Politics and the future of industrial society
About: This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1977-01-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Industrial society & Politics.
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TL;DR: When Parties Fail explores alternative organizations in depth and comparatively as discussed by the authors, and three broadly comparative chapters consider the reasons for major party persistence in some nations and the causes and impact of their decline in others.
Abstract: Throughout history parties have faltered and new groups have emerged, but rarely has this process been so accelerated, so widespread, and so conducive to dramatic political change as in our present era. When Parties Fail explores alternative organizations in depth and comparatively. Among the organizations discussed are environmentalist groups, such as the West German and Swedish Greens, the Italian Radicals, and local protest groups in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Also considered are new groups seeking attention in unresponsive party systems, such as the Danish Gilstrup party, the British SDP, and American PACs; community parties and movements in Israel, India, Britain, and the American South; and antiauthoritarian movements in Poland (Solidarity), Taiwan, and Ghana. The case of France provides an example of major party survival. Three broadly comparative chapters consider the reasons for major party persistence in some nations and the causes and impact of their decline in others. The contributors to the book are David Apter, Myron J. Aronoff, Liang-shing Fan, Frank B. Feigert, Zvi Gitelman, Ronald J. Herring, Jon Kraus, Kay Lawson, Tom Mackie, Peter H. Merkl, Raffaela Y. Nanetti, Angelo Panebianco, Mogens N. Pedersen, Geoffrey Pridham, Peter Pulzer, Richard Rose, Donald Schoonmaker, Frank Sorauf, Robert C. A. Sorensen, Evert Vedung, Hanes Walton, Jr., and Frank L. Wilson. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the putative link between postmaterial values and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) among mass publics in Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture) and the United States (Spokane, Washington).
Abstract: This paper examines the putative link between Postmaterial values and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) among mass publics in Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture) and the United States (Spokane, Washington). Unlike Western postindustrial nations, in Japan support for environmentalism comes from two distinct sources--one traditional and the other modern. In Japan, materialist supporters of the NEP are generally indistinct from materialist nonadherents to the NEP, but they are quite distinct in political and personal attributes from the postmaterialist supporters of the NEP. In the U.S., in contrast, the materialist NEP support group is indeed distinct from both the materialist non-NEP group and from the postmaterialist pro-NEP group. This pattern of findings is attributed to the traditional Japanese view of the unity of nature and humans, a view that is mirrored in the New Environmental Paradigm. Unlike the United States, then, in Japan the New Environmental Paradigm is not really all that new.
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TL;DR: The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLQA) as discussed by the authors is an executive agreement that acknowledges that the two countries depend on each other for the well being of the Great Lakes.
Abstract: Between 1972 and 1987, Canada and the United States established a complex regime for the protection of the Great Lakes, the largest body of fresh water on the planet. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement is an executive agreement that acknowledges that the two countries depend on each other for the well being of the Great Lakes. The agreement has evolved in three phases, each with its own character. The first phase was from 1972 to the renegotiation of a new agreement in 1978. The second phase, from 1978 to the addition of a new protocol in 1987, was dominated by confirmation of the complexity and seriousness of toxic contamination of the ecosystem, and by growing public concern about how this problem could be managed. The third phase, from 1987 to the present, brought major changes in relationships with the International Joint Commissions and in the operations of the agreement's institutions that are still evolving.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that parliamentary institutions have increasing difficulty in addressing and dealing with the growing complexity, highly technical character, and rapidity of many developments in modern societies.
Abstract: This article argues that parliamentary institutions have increasing difficulty in addressing and dealing with the growing complexity, highly technical character and rapidity of many developments in modern societies. Deficits in representation, in knowledge and competence, and in engagement or commitment effectively erode the authority and status of parliamentary government. Major rule- and policy-making activities are being substantially displaced from parliamentary bodies and central governments to global, regional and local agents as well as agents operating in the many sectors of a highly differentiated, modern society. Governance - and sovereignty - are increasingly diffused upward, downward and outward beyond parliament and its government. The author identifies problems, practical as well as normative, with this general development and discusses the possibilities and limitations of reform.
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TL;DR: Many social scientists have argued that major political changes have occurred in the postindustrial societies of Western Europe, North America, and Australasia since the 1960s as discussed by the authors, and these changes includ...
Abstract: Many social scientists have argued that major political changes have occurred in the postindustrial societies of Western Europe, North America, and Australasia since the 1960s. These changes includ...
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