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The Political Science of E. E. Schattschneider: A Review Essay*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

David Adamany
David Adamany*
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University of Wisconsinat Madison
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American Political Science Review , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 1321 - 1335
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1972

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I am indebted to my Wesleyan colleagues, Richard W. Boyd, Fred I. Greenstein, and Clement E. Vose, for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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2 Schattschneider's standard for his own writing was its forcefulness and persuasiveness when read aloud. His method was to read his work to his wife Florence and then to revise passages to improve their rhetorical quality.

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17 Schattschneider's work was identified as a “functional” approach by one of his earliest reviewers. F. A. Hermans, rev. of Party Government, by Schattschneider, E. E., Review of Politics, 4 (04, 1942), 241Google Scholar. On the other hand, a commentary on the development of functionalism in political science does not include Schattschneider among the early users of that theory. See Landau, Martin, “On the Use of Functional Analysis in American Political Science,” Social Research, 35 (Spring, 1958), 48–75Google Scholar. The confusion about the meaning of functionalism in the study of parties is discussed by Ranney, , Doctrine of Responsible Party Government, pp. 8–9, 157Google Scholar. See also, Sorauf, Frank, “Political Parties and Political Analysis,” The American Party Systems, ed. Chambers, William Nisbet and Burnham, Walter Dean (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 48–55Google Scholar.

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48 Schattschneider's views about democrary as a moral system were first elaborated in a discussion with Dr. Julian Hart of Yale in “Democracy as a Moral System,” one in a series of television broadcasts entitled “The American Government and the Pursuit of Happiness” conducted by Schattschneider on The National Broadcasting Company in 1957 and 1958. Schattschneider won a Freedoms Foundation Award for the series. Some of these ideas also appear in Semi-Sovereign People, pp. 104–109. But the main discussion is found in Two Hundred Million Americans, chap. 3.

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56 Party Government, pp. 187–188. Note Schatt-schneider's assertion in the same book, pp. 189–190, that pressure politics is not an attempt by a group to become a majority, but rather an attempt by a minority to control policy. He also distinguishes public interest groups, i.e., those whose members will accrue no direct gain from the causes they espouse and which are not limited in membership to those who have such direct interests, from special interest groups which are limited to members who will gain directly from the policies advanced by the group. Semi-Sovereign People, pp. 25–29. Also, “Pressure Groups Versus Political Parties,” p. 20.

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