The complexity of self government : politics from the bottom up / Ruth Lane.
The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create t...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; The General Argument; Approaches Used in the Book; 1 The Simplicity of Complexity; The High and Low of Politics; Turning a Page in Democracy; Meeting at a Bridge; The Game of Life and Politics; Looking for Sugar; The Practice of Complexity; Social Science in Politics; Not a Spectator Sport; The View from the Bottom Up; How Does a State See?; The Glory of Order!; The Complexity of the Customary; Bandits, Pirates, Gangs, and Kings; Racketeering as Life; The Argument of the Book; Specific Chapter Road Map; 2 The Haecceity of Politics; Contradictions of Democracy; Rational Democracy; The Escape from Uncertainty; Voting Is Not a Solution; The Rat and the Sucker; Sociology to the Rescue; The Role of Invisible Politics; The Island Called Nowhere; Escaping from Childhood; A Web Woven by Rules; The Simple Logic of Complexity; A Bottomless Political World; The Irrelevant State; Self Organization at the Bottom; Bottom-Up Theology; Politics, Public, and Private; The Construction of Social Reality; 3 The Complexity of Self Organization; The Search for Simplicity; Trimming Reality to Its Basics.
- Free Riding and Kantian Road RepairThe Master of Complexity; Schelling's Major Points; Negotiations as Art; Reading the Invisible Map; Politics under the Surface; A Case in Point; The Complexity of Self organization; The Individual Is Also Complex; Keeping Self Organization in Motion; Self Organization Offers Opportunity; Organization, Public and Private; Many Are Called, Some Are Chosen; Dancing on the Lattice; 4 The Social Complexity of Games; The Sociology of Interdependence; The Politics of Social Games; Drama in the Lattice; Performance as Politics; The Invisible Visible; The Invention of Meaning Veils and Terrorists; The Different Differences; Getting Beneath Foreign Policy; Games Piled on Games; The Politics of Reality; Theocracy from the Bottom Up; Be Careful What You Work for; Grassroots Politics in China; The Clash of Civilizations; Old Hundred Names; Life and Death in the T-Maze; The Eccentricities of Self-Education; 5 The Complexity of Change; Playing the Given Game; The Creative Playing of Cards; Structuring Structures?; Italy's Nonpolitical Past?; Between Consenting Adults; The Invisible Visible; Getting Started; Rearranging the World; If It's Not on Television, Then It Didn't Happen The Lincoln Comparison; Life at the Crest of Complexity; Self-Interested Government; Everybody Does It; Plus Ça Change . . .; The Question Is the Details; In Praise of Vision; 6 The Complexity of Political Intelligence; Understanding Other Players; The Loss of Rationality; The Hazards of Judgment; Working with Irrationality; The Goldwater Machine; Mapping the Neighbors; Rounding Out the Machine; The Kaiser and the Tsar; The Virtual Mind at Work; The Mild-Mannered Schoolteacher; After the Revolution; The Virtual Mugabe Machine; 7 The Complexity of Simplicity.