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With this inquiry I shall seek to establish that Thorstein Veblen advanced theories which related the vested interests with power. To accomplish this I shall first dissect the meanings behind Veblen's definitions of "the vested interest", "intangible assets" and "free income." I then, using the previous analysis relate the state to vested interests and solidify their collective unity. After this connection I proceed onto analyzing the implications of the vested interest and how it relates to the common man. Power, normally analyzed within the context of political science is rarely spoken of within economics, this analysis strives to bring the idea of power into the realm of economics through Thorstein Veblen's work, The Vested Interest and the Common Man [1919].

Рассмотрены основные концептуальные значения понятий «государственная политика» и «государственная образовательная политика» в западном и отечественном научных дискурсах. Выяснено значение английских терминов и обозначено их соотношение с традицией украинской политической мысли. Обрисовано соотношение государственной политики и государственной образовательной политики. Проанализированы существующие трактовки государственной образовательной политики и раскрыты ее сущностные характеристики. ; This article surveys key conceptual definitions of 'public policy' and 'public educational policy' in Western and Ukrainian academic discourses. The author finds out the meaning of English terms and presents their correspondence to the traditions of Ukrainian political science as well as discovers their correlation against each other. The article provides the analysis of actual definitions of public educational policy and discovers its essential characteristics.

В статье обосновывается зонтичный характер концептуальной модели публичной политики, позволяющей раскрыть ее сложносоставный характер через взаимосвязанные и взаимообусловленные измерения, такие как информационно-дискурсивное, деятельностно-активистское, управленческое и пространственное. Автор показывает, что зонтичная концепция публичной политики позволяет раскрыть комплексность и многоуровневость публичных процессов и интегрировать различные измерения, представленные разными теориями политической науки. ; The article explains the umbrella nature of the conceptual model of public policy, that is sufficient to show its composite character through interrelated and interdependent measurements (informational and discursive, activity-based, administrative and spatial). The author shows that the «umbrella concept» of public policy can reveal the complex and multi-level character of public processes and integrate various dimensions presented by different theories of political science.

This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random Mechanisms. Random processes allow representativeness with respect to individuals and groups. They significantly reduce opportunities to influence political decisions by means of bribery and corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be applied fruitfully to a wide range of fields, including politics, the judiciary, the economy, science and the cultural sector. However, it is important that random selection processes are embedded in appropriately designed institutions.

Категории автономии и самоуправления обнаруживают много общего в своем социально-правовом и политико-правовом содержании, что, однако, не позволяет их полностью отождествлять. Разброс мнений по данной проблеме в науке остается огромным на протяжении многих десятилетий. В статье предпринята попытка выявить и соотнести содержательный смысл самоуправления и автономии на фоне теоретических концептов территориальной организации публичной власти. ; Categories of autonomy and self-government find many similarities in their socio-political, and legal content that does not, however, completely identified. The range of opinions on this issue in science remains huge for many years. The article attempts to identify and correlate meaningful sense of self and autonomy on the theoretical background of the concepts of territorial organization of public authority.

The provision of public goods is an important problem in economics and the social sciences. It is often claimed that this problem has the structure of the well-known Prisoner's Dilemma so that rational and self-interested individuals would not be able to provide any public good by spontaneous cooperation. In this paper, we argue that this pessimistic view of the possibility spontaneous cooperation is largely unjustified, since the game theoretic analysis of public goods shows how their voluntary provision is indeed feasible in a number of circumstances. We conclude by considering the implications of the game theoretic approach to the problem of public goods for political philosophy and, in particular, for the possibility of "ordered anarchy" as defended in the works of Anthony de Jasay.

The charge to link academic research to good ends is one that has, lately, been linked to federal funding for all types of political science research, to include public adminsitration research. Public administration researchers are proded frequently to develop "points for practitioners" or "recommendations for practice" from their academic research projects. The purpose of these points is to provide practitioners with tools to improve government services and, it is hoped, to provide more good in their communities. Should public administration researchers concern themselves with the good that their research could produce? In this disputatio, I take up this question to suggest that the good we provide as public administration researchers is a limited, community level, good.

Sociology has begun to question how new genetic sciences affect older ways of constructing and contesting social identity, including forms of identity politics that have brought women and minorities significant gains. This article presents US debates on genetics, identity politics, and race in order to theorize emergent transformations in light of the genomic revolution. Examining recent developments in the realms of pharmaceuticals and ancestry estimation, I argue that traditional forms of identity politics are still actively at work, though they are being marketized in novel ways. This article combines theories of racialization and medicalization to detail how genomics ushers in a subtle new version of identity politics: a pharmaceuticalized citizenship wherein health rights and political participation are co-envisioned in individualistic molecular terms.

The challenge of finding appropriate tools for measurement validation is an abiding concern in political science. This article considers four traditions of validation, using examples from cross-national research on democracy: the levels-of-measurement approach, structural-equation modeling with latent variables, the pragmatic tradition, and the case-based method. Methodologists have sharply disputed the merits of alternative traditions. We encourage scholars—and certainly analysts of democracy—to pay more attention to these disputes and to consider strengths and weaknesses in the validation tools they adopt. An online appendix summarizes the evaluation of six democracy data sets from the perspective of alternative approaches to validation. The overall goal is to open a new discussion of alternative validation strategies.

This article asserts that more purposely designed physical workplaces could contribute to performance improvement by leveraging human capital and management capacity in public organizations. It provides an initial survey of the literature on workplace design by introducing a synthesis of available research drawn from environmental design, organizational ecology, social psychology, architecture, political science, and business and public administration. Based on the literature review, I developed a model of organizational performance that underscores the importance of "place" variables, such as space arrangement and indoor environment. The model implies that physical workplace has a significant impact on affective, behavioral, and performance outcomes in the organization. The article concludes with implications for theory and practice in using workplace strategy for organizational excellence.

This essay is a memorial piece about Vincent Ostrom (September 25, 1919–June 29, 2012). I start by reviewing his academic history and then turn to Professor Ostrom's major intellectual legacy—his effort to overturn the dominant paradigm in public administration and political science on metropolitan government reform. The three most important contributions of his work are discussed, including the introduction of public goods theory into the study of public administration and his work on quasimarkets and the Tiebout model. Three controversies or conundrums raised by his work are then discussed. Finally, the essay considers whether Professor Ostrom was ultimately successful in his effort to overthrow the traditional approach to the production and delivery of public goods at the city government level.

This article is an overview of the state of scholarship in South African Public Administration. It begins by looking at the state of Public Administration research internationally. This is followed by an analysis of the literature on the state of the field in South Africa which focuses on empirical studies undertaken of the quality of articles both in local Public Administration journals and PhDs in the field. The findings of these studies were that Public Administration research in South Africa in respect of both journal articles and doctoral theses is of a low quality. The article suggests that Politikon along with the South African Political Science community needs to cultivate closer links with those in the Public Administration community who are interested in doing critical research on public bureaucracies.

This thesis examines what circumstances compel individuals to take policy preferences in line with their objective self-interest. In particular, I argue that social class plays an important role in shaping individuals' policy preferences. Whereas recent work in political science has examined social class from the perspective of socioeconomic status, I contend that conceptualizing social class as a group identity plays an important complementary role. I show that social class identification has a statistically and substantively significant effect – comparable to changes in partisanship, ideology, and income – on individuals' preferences for a policy related to their economic situation. Ignoring social class identification when evaluating class effects prevents us from fully understanding individuals' preferences, a weakness especially consequential amidst concerns about politicians' responsiveness to low-income people.