Arenas of Power

Reflections on Politics and Policy

Theodore J. Lowi, Norman K. Nicholson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317263579
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena-"social regulatory policy." As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public policy, the system may be turned on its head. This volume shows the evolution of the public policy arena over more than forty years of writing and thinking and presents some never before published material including helpful analytical introductions. The book concludes as Lowi looks ahead to an internationalizing U.S. political economy and the need for a global political science.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: The Biography of Arenas of Power
• Part I Arenas of Power: The Model
• Part II Public Policy, History, and a Theory of Political Development
• Part III Bureaucracy and Arenas of Power
• Part IV Economic Sectors and Collective Goods
• Part V Outside the Box, Outside the Mainstream: The Politics of Movements, Radicalism, and Morality in Comparative Perspective
• Notes
• Key Publications by Theodore J. Lowi
• Index
• About the Author
• About the Editor