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003 OCoLC
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008 740506s1966 nyua b 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aJA73$b.D55 1966
055 4 $aJA73 D48 1966
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aDeutsch, Karl W.$q(Karl Wolfgang),$d1912-1992.
245 14 $aThe nerves of government;$bmodels of political communication and control$c[by] Karl W. Deutsch. With a new introd.
260 $aNew York,$bFree Press$c[1966]
300 $axxxvi, 316 pages$billustrations$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aA Free Press paperback
500 $a"90729."
504 $aBibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 265-290).
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $aPart I. The search for models of society and politics -- chapter 1. Tools for thinking : the general nature of theory and models -- Knowledge and models in social science -- The study of political systems -- The choice of models -- The unity of human knowledge -- Models, knowledge, and structure -- chapter 2. Some classic models in the history of thought -- The use of material models as resources of thought -- Some models in earlier thought -- The classic models of mechanism -- The classic concept of organism -- Concepts drawn from history -- chapter 3. Some recent models in the social sciences -- Some approaches by Rashevsky, Zipf, Simon, and Richardson -- The "ideal types" of Max Weber -- Structural-functional analysis -- chapter 4. The theory of games of von Neumann and Morgenstern -- The potential relevance of game models -- The concepts of transitivity and location of sovereignty -- The limited plurality of stable solutions -- Objective and subjective strategies -- A static theory : assumptions of unchanging rules and performance -- Values in games and in politics -- A crucial point : capacities and costs of thinking -- Games of deterrence and the breakdown of classic game theory -- Some general assumptions of deterrence theory
505 0 $aPart II. Cybernetics: new models in communication and control -- chapter 5. A simple cybernetic model -- The viewpoint of cybernetics -- Analogies and convergent developments -- The general concept of self-controlling system -- The concepts of information, message and complementarity -- Memory and recognition -- An operational approach to quantity and quality -- Feedback and equilibrium -- Learning and purpose -- Values and the capacity to learn -- chapter 6. Consciousness and will as patterns of communication flow -- Consciousness in social organizations -- Confrontation for simultaneous inspection -- Will and the closure of decision systems -- The nature of "free will" -- chapter 7. Political power and social transactions -- The interdependence of power and will -- Conflict and its measurement -- The analysis of power by Dahl and Lasswell -- The general interchange model of Talcott Parsons -- Some interchanges of the political system -- Power as a currency -- Gold and force as damage-control mechanism -- A perspective on political theory -- Some quantitative implications -- A possible paradigm -- chapter 8. Autonomy, integrity, and meaning -- Autonomy and the location of control -- Integrity and dignity -- A concept of mind -- Spirit and meaning
505 0 $aPart III. Communication models and political decision systems -- chapter 9. Communication models and decision systems : some implications for research -- The concept of information -- The reception of information -- Richness of information and selectivity of reception -- The measurement of information and the fidelity of channels -- Information and social cohesion -- Face-to-face communication networks and legitimacy symbols -- The "middle level" of communications and command -- The internal intelligence function and continuing leadership -- Voluntary imitation and morale : the concept of mimesis -- Decision systems and information-carrying capacity -- chapter 10. Learning capacity and creativity in politics : the search for cohesion and values -- The structure of facilities for social learning -- Possible measurement of learning and innovating performance -- Policy aspirations and prophetic leadership -- Communication, cohesion, and the limits of states and federations -- Preferences, authority, and values -- chapter 11. Government as a process of steering : the concepts of feedback, goal, and purpose -- Some applications of negative feedback : opposition to overshooting the goal -- An alternative to the "equilibrium" approach -- Some applications of amplifying feedback : automatic reinforcement of response -- Some implications of goal-changing feedback : continuing decisions systems -- chapter 12. Political self-awareness, autonomy, and sovereignty -- Secondary symbols in organizations -- Boundaries and autonomy -- The concentration of decisions : sovereignty and vulnerability in political systems -- chapter 13. The self-closure of political systems -- Some optimistic views of politcs -- Politics and evil -- Autonomy and its models of failure -- The probabilities of failure -- How can autonomy be protected against failure? -- The concepts of humility and of the sin of pride -- The concepts of lukewarmness and faith -- The concepts of reverece and idolatry -- The concept of love and its two opposites : the dilemma of cosmopolitanism and nationalism -- The outside world as a resource : the concepts of curiosity and grace -- Eclecticism and the concept of spirit -- Some implications for the study of politics as a sphere of social decision -- chapter 14. The politics of power and the politics of growth -- The concept of political will -- The problem of political power -- The politics of growth -- Dimensions of growth -- The task of politics : accelerating needed innovation.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aPolitical science$xMethodology.
650 0 $aCommunication in politics.
650 6 $aScience politique$xMéthodologie.
650 6 $aCommunication politique.
650 7 $aCommunication in politics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00870243
650 7 $aPolitical science$xMethodology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01069816
650 7 $aKybernetik$2gnd
650 7 $aPolitik$2gnd
650 07 $aKybernetik.$2swd
650 07 $aPolitik.$2swd
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDeutsch, Karl Wolfgang, 1912-$tNerves of government.$dNew York, Free Press [1966]$w(OCoLC)557811431
830 0 $aFree Press paperback.
994 $a92$bCST
976 $a10011320754