A comprehensive theory of politics is outlined. In the first part of the book the logic of competitive politics is analyzed and the political parties, the political ideologies, the role of mass media and the political intellectuals are outlined. In the second part of the book the constitutional frame of the political democracy is analyzed and the parliament, the government, the head of state, the constitutional court are outlined in every detail.
A review essay on a book by Brian Lee Crowley, The Self, the Individual and the Community: Liberalism in the Political Thought of F. A. Hayek and Sidney and Beatrice Webb (New York: Oxford U Press, 1987 [see listing in IRPS No. 54]). This book illuminates similarities between Hayek & the Webbs in their depoliticized economistic view of the nature of social thought. It is suggested that Crowley would better understand Hayek's (anti)politics if he considered the historical context from which it emerged. The form of Hayek's political anthropology (the individualist ethos of self-seeking enterprise) is attributed to the pluralistic nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in which he was raised. Crowley's work is considered in line with the current interest of the Aristotelian conception of politics, centered on the idea of active, participatory citizenship. This revival emerges in opposition to the antipolitics of classical liberalism & socialism, & their failure to satisfactorily address the issue of the relationship of man, state, & society. L. Taub
