The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences

Index

I N D E X single-case-study research design used Abelson, Robert, 96 in, 46–47; as social science conducted Abrams v. United States, 132–33 in realist spirit, 9; strategies identiacademic flight from reality, 2 fying causal mechanisms used in, 43– Acme Die Casting Corp., NLRB v., 138 44. See also consent action: collective, 65–78, 167–68; harm “Applications” (Mill), 162 principle applied to, 152, 161–63, 174 Arafat, Yasir, 191 Adams, Gerry, 191 Arrow’s theorem, 207 AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Ashcraft, Richard, 6 Children), 183 Austin, J. L., 5, 31, 184 alternative theories, 78–83 autonomy: arguments for supremacy of, Amadeus (film), 176 152–64; harm principle and interferAmerican Economic Review, 205 ence with, 152, 161–63; Locke’s theory American Economics Association, 205 of natural law and, 159–61; of positive American Political Science Review, 182 and negative liberty, 167–68; unanimAmerican Voter (Fiorina), 60 ity problem as violating, 158; as value antitrust opinions: Brunswick Corp. v. to people for purpose, 153. See also libRiegel Textile, 142–43; Illinois v. F. E. erty Moran, Inc., 141; Jack Walters & Sons Corp. v. Morion Building, 143; Mar- Baker, J. H., 2 rese v. American Academy of Orthope- “balancing test” (U.S. Supreme Court), dic Surgeons, 141–42; Roland Machin- 131–32, 141 ery Co. v. Dresser Industries, 140–47, Barak, Ehud, 191 148–49; Standard Oil Co. v. United Bawn, Kathleen, 185, 186 States, 146 Becker, Gary, 90 Appalachian miners quiescence study: behaviorism: to consent, 28–31; decausal mechanisms for quiescence scribed, 4; flight from reality exempliidenti fied in, 44; examining Gaventa’s fied by, 9; linguistic, 34 conclusions in, 47–49; questions moti- Bellotti, First National Bank of Boston v., vating, 43; response of logical empiri- 134–35 cists and interpretivists to, 44–48; rival Bentham, Jeremy, 13, 26, 104, 174, 190, explanations for quiescence in, 46; 194 214 I N D E X Berlin, Isaiah, 152 67–71; Olson’s account of mass, 72– Bhaskar, Roy, 8 74; positive liberty as elevating parbias : of interpretive accounts of human ticipation in, 167–68; Taylor on moaction , 33–35; theory-ladenness, 15– tive force of, 71–72. See also voting 16, 19–20 behavior Blackmun, Justice, 132 Commentaries (Blackstone), 130 Blackstone, William, 1, 130 common good, 166, 168 Brennan, Justice, 134, 148Brown v. Board common law: consensual transactions of Education, 124 under, 26–27; difficulties with ecoBrown v. Socialist Workers ’74 Campaign nomic efficiency perspective of, 103–9; Committee, 135 economic fields of, 101; economic theBrunswick Corp. v. Riegel Textile, 142–43 ory and antitrust opinions under, Buchanan, James, 158 140–49; economic theory and labor Buckley v. Valeo, 133 law under, 137–40; evolving vernacuBurke , Edmund, 21 lar language of, 1–2; “micro hand” component of, 101–2, 123; Posner on Calabresi, Guido, 102, 121–22 sources of, 122–24; Posner’s view of Campbell, Angus, 92 federal, 121, 123; quasi, 123, 131, 140; cardinal utility, 161 understood in terms of economic effiCatherine de Medici, 35 ciency, 26–27, 101–3. See also federal causal mechanisms: four strategies to judicial system; judicial efficiency identify relevant, 43–44; producing communities: justice as being outside priconsent and explanations, 9; scientific vate, 165–66; limiting politicization realism presumption regarding, 8–9, of, 171 37–38, 47 Condorcet, Marquis de, 207 causation: difficulties in testing complex congressional politics, 58–63 interacting, 194; event-centered ontolCongressmen and Committees: The Elecogy on, 23; Gaventa’s study of quiestoral Connection (Fenno), 63, 64 cence and implications for, 42–49; Huconsent : causal mechanisms producing mean approach to, 28–31; modeling explanations and, 9; debate over ausocial phenomena and focus on facthenticity of, 21–22; empiricism and tors of, 68–69; scientific realism apbehavioral theories of, 28–31; hermeproach to, 40–41 neutics and interpretation of, 31–37; Challenger shuttle disaster (1986), 195 as linchpin of modern liberal tradiChong , Dennis, 65, 66, 74–78, 80, 81 tion, 21; logical empiricism and analyCivic Ideals (Smith), 199 sis of, 23–24; logicism and epiphenomCivil Rights Act (Title VII), 114, 120 enal theories of, 24–28; meaning of classical utilitarianism problem: devarious “consensual” acts, 32–33; sciscribed , 104–6; Posner on wealth-maxenti fic realism approach to, 37–38, imization solution to, 106–13 42–49. See also Appalachian miners Clayton Act, 143, 146 quiescence study Coase, Ronald, 105 consequentialist/anticonsequentialist dicogito (Descartes), 179 chotomy, 158 collective action: Chong defense of ratiocontextualism , 175, 177 nal choice theory on, 74...