Abstract
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.
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