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A Comment on Dr. Schaffer's Paper

A Comment on Dr. Schaffer's Paper By R. S. PARKER We now come to that pedestrian and unexciting subject which nevertheless comes in handy as a trash bin into which to shovel the unwanted leavings of rationalized politics courses. It is merely concerned with the causes and nature of a revolution in social organization without which the success of the industrial revolution is both inconceivable and incomprehensible. The bureaucratic revolution has made possible the system of capitalistic production and the effective development and control of large states, altered the structure and character of social classes, changed the whole nature and balance of political power, and produced the neuroses on which the whole new science and profession of psychoanalysis have largely been built up. This is the miserable and insignificant concern of Dr. Schaffer and our three or four other scavengers of the political science Augean stable. Dr. Schaffer’s paper is itself such a delightful pipe-opener for a discussion that I almost feel he has reversed our roles. He has asked so many of the pertinent questions and outlined so many of the problems of framing the teaching of public administration, without offering dogmatic solutions, that I am left only two possible ways in which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1958 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
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10.1111/j.1467-8497.1958.tb00161.x
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By R. S. PARKER We now come to that pedestrian and unexciting subject which nevertheless comes in handy as a trash bin into which to shovel the unwanted leavings of rationalized politics courses. It is merely concerned with the causes and nature of a revolution in social organization without which the success of the industrial revolution is both inconceivable and incomprehensible. The bureaucratic revolution has made possible the system of capitalistic production and the effective development and control of large states, altered the structure and character of social classes, changed the whole nature and balance of political power, and produced the neuroses on which the whole new science and profession of psychoanalysis have largely been built up. This is the miserable and insignificant concern of Dr. Schaffer and our three or four other scavengers of the political science Augean stable. Dr. Schaffer’s paper is itself such a delightful pipe-opener for a discussion that I almost feel he has reversed our roles. He has asked so many of the pertinent questions and outlined so many of the problems of framing the teaching of public administration, without offering dogmatic solutions, that I am left only two possible ways in which

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Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley

Published: Aug 1, 1958

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