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Intro -- Titre -- Copyright -- About the book -- This eBook can be cited -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of acronyms -- Introduction. - Toward a More Eclectic, Pluralist and Cosmopolitan Political Science? (Ramona Coman / Jean-Frédéric Morin) -- 1. Politics, pluridisciplinarity and professionalization -- 1.1. Three challenges over the history of political science -- 1.2. Towards eclecticism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism? -- 2. Investigating scholarly journals -- 2.1. The benefits of exploring a discipline through its journals -- 2.2. Limitations in the study of scholarly journals -- 3. Content and orientation of this book -- Chapter 1. - 30 Years of West European Politics: And The Winner Is… (Clément Jadot) -- Introduction -- 1. Unlocking comparative politics through the use of keywords -- 2. Issues that count: West European Politics through the prism of content analysis -- 2.1. 1978-1987: WEP's positioning between the one and the many -- 2.2. 1988-1997: WEP's tardy look at the EU -- 2.3. 1998-2007: Forging ahead -- 2.4. 1978-2008: West European Politics, from "splendide isolement" to ongoing internationalization -- 3. From content to challenges: questioning the core values of European comparative politics -- 3.1. Political parties in the 21st century: old dogs, new tricks? -- 3.2. West European Politics opening up: one step at a time -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. - Assessing Party Research Decline: A View from the British Journal of Political Science (Caroline Close) -- Introduction -- 1. Data and methods -- 2. Assessing the decline in party research: a view from the British Journal of Political Science -- 2.1. General perspectives -- 2.2. The three faces of parties -- 3. Is party research in decline?.

Bimetallism.- Wages.- The argument against protective taxes.-Sociology.- Theory and practice of elections.- Presidential elections and civil service reform.- Our colleges before the country. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This volume looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration, and draws together articles from 2005 onwards on the theme of 'the interpretive turn' in political science.

The man of destiny.--The Waterloo campaign.--Goethe's position in practical politics.--The politics of "The Divina commedia."--Machiavelli's "Prince."--Dante's political allegory. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A surprising range of scholars return to the works of Aristotle as a source of fresh perspectives on their disciplines. Furthering that aim, an eclectic group of classicists and political scientists discusses the importance of Aristotle's political and ethical writings--for example, the Poetics, the Rhetoric, the Politics, and ethical and historical treatises--to contemporary approaches in political and social science. The collection examines underlying concepts such as production, race, class, and gender, as well as more traditional Aristotelian topics such as justice, monarchy and democracy, and the relationship between law and constitution. Emphasizing contemporary relevance and following Aristotle himself, this volume proceeds on the premise that the human sciences do not seek simply to increase knowledge but rather to benefit human life

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992

In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions, levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then introduces five paradigms of polit

David Hume is commonly known as one of the greatest philosophers to write in English. He was also one of the foremost political and economic theorists and one of the finest historians of the eighteenth century. His political essays reflect the entire range of his intellectual engagement with politics - as political philosophy, political observation and political history - and function as an extension of and supplement to works such as his Treatise of Human Nature and his History of England. The twenty-seven most important essays are presented in this fully annotated edition, together with excerpts from the History of England which illuminate their context. This major addition to the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, philosophy and the history of ideas

"With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel, It can't happen here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is the democratic freedom that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in America? [The editor] queried a number of the nation's leading thinkers. In this...collection of essays, these...thinkers and theorists explore the lessons of history, how democracies crumble, how propaganda works, and the role of the media, courts, elections, and 'fake news' in the modern political landscape--and what the future of the United States may hold."--