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The International Library of Sociology

THE ANALYSIS OF
POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR

Founded by KARL MANNHEIM

The International Library of Sociology

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

In 18 Volumes

I	The American Science of Politics	Crick
II	The Analysis of Political Behaviour	Lasswell
III	The Analysis of Political Systems	Verney
IV	Central European Democracy and its Background	Schlesinger
V	The Decline of Liberalism as an Ideology (The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)	Hallowell
VI	Democracy and Dictatorship	Barbu
VII	Dictatorship and Political Police	Bramstedt
VIII	Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe	Schlesinger
IX	History of Socialism (The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)	Laidler
X	How People Vote	Benney et al
XI	The Logic of Liberty (The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)	Polanyi
XII	Pacifism	Martin
XIII	Patterns of Peacemaking	Thomson et al
XIV	Plan for Reconstruction	Hutt
XV	Politics of Influence	Wootton
XVI	Politics of Mass Society (The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)	Kornhauser
XVII	Power and Society (The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)	Lasswell and Kaplan
XVIII	Process of Independence	Mansur

THE ANALYSIS OF
POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR

An Empirical Approach

by

HAROLD D. LASSWELL

First published in 1948

by Routledge, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd

Reprinted in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1947 Harold D. Lasswell

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in The International Library of Sociology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library

The Analysis of Political Behaviour

ISBN 0-415-17537-2

Political Sociology: 18 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-17820-7

The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-17838-X

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality
of this reprint but points out that some imperfections
in the original may be apparent

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL NOTE

The present volume contains a selection of Prof. Lasswell's articles and papers on politics the science and the art of management written from the point of view of a man deeply-intent on making Democracy a working institution. The net is cast wide. It covers international political experiments and experiences of person-to-person relationships, morals, religion and quasi-religious movements; techniques of public opinion are scrutinized as well as the twisted workings of the mind and the subconscious.

The chapters were often written with a definite purpose near at handyet none of the interpretations of current affairs, ranging from the narrow circle of personal insecurity to the widest scale of world politics, are merely topical. None of the highly specialized discussions of concepts, terms and method are merely, or even essentially, academic . The making of distinction is the beginning of wisdom. Ideas and experiences are not complacently shelved in an elaborate card-index of atomistic categories, terms and sub-terms : all these particles are intended as the bricks and straw of a system of values and as a contribution to the study of society.

Because of this dual function of Lasswell's empirical and theoretical discussions the present volume is an attempt at fitting these scattered studies as published at various dates of a decade of rising insecurity into the somewhat tighter frame of a single volume without altering their original form or their topical character. To bring facts and statistics up to date, to substitute data of 1945 for those of 1933 or 1939 has not been attempted.

As to bibliographical information, it seemed hardly possible to improve on the wealth of material within the reach of the American scholar. However, it has been tried to insert, as far as possible, the dates of latest and English publications. The method of quoting authorities in the chapter on Legal Education was retained because of present library difficulties in this country and in the interest of size and balance. In due course, more of the books and articles referred to may, we hope, become accessible over here.

The chapters stand as sections of an argument, though each can be read and understood separately and as an entity. They have been pruned of repetitions and redundancies, but to try to tamper with the highly personal style of the author would have been impertinent in more than one sense.

The book, therefore, remains an American book : American in background, in the enviable amplitude of resources and scholarly teamwork, American in the acute awareness of the problems of slipping standards and ever-encroaching techniques.

It is a contribution to what may be called Sociology in Action , presenting sociology both as a science of analysis and as a tool to shape the world which it interprets.

CHARLOTTE LUETKENS.

LONDON,

5th June, 1945.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author desires to acknowledge the courteous permission received from responsible publishers and editors to reproduce, in whole or in part, articles appearing in the following journals and symposia : American Journal of Sociology; American Political Science Review; American Scholar; Chinese Social and Political Science Review; Ethics; Personnel Journal; Political Quarterly (London); Psychiatry : Journal of the Biology and the Pathology of Interpersonal Relations; Public Opinion Quarterly; Studies in Philosophy and Social Science; Yale Law Journal; The Future of Government in the United States, Essays in Honor of Charles E. Merriam, edited by Leonard D. White.

The following colleagues have kindly allowed me to make use of joint papers : Myres S. McDougal, Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Gabriel Almond, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College; Dr. Renzo Sereno, University of Chicago. Aid in exploring some of the newer avenues to knowledge has been received from many sources. In particular, my acknowledgments go to the Social Science Research Committee of the University of Chicago; the Rockefeller Foundation, New York City; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Dr. Nathan C. Leites, of the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, has been a productive collaborator and keen critic.

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