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Author: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might otherwise be considered a speculative volume.The purpose of The Political Systems of Empires is to apply sociological concepts to the analysis of historical societies through the comparative analysis of a special type of political system. This analysis does not purport to be historical or descriptive. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems.
Table of contents:
ONE Conditions of Development of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires
1] The Historical Bureaucratic Polities The Setting and the Problem
1. Introduction
2. Some Basic Characteristics of Political Systems
3. The Relations between the Political System and the Other Institutions in Society
4. Major Criteria jor Comparative Analysis of Political Systems
5. Principal Jypes of “Political Systems The Major Instances of Historical Bureaucratic Empires
2] The Fundamental Characteristics of the Political Systems and the Social Conditions of Their Development Basic Hypotheses
1. The Patterns of Development of Centralized Polities
2. The Political Activities “Undertaken by the Rulers to Insure the Development of Centralized Volities
3. The Development and Structure of Administrative Organs
4. The Development of a Structure of Organs of Political Struggle
5. The Major Characteristics the Political Systems. The Development of Autonomous Goals
6. The Limited Differentiation of Political Roles
7. The Development of Centralized Volity
8. The Development of Organs of Political Struggle and Bureaucratic Administration
9. The Volitical Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires as Distinguished from Patrimonial, feudal, and Modern Political Systems
10. The Problem of the Social Conditions of the Development of the Political Systems
1. The Internal and External Conditions of the Development of the Volitical Sysems. The Development of Aspirations to Autonomous Volitical Goals and of Limited Differentiation of the Social Structure
12. The Inadequacy the Internal Conditions. Two Cases of “Unsuccessful Attempts to Establish Centralized Volities
13. The Inadequacy of the Internal Conditions. The Problem of the “External” Conditions. The Development of Limited Differentiation in the Social Structure as the Main External Condition. The Historical Data to Be Used in Analysis and Illustrations
3] The Economic Structure of the Historical Bureaucratic Societies
1. The Development of the Economic Organization
2. The Basic Characteristics of the Agricultural Sectors
3. The Structure of the Agricultural Sectors
4. The Basic Characteristics of Mercantile and Industrial Activities
5. The Structure of Mercantile and Industrial Activities
6. The Major Types of Exchange Mechanisms
7. The Scope and Operation of Market and Monetary Mechanisms
8. Differences among the Economic Systems of the Empires
4] Religious and Cultural Organization and Orientation
1. Introduction
2. Religious Organization
3. Major Characteristics of Chinese Religious Organizations as Crystallized during the T’ang Regime
4. Religious Organization in the Islamic States, the Spanish-American Empire, and Europe
5. The Development of the Autonomy of the Religious System
6. Characteristics of Religious Value Orientations
7. The Development of Autonomous Ideological Orientations in the Religious System
8. The Structure of the Educational Systems
9. Summary
5] Social Organization and Stratification
1. Introduction
2. Social Organization and Stratification
3. The Structure of Associations and Communities
4. The Basic Characteristics of the Systems of Stratification
5. The Scope of flexibility of the Systems of Stratification
6. The Place of the Urban Classes in the Social Organization
7. The Extent and Limits of Criteria of Universalism and Achievement in the Systems of Stratification
8. Summary of the Main Characteristics of the Systems of Stratification and Social Organization
9. General Summary of the “Externar” Conditions and the Problems of Perpetuation of the Political Systems of Centralized Empires
6] The Social Conditions and the Institutionalization of the Political Systems
1. Recapitulation of the Hypothesis
2. Explanation of the Hypothesis The Regulative Problems Arising from the Autonomy of the Political Sphere and the Differentiation in the Social Structure
3. The Development of Autonomous Regulative Mechanisms
4. Developments in Legal Organization
5. Developments in Patterns of Communication
6. The Inadequacy of the Autonomous Mechanisms from the Point of View of the Regulative Problems
7. The Relation of the Development of Regulative Problems to the Institutionalization of ‘Bureaucratic Administration
8. The Relation of the Development of Regulative Problems to the Development of the Organs of Political Struggle
9. Summary of Explanation
10. Verification of the Hypothesis
11. Some Additional Problems of Explanation
12. The Conditions for “Development of Historical Bureaucratic Empires. Jhe Conditions for Jheir Perpetuation
TWO Conditions of Perpetuation of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires
7] The Policies of the Rulers
1. The Problems of Perpetuating the Political Systems
2. The Major Objectives of the Rulers
3. The Social Setting of the Implementation of the Rulers’ Aims
4. Policies of the Rulers in the Economic Field
5. The Rulers’ Policies in the Military field
6. Policies of the Rulers in the field of Social Organization and Stratification
7. The Legal Volteies of the Rulers
8. The Rulers’ Religious, Cultural, and Educational Policies
9. Policies of the Rulers in the Political Field
10. Classification of the Major Jypes of Policies of the Rulers
11. Major Contradictions in the Policies of the Rulers
12. Summary
8] The Political Orientations and Activities of the Major Groups and Strata
1. The Major Qroups Involved in the Political Struggle
2. The Place of the Bureaucracy in Political Struggle
3. The Place of the Army in the Political Struggle
4. The Vlace of the Aristocracy in the Political Struggle
5. Tbe Vlace of the Religious and Cultural Qroups in the Political Struggle
6. The Vlace of the Vrofessional Elites in the Political Struggle
7. The Vlace of the Urban Economic and Social Qroup in the “Political Struggle
