Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled

This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by "mainstream" political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eisfeld, Rainer Dr (Autor)
Otros Autores: von Beyme, Klaus Prof. em. Dr (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 2012
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Klaus von Beyme
  • Part I. Political Science Taking Sides - Why, How?
  • How Political Science Might Regain Relevance. And Obtain an Audience: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
  • Towards Creating a Discipline With a "Regional Stamp": Central-East European Political Science and Ethno-Cultural Diversity
  • Pluralism and Democratic Governance: A Century of Changing Research Frameworks
  • Pluralism as a Critical Political Theory
  • Part II. Political Science and State Power
  • Political Science in Central-East Europe and the Impact of Politics: Factors of Diversity, Forces of Convergence
  • German Political Science at the Crossroads: The Ambivalent Response to the 1933 Nazi Seizure of Power
  • Part III. Political Science and Ideology (1). Germany's "Peculiar Course": Coming to Grips with Patterns of Anti-Democratic Thinking
  • From Hegelianism to Neo-pluralism: The Uneasy Relationship between Private and Public Interest in Germany
  • Mitteleuropa in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
  • Part IV. Political Science and Ideology (2). Another Peculiar Course: American "Gun-Mindedness" - Some Origins and Consequences
  • Myths and Realities of Frontier Violence:A Look at the Gunfighter Saga
  • Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars
  • Part V. Political Science and Policy Transfer. Foreign Pressures and Domestic Politics During Portugal's Transition to Democracy
  • Portugal and Western Europe: Shifting Involvements
  • External Influences on the Portuguese Revolution: The Role of Western Europe
  • Sources
  • About the author
  • Index.