Sociologists, Economists, and Democracy (Midway Reprint)

Sociologists, Economists, and Democracy (Midway Reprint) by Barry, Brian. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226038247.

"Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new—or, more accurately, rediscovered—paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barrys short, provocative book played no small part in the debate that precipitated this shift. . . . Without reservation, Barrys treatise is the most lucid and most influential critique of two important, competing perspectives in political analysis: the sociological school of Talcott Parsons, Gabriel Almond, and other so-called functionalists; and the economic school of Anthony Downs and Mancur Olson, among others."—Dennis J. Encarnation, American Journal of Sociology