Code: 11563076

The Viable Polity

Name: The Viable Polity
Brand: Temple Univ Pr
SKU: 11563076
Price: 73.63 EUR
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Author: Edward W. Lehman
ISBN: 9780877229940

by Edward W. Lehman

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Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 228
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr, 1992
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Viewing the rapid changes in our political landscape, Edward W. Lehman observes that understanding political processes has become increasingly critical and he suggests new criteria for evaluating the interaction of state and society. The Viable Polity challenges the customary ways that political successes and failures have been treated. Lehman concentrates on the fundamental assumptions needed to assess a democratic system's viability and explores the legitimation-crisis paradigm, insisting that we must move beyond its hollow rhetoric. Lehman then begins the conscious building of the viability paradigm. He contends that political viability must be judged along three interdependent dimensions: a state's capacity to pursue its goals effectively; the polity's ability to elicit citizen participation efficiently; and the possible legitimacy of prevailing political game rules. Armed with this framework, the author delves into three pivotal anomalies of modern democratic life. First, he considers how enhancing capacities in one sector can actually undermine the overall effectiveness of the state as well as foster inefficient involvement and erode legitimacy. Second, he examines the apparent contradiction implicit in the coexistence of extensive public apathy and widespread moralistic participation in democratic polities. Third, he investigates the circumstances that presently permit high political legitimacy to coexist with growing distrust of government leaders. Finally, Lehman contrasts the impediments to viability that are unique to the American political system with those that are more widely shared by liberal democracies.