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  • Politics: Who Gets What, When, How

    Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, which was first published in 1936, is the classic analysis of power and manipulation by ruling elites and counter-elites. The themes that occur throughout this essay have become the guideposts for most modern research in techniques of propaganda and political organization."It is unquestionably one of the most influential treatments of politics published in this ... Read more

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  • Propaganda Technique in the World War

    When nations mobilize for total war, truth becomes the first casualty. In this groundbreaking exploration of psychological warfare, Harold D. Lasswell pulls back the curtain on one of history's most devastating conflicts to reveal how governments transformed ordinary citizens into willing participants in mass destruction. Drawing from unprecedented access to wartime documents and propaganda ... Read more

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  • Psychopathology and Politics

    Psychopathology and Politics by Harold D. Lasswell is a study of personality types as they relate to politicians, business leaders, and church officials. First published in 1930, the work applies the concepts of clinical psychology to the future prediction and prevention of societal and political conflict.Born in 1902 to a schoolteacher mother and clergyman father, Lasswell was devoted to ... Read more

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  • The Future of Political Science

    Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However, there is a side to Lasswell less well known, but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity. This book, written at the start of the culture wars thirty years ago, outlines the basic core position of political ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Power and Society

    A Framework for Political Inquiry

    In Power and Society, Harold D. Lasswell collaborates with a brilliant young philosopher, Abraham Kaplan, to formulate basic theoretical concepts and hypotheses of political science, providing a framework for further inquiry into the political process. This is a classic book of political theory written by two of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century.The authors find their ... Read more

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  • Power and Personality

    This book concerns the wanting, getting, and giving of power. Recent advances in medicine, sociology, and psychology have deepened our understanding of the motives, skills, and experience that operate between leaders and those who are led. Since power is about decision-making, it figures not only in offi cial institutions but in other organizations, including political parties, pressure groups, ... Read more

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  • Essays on the Garrison State

    Edited by Harold D. Lasswell ...
    Lasswell introduced the developmental construct of the garrison state as an antithesis of the civilian state more than fifty years ago, suggesting it would evolve from the industrial state in response to technical achievement. His original thoughts on the garrison state construct remain applicable today. This important volume brings together four major essays written by Lasswell. ... Read more

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  • The Signature of Power

    Buildings, Communications, and Policy

    Advanced industrial societies are becoming aware of the impact of what they do to the physical and biological environment, and also what that environment does to individuals. In The Signature of Power, Harold D. Lasswell examines the symbolic use people make of their surroundings and the complexity of the way they interpret an altered environment. Transformed habitats can change experiences and ... Read more

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  • The Analysis of Political Behaviour

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume III of eighteen in collection on Political Sociology. Originally published in 1948, this is an empirical approach to the analysis of political behaviour. The present volume contains a selection of Prof. Lasswell's articles and papers on politics— the science and the art of management —written from the point of view of a man deeply[1]intent on making Democracy a working institution. ... Read more

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  • The Good Years

    From 1900 to the First World War

    The period between 1900 and the First World War could be called the Confident Years, the Buoyant Years, the Spirited Years, or named after some bright, hopeful color, like the Golden Years. It could be done, but such tags are the invention of pundits, social historians, and professional name coiners. To the many varied people who lived through the era--the men and women who wistfully recall ... Read more

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  • Legal Education and Public Policy

    In spite of a cascade of criticism launched against the social sciences, they have brought a qualitative improvement in method and theory to the study of human beings and human relations. In the process of developing now commonplace foundations of social research few individuals have exercised a greater role in justifying and enriching social scientific thought and practice than Harold D. Lasswell ... Read more

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  • Power & Society Ils 50

    Edited by Harold D. Lasswell ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First published in 1998. The present book is a by-product of the Research Project on Wartime Communication which was organized within the framework of the Library of Congress shortly before World War II. As a guide to research and analysis, it was necessary to review the then current state of knowledge of political communication, particularly of war communication. The manuscript was finished by ... Read more

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