Seymour Martin Lipset

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Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics
by Seymour Martin Lipset. 434 pgs.

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Aristotle on Political Man and the Conditions of the Democratic Order

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

Chapter I: The Sociology of Politics

PART I: The Conditions of the Democratic Order

Chapter II: Economic Development and Democracy

Chapter III: Social Conflict, Legitimacy, and Democracy

Chapter IV: Working-class Authoritarianism

Chapter V: Fascism -- Left, Right, and Center

PART II: Voting in Western Democracies

Chapter VI: Elections: Who Votes and Who Doesn't?

Chapter VII: Elections: The Expression of the Democratic Class Struggle

Chapter VIII: Elections: The Expression of the Democratic Class Struggle -- Continuity and Change

PART III: Political Behavior in American Society

Chapter IX: Classes and Parties in American Politics

Chapter X: American Intellectuals: Their Politics and Status

Chapter XI: The Emergence of the One-party South -- The Election of 1860

PART IV: The Politics of Private Government: A Case Study

Chapter XII: The Political Process in Trade-unions

A Personal Postscript

Chapter XIII: The End of Ideology?

NAME INDEX
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The First New Nation: The United States in Historical States in Historical and Comparative Perspective
by Seymour Martin Lipset. 366 pgs.

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The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Introduction: To the Norton Edition

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: America as a New Nation

1: Establishing National Authority

2: Formulating a National Identity

Part II: Stability in the Midst of Change

3: A Changing American Character?

4: Religion and American Values

5: Trade Unions and the American Value System

Part III: Democracy in Comparative Perspective

6: Values and Democratic Stability

7: Value Differences, Absolute or Relative: The English-Speaking Democracies

8: Values, Social Character, and the Democratic Polity

9: Party Systems and the Representation of Social Groups

10: Epilogue: Some Personal Views on Equality, Inequality, and Comparative Social Science

Name Index

Subject Index
3 .

Social Mobility in Industrial Society
by Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin Lipset. 312 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Index

Index
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Labor and Trade Unionism: An Interdisciplinary Reader ("The Political Process in Trade Unions: A Theoretical Statement" by Seymour Martin Lipset begins on p. 216)
by Seymour Martin Lipset, Walter Galenson. 382 pgs.

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Contributors

Selected Bibliography

Contents

Section I: The Theory of the Union

Wage Policy and Wage Differences

Section Ii: Labor Markets

On Choice in Labor Markets

Comments: "On Choice in Labor Markets"

Section Iii: Trade Union History

Union Growth and Structural Cycles

Structural Changes In the American Labor Movement And Industrial Relations System

Section Iv: The Union Monopoly Issue

Section V: Unions, Wages, and Inflation

Market Structure, Union Power and Inflation

The Incidence Of Collective Bargaining Once More

Economic Foundations of Wage Policy

Post-War Wage Bargaining In the United States

Section Vi: Democracy and Bureaucracy In Trade Union Government

The Compulsive Pressures Of Democracy in Unionism

The Political Process In Trade Unions: A Theoretical Statement

Section Vii: The Internal Political Life Of Trade Unions

Equity: a Study of Union Democracy

Control by the Membership In Building Trades Unions

Section Viii: Factors Shaping Occupational Behavior

"Strike-Proneness" And Its Determinants

Work Careers and Aspirations Of Automobile Workers

Some Aspects of the Nature Of Unionism Among Salaried Professionals in Industry

Section Ix: The Social. Environment Of Work Attitudes

Work Satisfaction and Social Reward In Quota Achievement: An Analysis of Piecework Incentive

Automation and The Automobile Worker
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Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan a Study in Political Sociology
by S. M. Lipset. 487 pgs.

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Introduction to the Anchor Edition

Notes

Part I: Agrarian Socialism

Foreword

Author's Preface

1: The Background of Agrarian Radicalism

Notes

2: The Social and Economic Setting

Notes

3: The Emergence of Agrarian Class Consciousness

Notes

4: The Farmers' Movement Goes Socialist

Notes

5: The Economic Consequences of the Depression

Notes

6: The Movement Grows to Power

Notes

7: Ideology and Program

Notes

8: Ccf Support

Notes

9: Ccf Leaders

Notes

10: Social Structure and Political Activity

Notes

11: Politics and Social Change

Notes

12: Bureaucracy and Social Change

Notes

13: Epilogue

Notes

Part II: Twenty Years Later

1: Agrarian Pragmatism and Radical Politics

Appendix

Notes

2: The Decline and Fall of Agrarian Socialism

Notes

3: The Doctors' Strike: Change and Resistance to Change in Saskatchewan?

Notes

4: Prairie Protest: the Medicare Conflict in Saskatchewan

Notes

5: Occupational Class and Voting Behavior: Electoral Support of a Left-Wing Protest Movement in a Period of Prosperity

Notes

Index
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The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics
by Everett Carll Ladd Jr., Seymour Martin Lipset. 407 pgs.

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Other Books by Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.

