Samuel P. Huntington

Michel Crozier

Joji Watanuki

The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

دولت فروتن، دولت مدرن

Erhard Friedberg

In The Pension Fund Revolution, originally published nearly two decades ago under the title The Unseen Revolution, Drucker reports that institutional investors, especially pension funds, have become the controlling owners of America's large companies, the country's only capitalists. He maintains that the shift began in 1952 with the establishment of the first modern pension fund by General Motors. By 1960 it had become so obvious that a group of young men decided to found a stock-exchange firm catering exclusively to these new investors. Ten years later this firm (Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette) became the most successful, and one of the biggest, Wall Street firms. Drucker's argument, that through pension funds ownership of the means of production had become socialized without becoming nationalized, was unacceptable to the conventional wisdom of the country in the 1970s. Even less acceptable was the second theme of the book: the aging of America. Among the predictions made by Drucker in The Pension Fund Revolution are: that a major health care issue would be longevity; that pensions and social security would be central to American economy and society; that the retirement age would have to be extended; and that altogether American politics would increasingly be dominated by middle-class issues and the values of elderly people. While readers of the original edition found these conclusions hard to accept, Drucker's work has proven to be prescient. In the new epilogue, Drucker discusses how the increasing dominance of pension funds represents one of the most startling power shifts in economic history, and he examines their present-day Impact. The Pension Fund Revolution is now considered a classic text regarding the effects of pension fund ownership on the governance of the American corporation and on the structure of the American economy altogether. The reissuing of this book is more timely now than ever. It provides a wealth of information for sociologists, economists, and political theorists.

The Bureaucratic Phenomenon

hard Friedberg

La liberté des acteurs est un fait ; l'existence de systèmes organisés et cohérents en est un autre. Comment ces deux réalités s'articulent-elles ? Michel Crozier, l'auteur du Phénomène bureaucratique, associé à Erhard Friedberg, montre, contre tous les mirages d'une rationalité totalitaire, le caractère essentiellement " opportuniste " des stratégies humaines et la part irréductible de liberté qui existe dans toute relation de pouvoir. Ce livre n'est pas un manuel de sociologie des organisations - discipline dont Michel Crozier est l'un des fondateurs en France - mais bien une sociologie de l'action organisée. Il constitue une véritable critique de la raison collective.

les contraintes de l'action collective

L'acteur et le système

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Why the System Is Breaking Down

The Trouble with America

Michel Crozier

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