8. The Place of the Q entry in the Political Struggle
9. The Vlace of the Veasantry in the Political Struggle
10. “She Maior Types of Political Orientations of the Principal Qroups and Strata and Jheir Relations to the Basic Premises of the Political Systems
11. Classification of Major Types of Political Issues
12. Classification of Major Jypes of Political Organizations
13. Classification of Major Types of the Means of Political Struggle
14. The Types Political Issues and Organizations Related to the Basic Premises of the Political Systems
9] The Social Determinants of the Political Processes A Comparative Analysis
1. Introduction. The Major Variables Influencing the Political Process
2. The Maior Types of Rulers’ Goals
3. “Cultural” Orientation and Qoals of the Rulers
4. The Influence of Cultural Orientations and Qoals in the Chinese Empire
5. Summary of the Influence of Cultural Orientations and Qoals on the Political Vrocess
6. The Major Jypes of Exigencies Developing in Culturally Oriented Volities
7. The Major Types of Collective-Executive Goals
8. The Influence of Collective-Executive Goals on the Patterns of Legitimation of the Rulers
9. The Influence of Collective-Executive Goals on the Volicies of the Rulers and on the Voliticeli Orientations of the !Major Strata
10. The Influence of the Different Types of Collective-Executive Goals on the Policies of the Rulers
11. The Influence of the Different Types of Collective-Executive Goals on the Political Activities of the Major Groups
12. The Patterns of Political Participation in Societies Oriented to Universalistic Religious or Cultural Goals
13. The Nature of the Exigencies Developing in Volities with Collective-Executive Goals
14. The Conditions jor Developing Goals of Self-Maintenance and Their Influence on the Volitical Process
15. The General Influence of Different Levels of Social Differentiation on the Volitical Vrocess
l6. The Influence of “Different Levels of Differentiation on the Political Activities of Various Groups
17. The Effects of Different Levels of Differentiation on the Policies of the Rulers
18. The Differentiation in the Social Structure and the Development of Different Types of Rulers Goals
19. The Influence of Incompatibility between the Political Goals of the Rulers and Those of the Major Strata on the Political Process
20. Summary
10] The Place of the Bureaucracy in the Political Process
1. The Basic Characteristics of the Bureaucracy. Their Influence on Its Political Orientations
2. The Major Types of Political Orientations of the Bureaucracy. The Patterns of Their Activities
3. Service-Oriented Bureaucracies
4. Subjugation of the Bureaucracy by the Rulers
5. Displacement of Service Goals by the Bureaucracy. tendency to Autonomy anâ Self-Orientation of the Bureaucracy
6. Self-Orientation of the Bureaucracy Combined with Service Orientation to the Polity
7. The Criteria of Social Composition and Position of the Bureaucracy in the Status System
8. The Social Conditions and Composition of the Bureaucracies
9. The Influence of the Rulers’ Goals and of the Relation between the Rulers and the Major Strata on the Development of Different Types of Political Orientations of the Bureaucracy
10. Changes in the Political Orientations of the Bureaucracy. Attempts to Reform the Bureaucracy
11. The Influence of the ‘Bureaucracy’s Service Orientation on Its Patterns of Activities
12. The Influence of the Bureaucracy’s Orientation to the Rulers and to Its Self-Aggrandizement on Its Vatterns of Activities
13. The Influence of the Activities of the Bureaucracy on the Basic Social Conditions of the Volitical Systems
11] The Place of the Political Process in the Social Structures of the Centralized Empires
1. The Interlinking of Traditional and Differentiated Political Activities in the Political Process
2. The Channelization of the Political Activities of the Major Groups ana Strata
3. The Institutionalization of Norms of Volitical Struggle and of Volitical Consensus
4. The Relations of Various Groups and Strata to the Basic Prerequisites of the Political Systems and to the Conditions of Their Perpetuation
12] Processes of Change in the Political Systems
1. Vrocesses of Change in Qroup Structure and in Political Organization
2. The Articulation of Processes of Change through Political Activities and Leadership
3. Major Types of Change
4. The Basic Prerequisites of the Political Systems of Centralized Empires
5. The Basic Conditions of the Perpetuation of the Political Systems. The Places of the Policies of the Rulers and of the Political Activities of the Major Groups in the Perpetuation of These Conditions
6. The Major Foci of Contradiction in the Political Process
7. The Basic Conditions and Characteristics of Processes of Accommodable Change
8. Accommodable Change in China
9. Major Conditions Related to Development of Processes of Marginal and Total Change
10. Political Processes Attendant on the Development of Processes of Marginal and Total Change
11. The Relation of External and Internal Conditions in the Processes of Marginal and Total Change
12. Analysis of Marginal Types of Change
13. General Conditions of the transformation of the Political System of the Historical Bureaucratic Societies into Pre-bureaucratic Polities
14. Political Processes Connected with the Transformation of the Political Systems of Historical Bureaucratic Societies into Pre-bureaucratic Polities
15. Maior Types of Pre-bureaucratic Polities into Which Historical Bureaucratic Societies Were transformed
16. The Transformation of the Political Systems of Historical bureaucratic Systems into More Differentiated Political Systems
17. Major Types of transformations of the Political Systems of “Historical ‘Bureaucratic Empires into More Differentiated “Political Systems
18. Summary
13] Conclusions
1. Summary of the Argument
2. The Relations between the Political System and the Other Parts of the Society. The Tendency to Political Autonomy and Generalization of Power
3. The Limitations on the tendencies of generalization of Power In the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires
4. The Tendencies to Generalization of Power in More Differentiated (Modern) Political Systems
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