Cambridge University Press, Date: 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. small tear in dustwrapper. 1991. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521410401 9780521410403 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0521410401, ISBN13: 9780521410403, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The problem of social authoritarianism is commonplace in practice, and yet it exceeds the scope of application of existing social and political theories. When private organizations and institutions wield their collective power arbitrarily within a modern civil society, a nation-state's government and economy may remain (or become) liberal-democratic and pluralistic. Actors, however, experience increasing social control in their everyday lives. Only by distinguishing analytically between whether social order within any organization, institution, or sector of a modern civil society is based on actors' demonstrable social control or on their possible social integration can a nation-state's susceptibility to social authoritarianism be isolated empirically. Bringing this distinction to the literature and to research, the theory of societal constitutionalism leads to a critical reappraisal of the findings of comparative politics and also the findings of the sociologies of law, professions, and organizations and occupations. Research findings in these fields that have hitherto appeared unrelated are now revealed both to explain historical shifts in a nation-state's direction of social change and to predict contemporary shifts. For instance, certain practices by physicians within hospitals, by chemists within ...
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