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Appears also as vol. xxxv, no. 2, of Annals of the American academy of political and social science. ; Mode of access: Internet.

SYSTEMS THEORY WAS BORROWED BY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS FROM BIOLOGY WHERE ITS MEANING IS COMPLEX AND TECHNICAL. AS APPLIED TO SOCIAL SCIENCE, A SYSTEM IS A SET OF INTERRELATED ELEMENTS AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE SET. GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY IS CONCERNED WITH DEVELOPING A SYSTEMATIC, THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR DESCRIBING GENERAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE EMPIRICAL WORLD.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- One -- 1. Beginnings (1274b32- 41) -- 2. Citizens (1274b41- 1276b15) -- 3. To Be or Not to Be (1276a6- 1276b15) -- 4. To Be and to Be (1276b16- 1277b32) -- 5. Noncitizens (1277b33- 1278b5) -- Two -- 1. "The Few in Opposition" (1278b6- 1279a21) -- 2. From a Man's Point of View (1279a22- 1280a6) -- 3. Ignoble Division (1280a7- 25) -- 4. The Oligarchic Logos (1280a25- 1281a10) -- 5. Unreason Is the Reason (1281a11- 39) -- 6. The Multitude, the Demos, and Free Men (1281a39- 1282b13) -- Three -- 1. Political Philosophy (1282b14- 1284a3) -- 2. Hares and Hermaphrodites (1284a3- 1284b34) -- 3. Kings (1284b35- 1286a9) -- 4. The King of Kings (1286a7- 1286b40) -- 5. The King of the Beasts (1287a1- 1288b6) -- Appendix 1: A Note on the Translation -- Appendix 2: Translation of Aristotle's Politics, Book III -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Preface: semi-annual meeting (forty-eighth year) of the Academy of political science, New York city, April 11, 1928. --Fact-finding, by governmental or voluntary agencies.--Injunctions in labor disputes.--Trade unionism and employee representation plans.--Present needs in industry

In 1977, Charles Lindblom concluded his study of Politics and Markets with the assertion that "the large private corporation fits oddly into democratic theory and vision. Indeed, it does not fit." In 1983, Robert Reich envisioned The Next American Frontier as the eradication of the distinction between business culture and civic culture in the United States and the full integration of the corporation into the country's key political and social processes. Failure to achieve such a new political-economic compact could mean, Reich asserted, the end of democracy's progress in America. Between Lindblom and Reich lie six short years in time and one vast gulf in political theory and policy perspective. Their positions set the framework for a whole series of political choices confronting American politics today. They also set an agenda for political science as a discipline that studies power, authority, and social change—an agenda calling for an expansion of both intellectual focus and analytical paradigms.Differences between the purposes and contents of Lindblom's and Reich's studies can be cited, of course. Politics and Markets presents itself as a scholarly work in the theory of political economy, whereas The Next American Frontier has a definite prescriptive flavor designed to influence current political debate. But such differences do not obscure the important element shared by the two books: recognition of the power and position of large corporations as the determining factor in the political-economic future of liberal democracy. Generated from this are several critical questions both authors confront: What is the purpose of public power and that of private economic power in advanced industrial societies today? What should be the relationship between the two as regards the preservation of liberal democracy? What is that relationship when the large corporation is taken into account? What redirection of corporate power is necessary or possible? What blending of corporate institutions and political institutions does liberal democracy allow—or demand?