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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Political Science in an Age of Acknowledged Interdependence -- Acknowledging interdependence -- Interdependence and inter-disciplinarity -- Spatial interdependence and the problem of sub-disciplinary specialism -- Conclusion -- 1 Policy-Making in an Interdependent World -- Introduction: interdependence old and new -- Spatial interdependence: discursive construction and democratic statecraft -- Institutional interdependence: government, governance and complexity -- Policy interdependence: specialization, tacit knowledge and catastrophic risk -- Interdependence, statecraft and rhetoric -- 2 The Rise of Political Disenchantment -- Reflecting on the rise of anti-politics -- The decline in Britain's civic culture -- Explaining the rise of disenchantment -- A new political science of design -- Conclusion -- 3 The Internet in Political Science -- The challenge -- The current state of our understanding in political science -- Recent developments and current trends -- How will - or should - political science develop? Challenges and opportunities -- Political knowledge: what is it rational to 'know'? -- Voting: reversing turnout decline? -- Reconfiguring 'The Logic of Collective Action' and the ecology of interest groups -- Leadership: the end of charisma and co-ordination? -- Political parties: the end of membership? -- Government-citizen interactions: bringing citizens closer to government? -- Public management reform: from Weber to new public management to digital-era governance -- Political equality -- Illusions of interdependence -- Methodological challenges for political science -- Conclusion -- 4 The New Politics of Equality -- Introduction -- 'Old' politics of equality -- The 'new' politics of equality -- Conclusion.

Vol. 2: 2d ed., thoroughly rev. ; Vol. 1, published with title, A history of political parties in the United States, has imprint: Athens, Ohio, Ohio pub. Co. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The Western tradition of a sovereign state, which roots go back to antiquity, inherited a centre vouching for virtuous moderation. This book compares this tradition with what it quintessentially objects to: political extremes.

"In this ground-breaking book, Steven Forde argues that John Locke's devotion to modern science deeply shaped his moral and political philosophy. Beginning with an account of the classical approach to natural and moral philosophy, and of the medieval scholasticism that took these forward into early modernity, Forde explores why the modern scientific project of Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Robert Boyle and others required the rejection of the classical approach. Locke fully subscribed to this rejection, and took it upon himself to provide a foundation for a compatible morality and politics. Forde shows that Locke's theory of moral "mixed modes" owes much to Pufendorf, and is tailored to accommodate science. The theory requires a divine legislator, which in turn makes natural law the foundation of morality, rather than individual natural right. Forde shows the ways that Locke's approach modified his individualism, and colored his philosophy of property, politics, and education"--