{"id":67,"date":"2008-03-17T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/03\/17\/lawrence-jacobs-on\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:40:28","slug":"lawrence-jacobs-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/03\/17\/lawrence-jacobs-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Weber and Political Neophytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Minneapolis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/16690941.html\"><em>Star-Tribune<\/em><\/a>\u00a0op-ed\u00a0on political rookies seeking high offices, political scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhh.umn.edu\/people\/ljacobs\/\">Lawrence Jacobs<\/a> invokes\u00a0sociologist Max Weber&#8217;s (1919) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/moriyuki\/abukuma\/weber\/lecture\/politics_vocation.html\">Politics as a Vocation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"#000000\">The legendary German sociologist Max Weber explained that the &#8220;vocation of politics&#8221; requires an aptitude to engage in the &#8220;strong and slow boring of hard boards.&#8221; Successful apprenticeships in politics can instill a healthy skepticism about searching out quick fixes and simulating representation in place of genuine community engagement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The hard work of fashioning government policy in a process designed to invite conflict among divergent perspectives requires the skills of a specialized craft &#8212; the ability to search out compromises that achieve mutual gains, the patience to pursue gradual but meaningful progress, and sustained and strong bonds with constituents.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Minneapolis Star-Tribune\u00a0op-ed\u00a0on political rookies seeking high offices, political scientist Lawrence Jacobs invokes\u00a0sociologist Max Weber&#8217;s (1919) Politics as a Vocation: The legendary German sociologist Max Weber explained that the &#8220;vocation of politics&#8221; requires an aptitude to engage in the &#8220;strong and slow boring of hard boards.&#8221; Successful apprenticeships in politics can instill a healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39115,66],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-politics","tag-theory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}