Table of Contents

Part 1 The need for social change: facing the slings and arrows - personal reflections on a life of social activism; conditions for guiding change; author's note; a theory of societal guidance. Part 2 The elements of social change: decision making and social change - author's note; mixed scanning revisited; rationality is anti-entropic; normative-affective factors - toward a new decision-making model; the responsive community - author's note; liberals and communitarians; basic human needs, alienation, and inauthenticity; polity and the public interest - author's note; special interest groups versus constituency representation; the fight against fraud and abuse - analyzing constituent support. Part 3 The structure of social change: encapsulation and self-sustaining systems - author's note; encapsulated competition; on solving social problems - inducements or coercion?; unification and integration of systems - author's note; on self-encapsulating conflicts; a paradigm for the study of political unification; the epigenesis of political communities at the international level; European unification - a strategy of change. Part 4 The ethics of social change: ethics and change - author's note; toward deontological social sciences; the case for a multiple-utility conception; the moral dimension in policy analysis.