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(Political Research Quarterly 1960-Sep 01 Vol. 13 Iss. 3) Deininger, W. T. - Book Reviews - Great Political Thinkers - Plato To The Present. by WIL
(Political Research Quarterly 1960-Sep 01 Vol. 13 Iss. 3) Deininger, W. T. - Book Reviews - Great Political Thinkers - Plato To The Present. by WIL
(Political Research Quarterly 1960-Sep 01 Vol. 13 Iss. 3) Deininger, W. T. - Book Reviews - Great Political Thinkers - Plato To The Present. by WIL
The author presents several suggested changes to round out a very complete
analysis of cumulative voting. He is to be complimented for a job well done.
LEROY C. HARDY
Longbeach State College
The Security Aspects of Immigration Work. By ANTHONY T. BOUSCAREN.
(Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1959. Pp. 213.)
This book is interesting compilation of laws, cases, and administrative
an
dures. This reviewer sees no objection to them but neither does he find in the
book any arguments for or against them.
GEORGE C. S. BENSON
Claremont Men’s College
Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present. By WILLIAM EBENSTEIN. (New
York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., Third Edition, 1960. Pp. xii, 978. $8.50.)
Professor Ebenstein’s carefully edited anthology of selected writings by politi-
cal thinkers of the West now appears in a third edition. To the wide range of
original sources contained in earlier editions are added a new section on &dquo;The
Protestant Reformation&dquo; and expanded references in the deservedly praised &dquo;Bib-
liographical Notes,&dquo; which now number more than one hundred pages. The
Reformation literature contains selections from Martin Luther’s Secular Author-
ity: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed; John Calvin’s Institutes of the
Christian Religion; and the pseudonymous Huguenot writer Stephen Junius
Brutus’ A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants. There are no selections concerned
with the Reformation in England, but the author’s introductions to the selections
from Hobbes and Locke make brief mention of the religious situation in seven,
teenth-century England. The introductions to each chapter are clearly written
and are extremely helpful.
This large book should satisfy any reasonable teaching scholar concerned
with the problem of finding source readings for his students and himself! Two -
sveld, summarizes interest-group research in the United States and raises several
questions regarding research methodology in this area. From reading the volume,
one is impressed both by the great variation in the amount of pressure-group
research among the several countries, and by the increasing interest manifested in
research in this area during recent years. For example, Professor Kiyoski Tsuji
reports that &dquo;in Japan, the study of pressure groups ... had scarcely been under-
taken before the end of the second World War,&dquo; and Professor George E. Lavau
writes that research on interest groups in France is still &dquo;very fragmentary,&dquo; but
that French political scientists are &dquo;beginning to be passionately interested in
’pressure groups’ or ’interest groups.’ &dquo;
The information from the several countries supports the widely accepted
hypothesis that the political environment of a country predetermines the rela-
tive emphasis interest groups place on the various available political tactics
and methods. Thus, although the general aims of interest groups of all countries
tend to be similar, their strategic and tactical approaches are greatly influenced
by such factors as: the organizational structure of the government; the political
party and electoral systems; the level of technological development; the social,
economic, ethnic, and religious composition of the population; and the social
and political values held by the people. To illustrate the differing importance of
such factors, it might be noted that pressure groups in Great Britain generally