Applying Political Theory
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Author | : Katherine Smits |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137426845 |
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Fully revised and extended, the new edition of this innovative and engaging textbook introduces the central elements of political theory from an applied perspective. Focusing on 12 high-profile contemporary social and political case studies, both domestic and global, this text shows how political theory illuminates and helps makes sense of important debates in public life. This is the perfect introduction for students interested in how political theory can be used to help us solve the political questions of our time, whether at a beginner's level, or building upon an introduction to theories and concepts. New to this Edition: - Draws on an even wider range of contemporary and historical political thinkers from different philosophical traditions - Updated to take recent important cases and controversies into account - Includes a new chapter which examines leaking classified information
Author | : Elisabeth Ellis |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271059869 |
Download Kant’s Political Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Past interpreters of Kant’s thought seldom viewed his writings on politics as having much importance, especially in comparison with his writings on ethics, which (along with his major works, such as the Critique of Pure Reason) received the lion’s share of attention. But in recent years a new generation of scholars has revived interest in what Kant had to say about politics. From a position of engagement with today’s most pressing questions, this volume of essays offers a comprehensive introduction to Kant’s often misunderstood political thought. Covering the full range of sources of Kant’s political theory—including not only the Doctrine of Right, the Critiques, and the political essays but also Kant’s lectures and minor writings—the volume’s distinguished contributors demonstrate that Kant’s philosophy offers compelling positions that continue to inspire the best thinking on politics today. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Michaele Ferguson, Louis-Philippe Hodgson, Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, Mika LaVaque-Manty, Onora O’Neill, Thomas W. Pogge, Arthur Ripstein, and Robert S. Taylor.
Author | : Adrian Blau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107098793 |
Download Methods in Analytical Political Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A guide to methods in analytical political theory, offering concrete advice and clear examples of good and bad practice.
Author | : John S Dryzek |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199548439 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.
Author | : Ian Shapiro |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674986756 |
Download Politics against Domination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution. “Shapiro’s insights are trenchant, especially with regards to the Citizens United decision, and his counsel on how the ‘status-quo bias’ in national political institutions favors the privileged. After more than a decade of imperial overreach, his restrained account of foreign policy should likewise find support.” —Scott A. Lucas, Los Angeles Review of Books “Shapiro has a brief and compelling section on the importance of hope in his first chapter. This book enacts and encourages hope, with its analytical clarity, deep engagement of complicated political issues that resist easy theorizing, and emphasis on the politically possible.” —Kathleen Tipler, Political Science Quarterly “Offers important insights for thinking about democracy’s prospects.” —Christopher Hobson, Perspectives on Politics
Author | : William James Booth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1994-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521434096 |
Download Politics and Rationality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rational choice approaches to the study of politics are of great and growing prominence in political science. There are an increasing number of collections devoted to the methods of rational choice theory and specialized monographs applying it to individual topics. The present volume is unique in that it is a collection of substantive applications of rational choice theory in three of the main fields of political inquiry: comparative politics, international relations and political theory. The essays gathered here represent work by many of the most outstanding scholars in the discipline showing how rational choice theory may be employed in the analysis of fundamental political questions.
Author | : Adam Swift |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745652379 |
Download Political Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Bringing political philosophy out of the ivory tower and within the reach of all, this book provides us with the tools to cut through the complexity of modern politics.
Author | : Raymond Geuss |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2024-06-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691258694 |
Download Philosophy and Real Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for change Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations. Philosophy and Real Politics both outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice.
Author | : Crispin Sartwell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801458005 |
Download Political Aesthetics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time, or even are inverted or redeployed with an entirely transformed effect. You cannot understand politics without understanding the aesthetics of politics, but you cannot understand aesthetics as politics. The point is precisely to show the concrete nodes at which two distinct discourses coincide or connive, come apart or coalesce."—from Political Aesthetics Juxtaposing and connecting the art of states and the art of art historians with vernacular or popular arts such as reggae and hip-hop, Crispin Sartwell examines the reach and claims of political aesthetics. Most analysts focus on politics as discursive systems, privileging text and reducing other forms of expression to the merely illustrative. He suggests that we need to take much more seriously the aesthetic environment of political thought and action.Sartwell argues that graphic style, music, and architecture are more than the propaganda arm of political systems; they are its constituents. A noted cultural critic, Sartwell brings together the disciplines of political science and political philosophy, philosophy of art and art history, in a new way, clarifying basic notions of aesthetics—beauty, sublimity, and representation—and applying them in a political context. A general argument about the fundamental importance of political aesthetics is interspersed with a group of stimulating case studies as disparate as Leni Riefenstahl's films and Black Nationalist aesthetics, the Dead Kennedys and Jeffersonian architecture.
Author | : Peter C. Ordeshook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000066541 |
Download A Political Theory Primer Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First published in 1992, A Political Theory Primer is designed as an introductory course for students in the application of game theory to modeling political processes. Examining those very phenomena that power political machineries--elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict--the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only training at the basic algebra level, the student who completes a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all the professional literature that makes use of game-theoretic analysis. Each chapter also contains suggestiosn for further reading for those students who want to broaden their learning and expertise.