Harold D. Lasswell on Political Sociology
Edited by Dwaine Marvick
462 pages
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© 1977
Harold D. Lasswell's pioneering work in the field of political sociology is distinguished by his insistence on studying major contemporary problems, his willingness to try new methods of inquiry, and—above all—his conviction that, to understand events on the political stage, one must also analyze the social and historical context. From the huge corpus of Lasswell's work, Dwaine Marvick has chosen representative selections that demonstrate the wide range of his interests, the intellectual framework of this thought, the characteristics of his style, and the diversity of his methods. The volume is organized around the five fields of central interest to Lasswell: elite analysis in an contextual perspective, developmental constructs, political communications research, the use of psychoanalysis to explain political behavior, and the role of intellectuals in policy-making processes.
Contents
Introduction: Contexts, Problems, and Methods
Elite Analysis and the Contextual Approach
1. Shared Subjectivity: The State as a Manifold of Events
2. Systemic Analysis: Culture and Personality
3. Politics: Who Gets What, When, How
4. The Study of Political Elites
The Use of Developmental Constructs
5. The Configurative Analysis of the World Value Pyramids
6. Skill Politics and Skill Revolution
7. The Garrison State
8. The World Revolution of Our Time
Political Communications: The Work of Symbol Specialists
9. The Wartime Propaganda Front
10. The Vocation of Propagandists
11. The Strategy of Revolutionary Propaganda
12. Style in Political Communications
13. Why Be Quantitative?
14. Communications Research and Public Policy
Political Psychiatry
15. The Triple-Appeal Principle
16. The Psychology of Hitlerism
17. Politics, Personality, and Culture: The American Case
18. Political Constitution and Character
Intellectuals and the Political Process
19. Policy and the Intelligence Function
20. The Choice of Sanctioning Norms
21. Prototyping New Political Practices
22. The Perspectives of Revolutionary Intellectuals
Notes
Bibliography of Works by Harold D. Lasswell
Index
Elite Analysis and the Contextual Approach
1. Shared Subjectivity: The State as a Manifold of Events
2. Systemic Analysis: Culture and Personality
3. Politics: Who Gets What, When, How
4. The Study of Political Elites
The Use of Developmental Constructs
5. The Configurative Analysis of the World Value Pyramids
6. Skill Politics and Skill Revolution
7. The Garrison State
8. The World Revolution of Our Time
Political Communications: The Work of Symbol Specialists
9. The Wartime Propaganda Front
10. The Vocation of Propagandists
11. The Strategy of Revolutionary Propaganda
12. Style in Political Communications
13. Why Be Quantitative?
14. Communications Research and Public Policy
Political Psychiatry
15. The Triple-Appeal Principle
16. The Psychology of Hitlerism
17. Politics, Personality, and Culture: The American Case
18. Political Constitution and Character
Intellectuals and the Political Process
19. Policy and the Intelligence Function
20. The Choice of Sanctioning Norms
21. Prototyping New Political Practices
22. The Perspectives of Revolutionary Intellectuals
Notes
Bibliography of Works by Harold D. Lasswell
Index
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