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The aim of the paper is to reconstruct and analyze Alvydas Jokubaitis's understanding of politics. It is argued that Jokubaitis couples politics with morality in opposition to the liberal project of the autonomy of politics, which seeks to separate these two fields of human activity. According to Jokubaitis, politics is a realm of realization of the spiritual side of human nature. That is the reason why, through morality, he also tries to align politics with other domains of human spirituality, such as religion and metaphysics. What is common to politics, morality, religion, and metaphysics is the sphere of normativity, i.e., that of purposes, principles, and imperatives. At the same time, Jokubaitis attacks those schools of modern thought which interpret politics as corresponding solely to the physical, animal side of human nature. In this regard, positivism and scientism are singled out as the crudest attempts to misconstrue the nature of politics. The paper is based on a conviction that the acknowledgement of the importance of morality allows one to piece together Jokubaitis's various considerations about the nature and distinctiveness of politics into a coherent whole.

Traditionally the content of policy models has been dominated by the objectivated, 'factual' and particularly rational-analytic aspects of a policy issue. Using examples derived from a current project within a UK local government authority, this paper describes a significantly different approach to policy-modelling. Adopting a deliberate client orientation we have sought to construct for the policy maker client models which are representations of the world as he sees it. They explicitly reflect the policy maker's subjective, qualitative, idiosyncratic values and beliefs, including those theories and concerns he has about his internal political environment as an individual seeking to influence the outcome of policy decisions. The approach we will describe is founded on our own belief, derived from theory and practice, that many of the problems surrounding interest, commitment and implementation of the work of policy analysts are a consequence precisely of a failure to pay attention to the images of the world that are relevant to the client of policy analysis, rather than the 'rational' world of the analyst.

Managing the base relocation issue is linked not only to the political viability of the US-Japan alliance but also to the legitimacy of the Japanese government. (Survival / SWP)

Politics in peasant societies is mostly the everyday, quotidian sort. Hence, if one looks only for politics in conventional places and forms, much would be missed about villagers' political thought and actions as well as relationships between political life in rural communities and the political systems in which they are located. To make this case, the paper explains the meaning of everyday politics by distinguishing it from two other realms of politics and then discusses four types of everyday politics. The paper concludes by suggesting that, in addition to better understanding peasant societies, the concept of everyday politics makes us - researchers - further aware of, and realise the importance of, our own everyday political behaviour.

Politics in peasant societies is mostly the everyday, quotidian sort. Hence, if one looks only for politics in conventional places and forms, much would be missed about villagers' political thought and actions as well as relationships between political life in rural communities and the political systems in which they are located. To make this case, the paper explains the meaning of everyday politics by distinguishing it from two other realms of politics and then discusses four types of everyday politics. The paper concludes by suggesting that, in addition to better understanding peasant societies, the concept of everyday politics makes us - researchers - further aware of, and realise the importance of, our own everyday political behaviour.

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