The politics of defense contracting : the Iron Triangle

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The politics of defense contracting : the Iron Triangle

Gordon Adams ; [charts, Lillian Bogeinsky]

Transaction Books, 1982, c1981

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  • : paper

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Bibliography: p. 453-465

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ISBN 9780878554577

内容説明

This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described The Iron Cage as -an example of the history of ideas at its very best-; while Robert A. Nisbet said that -we learn more about Weber's life in this volume than from any other in the English language.- Weber's life and work developed in reaction to the rigidities of familial and social structures in Imperial Germany. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. It is the triumph of Professor Mitzman's approach that he convincingly demonstrates how the internalizing of these severe experiences led to Weber's pessimistic vision of the future as an -iron cage- and to such seminal ideas as the notion of charisma and the concept of the Protestant ethic and its connection with the spirit of capitalism. The author's thesis also serves as a vehicle for describing the social, political, and personal plight of the European bourgeois intellectual of Weber's generation. In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. As Lewis Coser writes in the preface, until now -there has been little attempt to bring together the work and the man, to show the ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly.-
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: paper ISBN 9780878710126

内容説明

This is the first systematic study of the relationship between government and defense contractors, examining in detail the political impact of the eight most powerful defense contractors. It details ways in which Boeing, General Dynamics, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Rockwell International, and United Technologies influence government, from their basic contract activity, corporate structure, and research efforts, to their Washington offices, Political Action Committee campaign contributions, hiring of government personnel, and membership on federal advisory committees.Adams concludes with specific recommendations for changes in disclosure requirements that would curb some of the political power corporations can wield. It also suggests specific ways in which the Iron Triangle can be made subject to wider congressional and public scrutiny.

目次

Preface, Acknowledgments, PART 1 - THE IRON TRIANGLE: CONGRESS, THE PENTAGON AND THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, PART 2 - THE WEAPONS BUSINESS - INSTITUTIONS, ROLES AND PEOPLE, PART 3 - THE INFLUENCE BUSINESS - POLITICS AND POWER, PART 4 - CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, PART 5 - PROFILES, Appendix A, Appendix B, Bibliography

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