Research Catalog

Title

Politics of ideocracy / Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz and Alfred Wayne Penn.

Author

Piekalkiewicz, Jaroslaw.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Penn, Alfred Wayne, 1937-

Description

x, 274 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Totalitarisme
• Autoritarismus
• Totalitarismus
• Totalitarianism
• Comparative government
• Authoritarianism
• totalitarianism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.

Contents

Ch. I. Ideocracy as a Distinctive Form of Politics. What Is Ideocracy? Ideocracy Distinguished. Intellectual Origins of Ideocracy. Organic and Mechanical (Pragmatic) Concepts of the State. Politics and Problem Solving. Community and Ideology. Ideocracy Described -- Ch. II. Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Ideocracy. Traditional Culture and Divergent Individual Propensities -- Ch. III. Ideocratic Framework of Politics. The Foundations of Legitimacy. The Organization of Political Leadership. The Penetration of Political and Social Organizations. The Nature and Scope of Political Involvement: Total Mobilization. The Major Components of Ideocracy -- Ch. IV. Causes of Ideocracy. Stability. Types of Social Disruption. Multipliers of Cumulative Disruption. Leadership, Ideology, and Organization. Scenario of Ideocratic Revolution -- Ch. V. Ideocracy in Dynamic Perspective: Inception and Stabilization. Inception of Ideocracy. Stabilization -- Ch. VI. The Evolution of Ideocracy. Self-Destruction. Peaceful Erosion. Regeneration -- Conclusion: Ideocracy and Processes of Dynamic Change.

ISBN

• 0791422976
• 9780791422977
• 0791422984
• 9780791422984

LCCN

94008841

OCLC

• ocm30036743
• 30036743
• SCSB-2044355

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library