Politics: The Basics, 4th Edition

control and editing of those that exist becomes a matter for greater public concern. This is especially so when we consider that ...

politicians) and more ordinary people – including victims of crime and people with untypical sexual proclivities. The Press Comp ...

to, how they interpret the messages when they receive them, and how important these messages are in moulding political behaviour ...

2004 US presidential campaign Democrat Howard Dean’s supporters mainly organised themselves through a ‘meetup’ Internet site (ww ...

Democracy and communication In terms of our three models – centralisation, corporatism and pluralism – we can see the evidence w ...

Castells, Manuel, 2002, The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford, Blackwell One of the foremost thinkers on the possible effect o ...

LeDuc, Lawrence et al. (eds), 2002, Comparing Democracies 2: New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting, London, Sage R ...

Museum of Broadcast Communications looks at the impact of political processes on the development of television in the USA. http: ...

http://www.conservative-party.org.uk The Conservative Party. http://www.labour.org.uk The Labour Party. http://www.libdems.org.u ...

POLICIES This chapter considers how, in liberal democracies, such as Britain, public policies should be made and implemented, ho ...

manual jobs (or are unemployed) and live in Lancashire or Scotland, see as in the same category. Similarly the ‘same’ problem ma ...

informally through families and social networks. In political argu- ment this choice of social decision-making mechanisms is oft ...

The case for the market If the state is seeking to promote (following Bentham) ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, ...

unsold small sizes, would be of no significance. Conversely housing was rented and cheap – but there was no incentive to build m ...

In terms of the justification we have so far considered, the market as a device to achieve the satisfaction of consumer demand, ...

needs are met. However, it may be that the costs to the community of some productive activities will not be reflected in the cos ...

importance of family ties and behaviour is still difficult to under- estimate even in modern communities in which work, leisure ...

Second, many voluntary organisations lobby the state to pass legislation, or spend money on causes helpful to their client group ...

organisations and the behaviour of the bureaucrats within them. We saw earlier how Weber used a series of models of authority to ...

Lindblom’s ‘rational–comprehensive’ ideal-type model of the policy-making process may help clarify this issue. Lindblom (1959) c ...