TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breiner,Peter
TI  - Max Weber & democratic politics
SN  - 0801431476 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JC263.W42 B74 1996
U1  - 306.2 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Weber, Max,
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Political science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Abbreviations of Max Weber's Works -- Political Ethics, PoliticalPrudence, and Political Sociology -- The Double Edge of Weber'sPolitical Sociology: The Objective and Subjective Logics of MethodicalAction -- Weber and Democracy -- A Note on Method -- 1. Social Scienceand the Interpretation of Means-Ends Rationality. Practical Values andthe Presuppositions of Social Science. The Rational "Understanding" ofRationality and Irrationality. The Ideal Type: Uniqueness versusGeneric Concepts. The Theory of Social Action: Verstehen andZweckrationalitat -- 2. The Sociological Clarification of Action:Weberian Political Judgment. Value Choice and Value Conflict. TheInstrumental Clarification of Action: Personal Projects andInstrumental Costs. Individual Choice and/or Power Struggle. TheProblems of Weber's Political Prudence -- 3. The Political Logic ofEconomics and the Economic Logic of Politics: Marginal Utility versusPrudential Political Economy. The Claims of Marginal Utility Theory
ER  -