Here the People Rule

1. Front Matter

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2. Compromise and Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Federalism and the Dilemma of Popular Government

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      Pages 5-19

   3. In Defense of the American Party System

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      Pages 20-37

   4. Party “Reform” in Retrospect

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      Pages 38-52

3. Democratic Policymakers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-55

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   2. Making a New Federal Program

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      Pages 57-96

   3. Evaluating a Federal Program

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      Pages 97-109

   4. Revenue Sharing in Theory and Practice

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      Pages 110-122

4. Politics versus Administration

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Policy Science as Metaphysical Madness

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      Pages 127-146

   3. Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization

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      Pages 147-170

   4. Ends and Means in Planning

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      Pages 171-181

   5. The Training of the Executive

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      Pages 182-208

5. The Capacities of Local Government

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-210

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   2. The Political Implications of Metropolitan Growth

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      Pages 211-229

   3. The City and the Revolutionary Tradition

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      Pages 230-244

   4. A Critical View of the Urban Crisis

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      Pages 245-255

   5. The Zoning of Enterprise

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      Pages 256-267

6. Three Problems for Democracy

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      Pages 269-270

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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.

• aspect
• nature
• organ
• organization
• political science
• reason
• structure
• time

• Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Edward C. Banfield

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