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Political science : reflecting on concepts, demystifying legends /

Rainer Eisfeld's book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient "truths" of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narrativ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisfeld, Rainer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leverkusen Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • What Political Science May (Not) Achieve
  • Specialization and Teamwork: Current Challenges to the Discipline
  • Political Science and Transition to Democracy: The German Experience
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
  • The "Three Pillars of Hell": Hannah Arendt's Concept of Total Rule
  • Sources, Merits, Limits
  • Prospects of Pluralist Democracy in an Age of Economic Globalization and World-Wide Migration: A Tribute to Robert A. Dahl
  • Klaus von Beyme: The Political Scientist as Global Scholar and Public Intellectual
  • Two Profoundly Different Schools of Political Science
  • Political Science in Great Britain and Germany: The Roles of LSE und DHfP
  • From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers
  • Peenemünde: Challenging the Myth of Nonpolitical Technology
  • Peenemünde, the V-2 and the Exploitation of Slave Labor. A Study in Reactionary Modernism
  • The Peenemünde Legend: Origins, Perpetuation, Demise.