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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Barbara Budrich Publishers
2012, 2012
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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