Selected Articles and Documents on: Political Theory
In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 1214-1219
ISSN: 1537-5943
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In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 1214-1219
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The review of politics, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 486-510
ISSN: 1748-6858
Two ancient symbols—public opinion and the middle class— have nearly always been associated in some degree. Public opinion has stood, first of all, for participation in the government of a society. Such participation has raised the issue of the quality of opinion or the quality of the participation in the government of res populi. From the time of the Greeks at least, the middle class has been regarded by certain conservatives, or let us say, Aristotelians, as having moderate, intelligent, and balanced opinion.Though public opinion and the middle class idea have been often associated, they have each had different and divergent lines of emergence; different theoretical problems have been presented, and some of this development is to be outlined here. Yet at the tense moments of the eighteenth-century revolution, the French Revolution and its children, they were joined together in close doctrinal union at the height of an historical crisis.
In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 917-923
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In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 600-607
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In: American political science review, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 274-280
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In: The review of politics, Band 17, S. 486
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: American political science review, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 1208-1214
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 601-622
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: American political science review, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 908-915
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In: American political science review, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 602-607
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In: American political science review, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 321-339
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A study of the relation of intellectuals to public opinion suggests the outlines of a sociology of the intellectuals as a functioning social group. The libertas philosophandi has long been asserted by the educated elite, and in pre-democratic days the theoretical relation to public opinion was quite clear. Philosophers have had the civil liberty to criticize government, but the same right was not generously extended to the vulgar conscience, or the common men who composed the "open public." Actually, the rise of democracy has not really clarified the issue, though the mass or Gnostic movements of modern times have asserted the right to judge the government, the intellectuals, and any other group that might stand in the way of political victory. The democratic intellectual can hardly say that the revolting mass does not have the right to judge him, but he can and does say that public opinion must be reformed, purified, educated, or directed by the latest in scientific hypothesis. More especially, however, the modern selfconscious intellectuals have directed their fire against other groups or elites who have a following and who in fact provide a pluralistic leadership of public opinion.
In: American political science review, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 269-275
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In: American political science review, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 1205-1210
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In: American political science review, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 921-927
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In: American political science review, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 542-543
ISSN: 1537-5943