Politics and government how people decide their fate

• Main Author: Deutsch, Karl W (Author)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Houghton Mifflin 1980
• Edition: THIRD EDITION
• Subjects: Comparative government; Political science
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: 656 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes (page i-xxvii)
• ISBN: 0395284864

This book aims to make clear the principles of political analysis. It seeks to help the reader to learn to recognize the important questions in public life, and thus in the lives of all of us. It also aims to help him or her recognize within each question the crucial facts and conditions that make the main difference to what will happen. The ability to recognize the problems and facts that matter most in deciding our fate is only part of politics. For politics involves both knowledge and action. It is, therefore, in part a science, in part an art, in some small part a gift, and in part a matter of personal decision. But most of it can be learned and taught. Those who care enough to learn about politics as much as can be learned and taught. Those who care enough to learn about politics as much as can be learned abaout it have also an excellent chance to decide actively and responsibly about it, and to master in time the art and gift of acting on this knowledge.