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Radical approaches to political science : roads less traveled /

"In this comprehensive volume, Rainer Eisfeld draws judicious lessons from his long-time involvement in international debated about what political science does - and what it should be able to achieve. Highlighting problems too rarely confronted by "mainstream" political scientists, th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisfeld, Rainer
Otros Autores: Beyme, Klaus von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Opladen ; Berlin ; Toronto : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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 ConvergenceGerman 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.