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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Images; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: What Does Democracy Look Like?; PART I: Mapping the Political Turn; 2 Composition's Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness; 3 "Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela Davis; 4 Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times; 5 A Pedagogy for the Political Turn; PART II: Variations on the Political Turn

Why do we use the terms "left" and "right" to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently there is something inside us that connects these bodily terms to politics. This book is the first to discover that "something".Political use of the terms "left" and "right" originated in the French Estates General on the 7th of May 1789, two days after its grandiose opening session, in a simple ad hoc measure for a short event that afternoon. However, this measure embodied the unforeseen emergence of the political left/right dichotomy. Its continual developments are discussed here, with examples not only from politics, but also from everyday life, anthropology, genetic engineering, a novel by Turgenev, ingenious experiments with volunteers, and much more. But above all, the dichotomy is enshrined in unconscious urges deep within us--as illustrated 2,400 years ago by Sophocles in his tragedy Antigone.

Abstract Although left‐right scales are an inherent feature of much cross‐national research, they have necessarily been created on a somewhat ad hoc basis, since the empirical foundation for valid cross‐national scales rarely exists. This paper seeks to provide such a foundation by using judgements of party ideological position which are both explicit and non‐idiosyncratic across a wide range of countries. These judgements derive from a so‐called 'expert' survey of leading political scientists in Western Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. It is our hope that the scales which we derive in this way may prove useful in a wide variety of contexts of comparative research.

Nomination:'Some expert judgments ' live on by Mogens N. Pedersen, p.147 Reflections: Revisiting expert judgements by Peter Mair & Francis G. Castles, p.150