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One of the most persisting cleavages in the social sciences is the opposition between two lines of thought conveniently associated with Adam Smith and Emile Durkheim, between homo economicus and homo sociologicus. Of these, the former is supposed to be guided by instrumental rationality, while the behavior of the latter is dictated by social norms. The social sciences thrive on two intellectual traditions. One is founded on the triumphant rise of natural science since the sixteenth-century. The other is rooted in nineteenth-century ideas of history and the writing of history from the inside. (European Journal of Political Research / AuD)

In recent years institutions have regained their lost prominence throughout the social sciences. A host of rules, routines, and norms shape social and political interaction, the new institutionalists agree. However a sociological and a rational choice approach have disagreed on a number of issues, most notably on how institutions shape political action. Notwithstanding this, the conception of man and human rationality is the root of most controversies. In contrast to other presentations this essay argues that the most promising aspects of the two traditions are already converging. If the rational choice approach abandons its narrow conception of rationality, and if the sociological approach concedes that human beings have a capacity of conscious reflection over goals and values irrespective of context, one of the critical obstacles for mutual theoretical enrichment has been swept away. A more reasonable conception of rationality sees preferences as culturally bounded and shaped by experiences constrained by institutions. Within this framework, dialogue between the two approaches is possible; different theories of institutional change can be seen as being complementary or as rivals; a host of politically germane issues can reenter our research agenda. (European Journal of Political Research / FUB)

A review of party-related articles in major political science journals over the past century reveals an increase in the incidence of such articles during the behavioral revolution and a decline in the proportion of studies that view parties holistically or in their organizational aspects and an increase in research on mass and legislative behavior. The essay calls for scholars of American parties to merge empirical findings with the generalist and normative concerns of an earlier age, to assess the recent advent of parties as ideologically focused instruments of policymaking

Entwicklung von Selbstverwaltungskonzeptionen in der polnischen Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft und der politischen Praxis seit 1905. Rechtsgeschichtlicher Überblick unter Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen geistesgeschichtlichen Wechselbeziehungen im Rahmen der neueren europäischen Staatslehre sowie der historisch-empirischen Gestaltungsformen. BIOst/Crp

B(c)ơrger und res publica / Hans Maier -- Fundamentalismus oder Fundamentalkonsens? / Heinrich Oberreuter -- Die Grenzen des Gehorsams / Bernd Guggenberger -- Politik mit dem Sozialstaat als lernf(c)Þhige Demokratie / Heinz Kleger -- Verfassungspatriotismus und nationale Frage / Alexander Schwan -- Betrachtungen zur Entwicklung des Staatsverst(c)Þndnisses in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Karl Dietrich Bracher -- Verfassungspatriotismus / J(c)ơrgen Gebhardt -- Das Staatsbewusstsein der Franzosen / Wolfgang J(c)Þger -- Staat und Gesellschaft in Italien / Luigi Vittorio Ferraris -- Das britische Staatsverst(c)Þndnis / Nevil Johnson -- Begriff und Wirklichkeit des Staates in Lateinamerika / Manfred Mols -- Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Europa und die Dritte Welt / Dieter Obernd(c)œrfer