HOMO POLITICUS, AVAGY EGY POLITIKAI CSELEKVÉS- ÉS MOTIVÁCIÓELMÉLET VÁZLATA
HOMO POLITICUS, OR AN OUTLINE OF A THEORY OF POLITICAL ACTION AND MOTIVATION

Summary/Abstract: The paper intends to draft an anthropology for political studies. It is striking that while political science relies extensively on the behavioural models of economics (this is the model of the rational, self-interested actor), sociology (the model of norm-abidance and conformity), or even psychology (an actor motivated by her emotions, neurosis, etc.), it has not developed an anthropology for its own purposes. Does this mean that political action has no proper motivational basis as such? The paper argues that this is not the case. In fact, there is a model implicitly present in political science. This is the actor following the common good, along the lines of collective rationality. The paper aims at making the fi rst steps towards elaborating the theoretical and empirical foundations for such a model.

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