UID:
edoccha_9959028574702883
Format:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-86649-536-6
Content:
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 ways of rethinking politics, stirring up the all too conventional ways of the discipline. "Klaus von Beyme, one of the most erudite members of our profession, in his introduction conclusively demonstrates the book's cross-disciplinary merits. I believe this valuable work will be a powerful boost to an international, comparatively informed, pluralist political science."
Content:
The collection is a very good example of old fashioned socio-historic research that will leave the reader with the good feeling of having learned something interesting and being able to make the connection between our hectic, new, super-modern, digital present and a past that remains relevant and informative if studied carefully and employed to contemporary challenges that often lie at the heart of international development.
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Radical Approaches to Political Science is a unique collection of essays which is of value not only to any political scientist sensitive to political phenomena and their developments, but also or perhaps primarily, to all those who in their academic work find room for methodological reflection with regards to the state of our discipline. It is this kind of awareness that affords us the avoidance of such pitfalls as excessive descriptiveness and aim at what Eisfeld propagates throughout the book: becoming critical thinkers. By doing so, we can master the science of democracy.
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Eisfeld's ambitious engagement with the subject matter casts light upon new and alternative approaches in terms of reshaping political science with 21st century relevance, the creation of a discipline with a heightened regional scope, and the adoption of flexible new frameworks that are of service to pluralism and the changing nature of democratic governance. Inherent within the chapters are chords of critical political theory, factors of diversity and convergence, private and public interest amid an environment of anti-democratic thought, ideological dimensions of violence within culture, frontier myth, as well as transitions toward democracy within the Western Europe sphere. As such, the volume features a rich blend of traditional practices and perceptions, radical interpretation, historical dynamism, societal conflict, and power relations that cut across conventional boundaries from being both interdisciplinary and anti-disciplinary in critical thought and expression.
Content:
This very comprehensive volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by mainstream political scientists.
Content:
"Klaus von Beyme, one of the most erudite members of our profession, in his introduction conclusively demonstrates the book's cross-disciplinary merits. I believe this valuable work will be a powerful boost to an international, comparatively informed, pluralist political science."
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8474-0028-2
Language:
English
