 230; its endless persistence, 44-45; its indispensability, 46, 95, 147-48, 168, 192; product and catalyst of functional rationality, 17, 41-44, 56-57, 186, 189-91; threat to humanity, 43-44, 57-58, 94-95, 111, 190-93
Bureaucratization, 3, 6, 17, 38, 50, 52-55, 58-60, 94, 153, 189-94, 199, 206, 218, 222; its driving forces, 40-45, 85, 191-92. See also Business, bureaucratization of; Political Party, bureaucratization of
Business: bureaucratization of, 38, 42-43, 135, 139, 150-51, 171, 190, 194, see also Socialization of private business; privileged position of, 10, 233
Capitalism: catalyst of bureaucratization, 42-43; catalyst and product of functional rationality, 2-3, 32-38, 42-43, 57, 78, 131-34, 187-88; defined, 32-33; its civilization and ethos, 32-33, 36-37, 57, 124, 127, 131-34, 138, 141, 176, 217, 232
Charismatic leadership, 21, 46, 52-54, 59, 109-10, 113, 180, 194, 197, 199, 205-06, 217, 219, 239. See also Democracy, and demagoguery; Masses, their manipulability
Children, 105, 130, 140, 228, 231-32
Citizenship, 102, 110, 181, 200-01, 207, 228
Classical economics, 115, 124, 127-29, 160, 171
Common good, 6, 10-12, 14, 45, 95, 108, 149, 158-59, 195, 200, 239
Conservatism, 124-25, 212
Control, types of, 53
Corporate capitalism, 179
Corporatism, 45, 58, 237
Creative destruction, 122, 128-29, 146, 190, 239
Democracy: and bureaucratization, 43; and demagoguery, 49, 54, 56, 197, 199; and negative freedom, 102, 113, 165; and responsiveness, 48-49, 56-57, 59, 115, 165, 180, 197-98; and substantive normative debates, 106, 110, 168, 187, 203; as a method to elect leaders, 48-49, 59, 115, 164-65, 180, 197-98, 218; as an elected dictatorship, 54, 56, 198; classical theory of, 157-58, 181-82, 200-02; effects of scale on, 46, 48, 97-98, 103, 108, 112, 156, 159-161, 163, 197-202; influence of Schumpeter on post war theory of, 114-15, 154; militant, 106-08, 203; minimalist conception of, 238; social conditions of, 106-107, 167-69, 202-03
Democratization, 15, 43, 79, 84, 192, 207
Differentiation, 2, 13, 15, 79-81, 92-93, 101, 184, 200, 207-08; defined, 4; political consequences of, 6-7, see also Pluralism
Dilettants and experts, 23, 40-41, 48, 76, 107, 231
Disenchantment (Entzauberung), 21, 24-25, 56, 59, 185, 188, 195
Elites, 76-78. See also Intelligentsia, Political leadership
Emancipation dilemma, 203-05, 206-07
End of politics or history, xii, 12, 73-74, 86, 100, 112, 193-96, 205, 238
Free market (free enterprise), 15, 31, 175; and anarchy, 60, 96, 98, 188, 190; and community values, 91, 221; as guarantor of freedom, innovation and dynamism, 58, 190; as system of coercion, 2-3, 37, 58, 188-89, see also Capitalism, catalyst and product of functional rationality; capitalists’ dislike of the, 129, 192. See also Laissez faire, Classical economics
Freedom: negative, 5, 13, 59, 98, 113, 204; positive, 13, 38, 101-02, 113, 178-79, 208; positive political, xi-xii, 1-2, 4-7, 10-11, 15, 46, 52, 58-59, 101-02, 109, 112-13, 170, 176-81, 196, 205-09, see also Politics, big vs small, Political powerlessness or malaise. See also Emancipation dilemma
Führerdemokratie, 54, 199
General interest. See Common good
Gesinnungsethik vs. Verantwortungsethik, 28, 54-55, 60, 108, 195, 220
Historical determinism, 57, 63, 123-25, 174-78, 180, 228, 238. See also Historical Materialism, Positive political freedom
Historical materialism, 19, 57, 63, 123, 175, 177-78, 213, 216, 237
Historicism, 22-23, 63, 67, 120
Horsemanship: Schumpeter’s achievements in, 116, 119, 166
