Pluralist Political Science & "The State": Distinguishing between Autonomy & Coherence
Pluralist Political Science & "The State": Distinguishing between Autonomy & Coherence
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多元政治学
作者：
R. Ellis
关于“将国家带回”政治分析的争论通常结合了两个不同的问题：国家自治和国家一致性。本文认为，多元主义者和其他主流政治学家不愿意谈论“国家”，不是因为他们的国家主义批评者指责，因为他们的解释是以社会为中心的，而是因为他们怀疑政府行为者和机构是否足够连贯，以保证一种鼓励我们将政府视为单一行为者的说法。调查20世纪60年代美国政治的主流文献，作者认为，这些研究都假设并证明了政府行为者的实质性自主权。
The debate over "bringing the state back in" to political analysis typically combines two distinct issues: state autonomy and state coherence. This article contends that pluralist and other mainstream political scientists are reluctant to speak of "the state," not, as their statist critics charge, because their explanations are society-centered, but rather because they doubt that governmental actors and institutions are coherent enough to warrant a locution that encourages us to treat the government as a unitary actor. Surveying the mainstream literature on American politics written during the 1960s, the author argues that these studies both assumed and demonstrated substantial autonomy on the part of governmental actors.