Here the People Rule: Selected Essays (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None has been taken from one of my books. A would-be reader would have to go to much trouble to find them; that is the reason for bringing them together. Collections of essays are frequently miscellanies. This one is not. Except for the final two chapters, all deal with some aspect of the American political system. Some have to do with the structure and functioning of the federal system, others with the nature of publi(}-and incidentally other-organization, and still others with the causes and supposed cures of the social problems that government is nowadays expected to solve or cope with. The two final chapters are about the relationship between economics and political science; for lack of a better term they may be methodological. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-3 Federalism and the Dilemma of Popular Government....Pages 5-19 In Defense of the American Party System....Pages 20-37 Party “Reform” in Retrospect....Pages 38-52 Front Matter....Pages 53-55 Making a New Federal Program....Pages 57-96 Evaluating a Federal Program....Pages 97-109 Revenue Sharing in Theory and Practice....Pages 110-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-125 Policy Science as Metaphysical Madness....Pages 127-146 Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization....Pages 147-170 Ends and Means in Planning....Pages 171-181 The Training of the Executive....Pages 182-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-210 The Political Implications of Metropolitan Growth....Pages 211-229 The City and the Revolutionary Tradition....Pages 230-244 A Critical View of the Urban Crisis....Pages 245-255 The Zoning of Enterprise....Pages 256-267 Front Matter....Pages 269-270 Present Orientedness and Crime....Pages 271-281 How Many, and Who, Should Be Set at Liberty?....Pages 282-298 The Dangerous Goodness of Democracy....Pages 299-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-304 Some Alternatives for the Public Library....Pages 305-316 Economic Analysis of Political Problems....Pages 317-327 Are Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus Kin? ....Pages 328-339 Back Matter....Pages 341-348