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Politička promjena: problemi nekih pristupa
Political Change: Issues of the Approach

Author(s): Dag Strpić
Subject(s): Political Theory, Political economy
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: political change; political theory; political economy;

Summary/Abstract: In classical political ad politico-economical theory, the opposition of the traditional and the modern in set in the very conception of political and social bodies in motion, and in their change power - versus antique and medieval conception. In contemporary science, as it is surveyed in this study, the political ’’duration” and ’’change” are the key mediation point of whole development and change. They are often treated modernizationally, instead as a transformation of a genuine polity. This is a significant difficulty in political action ad its complex strategy. Strategy of change and development of a polity must include ’’choice” in evaluations of its proper state ad the state of its referring environment, of their predictable internal and external changes, of various options and their alternative potential development scenarios in crossing. It is a combination of a prospective history of the complex societal change and development, and of an implementation of its own meaning of action. This combination must be founded in focused specialist analysis of comparative politico-economic processes whose foundation is in theories of national and world systems, and in general political and politico-economic theory. In a Schumpeterian equilibrium and disequilibrium relation of development of the politico-economic system, a permanent unexpected penetration of ’practical action” intensifies the ’’Hume’s fork” of analytical models without a general theory, especially theory of the state. Almond & Pye’s theory of political development dissociated itself from the development and from the analysis of an individual political system. Inside political system boundaries it isolated itself from major sources of real political change and development - instead developing a really politological approach to problems oft the polity. Convergent general and special theories in social sciences, with a differentiation in disciplinary scientific approaches - are the necessity of the new political economy as much as theory of complex development and change.

  • Issue Year: XXX/1993
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 3-23
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Croatian