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Pragmatism and the Group Theory of Politics

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Pragmatism and the group theory of politics are closely related both historically and philosophically; and both have a continuing importance for contemporary political science. Yet these two intellectual traditions have seldom been related in a systematic fashion. This failure to examine both the tree and the branch—the parent tradition of pragmatism and its offshoot, group theory—has foreshortened and distorted theoretical perspective. In this article I have tried to amend this situation by relating the two traditions, setting both in a larger historical and theoretical perspective, and examining their common philosophical suppositions.

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  • Smith, David G., 1964. "Pragmatism and the Group Theory of Politics," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(3), pages 600-610, September.
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