The Complexity of Self Government

Politics from the Bottom Up
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-316-61528-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create the institutions within which they live. Understanding this practical level of human activity is made possible through complexity theory, recently developed in computer models, but of wider use in understanding everyday human behaviour. To this complexity framework, the book adds social science to give life and colour to the analytical picture: micro-sociology from Garfinkel and Goffman, anthropology from Bourdieu, and non-technical game theory based on Thomas Schelling's microanalytics, to give rigour and bite. Theoretical examples include India's Mumbai, Iran, the marshes of southern Iraq, Berlusconi's Italy, backcountry China, Zimbabwe, and Nelson Mandela's revolution in South Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lane, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The simplicity of complexity; 2. The haecceity of politics; 3. The complexity of self organisation; 4. The social complexity of games; 5. The complexity of change; 6. The complexity of political intelligence; 7. The complexity of simplicity.

Über Autor(innen)

Lane, Ruth
Ruth Lane is an Associate Professor at the American University, Washington, DC, where she teaches methodology and comparative politics. Her research focuses on the computer modelling of bottom-up political processes.