Suchergebnisse

1. Political and Intellectual Background -- Perspectives on Tracy and the idéologues -- Tracy's life and writings: an outline -- 2. Scientific Method and Ideology -- Science and certainty -- The concept of idéologie -- 3. Signs, Language, and the Critique of Metaphysics -- The science of signs -- Metaphysics and religion -- 4. Individuals and Social Relations -- Individual will as desire and action -- The bases of social existence -- 5. Social Morality and Civil Society -- Moral education and policing -- Legislation and instruction -- 6. Social Science and Public Policy -- Tracy's 'science sociale' -- Limits of social mathematics -- 7. Production and Economic Classes -- The creation of wealth -- Economic classes -- 8. The Problem of Economic Inequality -- 9. Liberal Politics and Elitism -- Enlightened democracy -- Critique of Montesquieu -- 10. Public Instruction and Ideology -- Ideological education -- Defence of the 'classe savante' -- 11. Conclusion: Social Science and Liberalism.

For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed. --