Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions
Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions
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多数决定的不平衡对制度研究的启示
DOI：
10.2307/1960638
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发表时间：
1980
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
W. Riker
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文献类型：
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作者：
W. Riker
当代政治学（例如，在政治社会化、舆论研究等学科中）政治学倾向于强调对价值观和品味的研究（因为假设政治结果--就像市场结果一样--是由个人偏好的融合决定的），而政治学的老传统则强调对制度的研究。上一代人所遵循的政治理论研究路线涉及寻求品味的平衡;但它表明，这种平衡即使存在，也很少存在。由此推论，研究中的谨慎引导政治学去调查制度中的经验主义，这些制度虽然是凝固的味道，但却是经得起科学调查的“不稳定常数”。
While contemporary political science (as, for example, in such subjects as political socialization, studies of public opinion, etc.) tends to emphasize the study of values and tastes (because of an assumption that political outcomes–like market outcomes–are determined by the amalgamation of individual preferences), the older tradition of political science emphasized the study of institutions. The line of research in political theory followed during the last generation has involved seeking an equilibrium of tastes; but it has revealed that such an equilibrium exists only rarely, if at all. The inference then is that prudence in research directs the science of politics toward the investigation of empirical regularities in institutions, which, though congealed tastes, are “unstable constants” amenable to scientific investigation.