Ideology: and knowledge, 67-70, 121, 170-74, 196, 208-09, 223. See also Utopia
Incrementalism, 7-12
Individualization, xi, 2, 12-15, 200, 207-08, 224; defined, 4-5; political consequences of, 6
Industrialization, 3, 79, 81, 84, 92, 109-10, 187, 189, 224-25
Innovation: economic, 122, 128, 130, 135, 144, 146, 150, 171-74, 192, 230-31, 239, see also Creative destruction; social, 3, 50, 58, 91, 111, 113, 189-91, 193, 205, 217, 219
Intellectuals and intelligentsia: Mannheim on, 71-73, 76-78; Weber on, 220; Schumpeter on, 137-40, 149, 229, 234
Interdependence, 76, 79-80, 83, 86, 109, 191, 200, 207, 226
Interest groups, 8-11, 15, 40, 45, 50, 69, 83, 92-93, 122, 158-59, 201, 212. See also Pluralism, political theory of, social
Iron Law of Oligarchy, 46-47, 50, 218
Laissez faire, 78, 93, 106, 176, 207, 226. See also Classical economics
Liberalism, xii, 4, 7, 10, 12-17, 49, 57, 91, 95, 98, 106, 187, 202-03, 208, 212, 225, 234. See also Neo-liberalism
Masses, the: their irrationality, 49-50, 79, 99, 110, 136, 159-61, 177-78, 199, 236, 238; their manipulability, 49, 56, 90, 96, 98, 160, 162, 179-80, 197, 199, 235; their political (in)competence, 49, 56, 59, 136, 161, 178, 197-200, 208, 239. See also Democracy, and demagoguery, effects of scale on; Charismatic leadership; Public opinion
Modernization, defined, 2-7. See also Rationalization, Differentiation, Individualization
Monopolistic and oligopolistic practices, 128-29, 146, 171-74, 190, 194, 230-31. See also Innovation, economic
Morality: functional vs substantial, 82, 187, 203, 225, 228; historical development of, 83-84
Moral confusion, 25, 57, 102-04, 203, 231
Neo-Kantian idealist tradition, 20-22, 64, 71, 75, 214
Neo-liberalism (market liberalism), xii, 13, 15, 173, 212, 220, 232
Neutrality principle, 8, 82, 106, 187, 202-03; defined, 225
Orientations of social action, 29-32
Parliament: functions of, 46, 50-52, 56, 59, 96-97, 165-66, 197, 220
Planning: and individual freedom, 58, 91, 96, 100-02, 108, 111; and knowledge or information, 66, 83, 85, 100, 112, 144-46; and pluralism, 7-13, 97-99, 166, 207-08; and the end of history, 86, 112, 195; as a result of oligopolies, 171, 176, 179, 190; (awareness of) the need for, 83-85, 109, 191, 207-08, 227; control of the planners, 96, 111-12, 169, 193; defined, 85-86; of personalities, 86-87; of the economy, 58, 96, 142-46, 171, 176, 190, 193; of the interactions between social techniques, 85, 109-10, 191, 207. See also Social techniques
Pluralism: ethical, 7-8, 24-25, 59, 195, 197, 215, 238; political theory of, xiii, 7-13, 115, 212, 225, 229; social, 8-12, 14, 52, 68, 97-99, 201-02, see also Interest groups
Politics: Big vs small, 193-96, 205, 209. See also End of politics or history
Political (dis)interest, xii, 1-2, 6, 12, 79, 159, 161, 201, 228. See also Democracy, effects of scale on; Masses, their political (in)competence
Political (in)competence. See Masses
Political leadership: and sense of responsibility, 54-55, 168-69, 195; its irrelevance, 193, 206. See also Charismatic leadership, Democracy and demagoguerie, Führerdemokratie
Political participation, xiv, 6, 115, 181, 183, 198; and self-fulfillment and community, 181-82, 201-02, 235. See also Democracy, Masses
Political party: its bureaucratization, 42, 46-47, 199, 218; its functions, 47, 50, 56, 165-66, 180, 197, 201, 212, 238; the meaning of its program, 6, 46, 59, 162, 164-66, 177, 180-81, 197, 236, 238
Political powerlessness or malaise, xii, 2, 6, 12-13, 50, 54, 62, 208, 218. See also End of politics or history
Polyarchy, 7-12, 15. See also Pluralism, political theory of