The Divided Academy Professors and Politics

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part One Intellectuals, Academics, and Political Life

1. the Politics of Intellectuals

2. the Ideology of Academics: Intersections of National and Campus Affairs

Part Two the Divided Academy: Differences in Professorial Politics and Their Sources

3. Academic Discipline and Politics

4. Discipline and Politics: the Case of the Social Sciences

5. Class, Intellectuality, and Academic Politics

6. Intellectuality and Social Background: the Liberalism of Jewish Academics

7. the Demography of Academic Politics: Age and Social Background

Part Three Issues of Campus Politics: from the 1960s to the 1970s

8. Issues of the 1960s: the Era of Campus Protests

9. Persisting Effects of the 1960s: the 1972 Presidential Election

10. Issues of the 1970s: Unionism and the Professoriate

11. Concluding Observations

Appendix A: the Carnegie Commission Faculty Study Questionnaire

Appendix B: the 1972 Faculty Study Questionnaire

Appendix C: Background and Attitudinal Characteristics of Faculty by Selected Disciplines

References

Index

About the Authors

Carnegie Commission on Higher Education Sponsored Research Studies
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Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development (Chap. 1 "Social Structure, Mobility and Development" by Neil J. Smelser and Seymour Martin Lipset)
by Seymour Martin Lipset, Neil J. Smelser. 399 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

1: Social Structure, Mobility and Development

2: Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Social Mobility

3: Measures and Effects of Social Mobility

4: Pre-Industrial Stratification Systems

5: Interaction Between Industrial and Pre-Industrial Stratification Systems

6: Changes in Occupational Structures

7: Changes in Rates and Forms of Mobility

8: Rural-Urban Balance and Models of Economic Development

9: A Case Study in Cultural and Educational Mobility: Japan and the Protestant Ethic

10: Psychological Origins of Mobility

11: The Disreputable Poor

12: Political Mobility and Economic Development

13: Social and Political Consequences of Mobility

Index
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Revolution and Counterrevolution: Change and Persistence in Social Structures
by Seymour Lipset Martin. 468 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Part I: Introduction: Comparative Sociology and History

Chapter 1: History and Sociology: Some Methodological Considerations

Part II: Value Differences in American Perspective: Canada, Latin America, and the United States

Chapter 2: Revolution and Counterrevolution: The United States and Canada

Chapter 3: Values and Entrepreneurship In the Americas

Part III: Social Stratification and Politics

Chapter 4: Issues in Social Class Analysis

Chapter 5: Class, Politics, and Religion In Modern Society: The Dilemma of the Conservatives

Part IV: Political Cleavages In Comparative Perspective

Chapter 6: Political Cleavages in "Developed" And "Emerging" Polities

Chapter 7: The Modernization of Contemporary European Politics

Chapter 8: Religion and Politics In The American Past and Present

Chapter 9: The Right-Wing "Revival" and The "Backlash" in the United States

Part V: Continuities in Scholarship: Three Pioneers Of Comparative Analysis

Chapter 10: Harriet Martineau: A Pioneer Comparative Sociologist

Chapter 11: Moisei Ostrogorski and The Analytical Approach to The Comparative Study of Political Parties

Chapter 12: Robert Michels And the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"

Acknowledgments

Index

Name Index
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Perspectives on Revolution and Evolution (Chap. 3 "Revolution and Counterrevolution — Some Comments at a Conference Analyzing the Bicentennial of a Celebrated North American Divorce" by Seymour Martin Lipset)
by Henry S. Albinski. 300 pgs.

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Perspectives on Revolution and Evolution

Preface

Contributors

Contents

· 1 · Introduction

· 2 · Cliché and the Canadian-American Relationship

· 3 · Revolution and Counterrevolution—some Comments at a Conference Analyzing the Bicentennial of a Celebrated North American Divorce

· 4 · Law in a Republican Society: Continuity and Change in the Legal System of Postrevolutionary America

· 5 · Organized Politics and Political Temper: Predisposing Factors and Outcomes

· 6 · Evolution and Canadian Political Culture: the Politics of Accommodation

· 7 · the Implications of an Evolutionary Tradition for the Structure and Functioning of Canada's Economic Development

· 8 · Melting Pot or Mosaic: Revolution or Reversion?

· 9 · the Place of Learning and the Arts in Canadian Life

· 10 · Evolution and Revolution as Aspects of English-Canadian and American Literature

· 11 · the Quiet Revolution and Revolutionary Movements Among Quebec French Canadians

· 12 · Some Conclusions About the Revolution‐ Evolution Problem

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The New American Right (Chap. 6 "The Polls on Communism and Conformity" by Nathan Glazer and Seymour Martin Lipset)
by Daniel Bell. 239 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

The Contributors

Contents

1: Interpretations Of American Politics

2: The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt

3: The Intellectuals And the Discontented Classes

4: The Revolt Against the Elite

5: Social Strains in America

6: The Polls on Communism And Conformity

7: The Sources of The "Radical Right"

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The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970
by Seymour Martin Lipset, Earl Raab. 554 pgs.

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Preface

Notes

Chapter 1 Political Extremism

Notes

Chapter 2 Before the Civil War

Notes

Chapter 3 the Protestant Crusades from the Civil War to World War I

Notes

Chapter 4 the Bigoted Twenties

Notes

Chapter 5 the 1930's: Extremism of the Depression

Notes

Chapter 6 the 1950's: Mccarthyism

Notes

Chapter 7 the Era of the John Birch Society

Notes

Chapter 8 the Birch Society and Its Contemporaries: Social Base

Notes

Chapter 9 George Wallace and the New Nativism

Notes

Chapter 10 George Wallace: the Election and the Electorate

Notes

Chapter 11 Extremists and Extremism

Notes

Chapter 12 Political Extremism: Past and Future

Notes

Methodological Appendix to Chapter 11

Notes

General Index

Index of Proper Names
12 .

Americanism According to Professor Lipset, in Insight on the News
by Stephen Goode. 2 pgs.

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Out of the Alcoves, in The Wilson Quarterly
by Seymour Martin Lipset. 7 pgs.

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Racial Diversity Reconsidered, in Public Interest
by Stanley Rothman, Seymour Martin Lipset, Neil Nevitte. 15 pgs.

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Steady Work: An Academic Memoir, in Annual Review of Sociology
by Seymour Martin Lipset. 27 pgs.

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