Homo Politicus – Towards a Theory of Political Action and Motivation

Q3 Social Sciences

World Political Science Pub Date : 2013-01-16 DOI:10.1515/wpsr-2013-0004

Zsolt Boda

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Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to sketch an anthropology for political studies. Political science relies extensively on behavioral models borrowed from economics (taking human action to be rational and self-interested), sociology (explaining behavior in terms of norm-abidance and conformity), or even psychology (seeing actors as being motivated by their emotions, neurosis etc.). Strikingly, political science has not endeavored to develop an anthropology for its own purposes. Does it mean that there are no motivational structures that are distinctively relevant to political action? The paper argues that this is not the case. In fact, there is a distinctive conception of a human actor present in political science, even if implicitly, i.e., the conception of an actor who aims at what she perceives to be the common good, and guides her behavior along the lines of collective rationality. The paper aims at providing the first steps towards laying the theoretical and empirical foundations of such a model.

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政治人——走向政治行动与动机理论

摘要本文的目的是为政治研究勾画一个人类学。政治学广泛依赖于从经济学(认为人类行为是理性的和自利的)、社会学(从遵守规范和从众的角度解释行为)甚至心理学(认为行为者是由他们的情绪、神经官能症等驱动的)中借用的行为模型。引人注目的是，政治学并没有为自己的目的而努力发展一种人类学。这是否意味着不存在与政治行动有明显关联的动机结构?文章认为事实并非如此。事实上，在政治科学中存在着一个独特的人类行动者概念，即使是隐含的，也就是说，一个行动者的概念是以她所感知的共同利益为目标，并按照集体理性的路线指导她的行为。本文旨在为建立这样一个模型的理论和实证基础提供第一步。

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