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Aggressive Behavior by Clients Toward Public Relief Administrators: A Configurative Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Gabriel Almond  and
Harold D. Lasswell
Gabriel Almond
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Harold D. Lasswell
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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This study of aggressive behavior by clients on public relief in Chicago in 1932–33 is intended to be relevant to two supplementary kinds of political theory. In so far as relations are found between economic changes and political activity, the findings bear upon the theory of political equilibrium, which seeks to state the general conditions under which political changes occur. In so far as relations are found which bear upon the diffusion of specific political symbols and practices, the results are pertinent to theories of political development, which emphasize the time-bound aspects of political change.

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Political Behavior
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American Political Science Review , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 1934 , pp. 643 - 655
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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References

1 The self-conscious use of equilibrium and of developmental modes of analysis is included within the configurative method of political analysis. This is referred to briefly in Lasswell, Harold D., “The Strategy of Revolutionary and War Propaganda,” in Public Opinion and World Politics, edited by Wright, Quincy (Chicago, 1933)Google Scholar, and it is expounded at some length in a volume forthcoming this year.

2 “Equilibrium” statements will not be carried further; but the data are relevant to the entire theory of human reactions to deprivation. Reference may be made to the abstract of a paper by Lasswell on “The Influence of Prosperity and Depression on Social Attitudes,” read before the 1933 meeting of the American Historical Association.

3 For further elaborations of this point of view, see the lecture first cited.

4 See Lasswell, , “The Psychology of Hitlerism,” Political Quarterly, July–September, 1933CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “The Political Significance of German National Socialism,” Religious Education, January, 1934Google Scholar.

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