This text embraces a comparative approach with a balance of theory and practical examples. Updated to reflect the current global condition, the book is aimed at lecturers who like to use a core main text and supplement it with readers, handouts, and other classroom activities.
The fifth edition continues with an eclectic approach that avoids selling any single theory, conceptual framework, or paradigm as the key to political science. Attempts to impose a methodological grand design are both unwarranted by the nature of the discipline and unconducive to the broadening of students in- tellectual horizons Instructors with a wide variety of viewpoints should have no trou…
This book is in a way the final chapter of my D.Phil. thesis on pragmatism and truth, which was submitted at Oxford University over a decade ago. I had intended then to say something about moral judgement, but David Wiggins, who supervised that thesis, showed me just how far I had to go before I got anything close to right enough.
Presenting humanistic, ethical approach to the study of government, The Great Issues of Politics clarifies the fundamentals of politics in terms of five universal issues, each offering a choice that remains constant over time. The first issue deals with the reciprocal rights and duties of members of the state; the second, with the scope of governmental functions; the third, with the birthplace…
In Who are we? author Samuel Huntington turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at home, says Huntington, and already patriotic fervour has begun to subside. The United States was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct cultur…
This book contains an explanation of politics and the key to understanding politics. Tells what really happens from the moment you register to selecting a candidate that can influence your life.
This classic introduction provides an analysis and description of democracy, political behavior, political evaluation, policy-making, and comparative political systems. Power and influence, pivotal features of the book, are depicted through concrete illustrations of people in power from the relatively powerless to the most powerful. Thus, the reader is invited to enter imaginatively into the ex…
This volume contains an inquiry into the principles which lie behind the existence and action of National Society and the National State. It is divided into six books.
To do political theory is to tell a story about human beings and their communities. In this elegant book, Michael Brint provides a brilliant reading of some of the greatest stories told in the history of Western political theory. The unifying theme is the issue of differences and the conflicts they generate. Against ironists, deconstructionists, and all the others, Brint urges that ethical diff…
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.