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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Tradition and Innovation: On the Tension between Ancient and Modern Ways in the Study of Politics -- 1 : The Condition of American Political Science -- 2 : The Impact on Political Science of the Revolution in the Behavioral Sciences -- 3 : The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest -- 4 : What Is Political Philosophy? The Problem of Political Philosophy -- 5 : Politics and Pseudopolitics: A Critical Evaluation of Some Behavioral Literature -- 6 : "Behavioristic" Tendencies in American Political Science -- Index

This set describes a broad range of approaches that challenge scientism for its lack of sensitivity to meanings, subjectivity and historical context. It brings together a selection of writings that encompass theory and methods as well as policy and practice

"This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-colonial era. The contributors examine the role and nature of traditional governance institutions in West Africa from pre-colonial times to the post-colonial era. Part one considers a range of traditional institutions including monarchies, Islamic institutions and the role of culture and arts such as masking and music in traditional leadership. Part two focuses on modern governance institutions, elites, political action, arts, and democracy in post-colonial Nigeria. Part three examines democratic institutions and processes in Nigeria's Fourth Republic, covering issues such as electoral reform, women's political participation, and democratic citizenship. This book will be of interested to students and scholars of African politics, governance and democratization"--

This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state-society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life. It does so by exploring specific configurations of governance practices, development activities and discourses, and bureaucratic representations that are rooted in the ongoing contingencies of power relations and social contexts. The book places the lives, subjectivities, and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women, traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state functionaries, and NGO workers in two rural localities in different regions of Ethiopia at the centre of ethnographic enquiry. The book offers a rich and compelling ethnographic account while making distinctive theoretical contributions to the analysis of the state in Africa. It foregrounds the Ethiopian experience as an important component of the politics of everyday life in Africa, at the same time as making important linkages between Ethiopia and politics in the rest of the continent that are often overlooked in Ethiopia-specific studies. Providing an invaluable insight into the workings of the state in Ethiopia, it will be of interest to scholars of state, society, development, governance, and African politics.

Empirical evidence shows the flaws in the 'linear model' of economic growth ‐ in which government funds pure science which leads to applied science and enhanced economic growth. Adam Smith's model ‐ in which academic science flows out of applied science ‐ is nearer the mark. Governent funding of science cannot be justified on economic grounds and indeed tends to crowd out private funding.