Positivism, 22, 62, 74, 119-20, 214
Postmodernism, 15, 17, 215; and pluralism, 14
Pragmatism, 64, 70, 83, 87, 186
Privatization, xii, 2, 12, 15, 171-72, 174, 206, 211, 234. See also Neo-liberalism
Public choice, 238-39
Public interest. See Common good
Public opinion, 43, 48-49, 59, 90, 138, 159, 162, 197, 218. See also Masses
Rationality: value and instrumental, defined, 29-30, 186; substantial and functional, defined, 80-81, 187; formal and substantive, defined, 31-32
Rationalization, xi, 28-34, 38, 45, 56-60, 74, 81-82, 90, 99, 109-11, 184-90, 200; controlling the process of, xii, 4, 6-7, 52, 57, 109, 205-09; defined, 2-3, 29-31; mental, 24-25, 34, 105, 131-34, 137, 140-41, 157, 184-85; of charismatic control, 53; of the economy, 33, 37, 58, 132, 135; of the political party, 47; of the political sphere, 70, 73, 92, 193-94, see also End of politics or history; of the self, 225; of the state, 41. See also Bureaucratization, Disenchantment
Relativism, 14, 27-28, 64, 69, 73, 112, 155, 158, 167, 181-82, 195-96, 205, 215, 228, 239
Science: and interdisciplinarity, 75-76, 106, 120, 226; and vision, 23, 76, 107, 121, 170; logical gap between facts and values, 24-25, 158, 185, 195, 214, 235; natural vs human sciences, 20-24, 64, 71, 74, 119-20, 214; progress in, xiii-xiv, 16, 24, 71-74, 121, 170, 173, 212-13, 226, 236; purpose of, 24-25, 71-72. See also Ideology, Positivism, Pragmatism, Sociology of knowledge
Scienticism, 62, 112. See also End of politics or history
Social consciousness, 109-10, 187, 196, 208
Social consensus, 90, 102-05, 107, 110, 169-70, 203, 207-08, 228. See also Pluralism, Moral confusion, Social (dis)integration
Social democracy, xii, 13-16, 65; administrator of capitalism, 152-53. See also Socialism
Social (dis)integration, 11, 90, 99, 102, 106, 184, 207-08, 240
Social techniques, 90-96, 100-01, 105, 185, 207, 222, 227; and concentration of power, 89-90, 100, 111, 193; defined, 89; unintended consequences of, 85, 101, 109-10, 224, see also Interdependence
Socialism, 123, 141-54, 159, 169, 174-81, 190, 193, 205-06, 222, 233-34; and bureaucratization, 45, 58, 147-48, 193; and democracy, 154, 169-70; and market system, 111, 142-45, 193; and modernization, xii, 13, 58, 65, 212; defined, 141; discipline and motivation within, 45, 146-49; its civilization, 141, 145, 178, 194-95, 232; its inevitability, 116, 124-26, 149-51, 153, 174-78, 190, 206, 238; rationality of its economy, 142-47, 151
Socialization of private business, 45, 58, 149-53, 171, 175, 237, 239. See also Business, bureaucratization of
Sociology of knowledge, 63, 66-74, 82, 109, 112, 123, 196, 208, 226
Sozial freischwebende Intelligenz, 71-73
State, the: and the legitimate use of force, 41, 56
Stimmungsdemokratie, 79, 110, 199
Struggle: between classes or social groups, 20, 33, 71, 91, 124, 138; between companies, 3, 33, 53, 128, see also Laissez faire, Classical economics, Capitalism; between gods or values, 25, 46, 149, see also Pluralism, ethical; between interest groups, 15, 58, 169-70, 182, see also Pluralism, political theory of; between nations, 219; for political power, 45, 47-49, 51, 53, 56, 111, 164-66, 169, 194, 197-98, 219, 239; for survival, 58, 83, 148; with a bureaucracy, 44-45, 147, see also Bureaucracy, threat to humanity
Tolerance, 82, 106, 156, 169, 187, 203, 208. See also Neutrality principle
Utilitarianism, 36-37, 133, 140, 157, 159, 163, 232
Utopia, xii, 13, 15, 209, 223
Verantwortungsethik. See Gesinnungsethik
Welfare state, xii, 14, 42, 107, 57-58, 176, 208