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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Opladen Berlin [u.a.]
Budrich
2012
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1023369133/04 Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4058782&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage/2012/08/04/file_15/4610194.pdf 
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| Author Notes: | Rainer Eisfeld ; with an introduction by Klaus von Beyme |
Table of Contents:
- 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.Political science and state power. Political science in Central-East Europe and the impact of politics: factors of diversity, forces of convergence (with Leslie A. Pal) ; German political science at the crossroads: the ambivalent response to the 1933 Nazi seizure of power.
- 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 interests in Germany ; 'Mitteleuropa' in historical and contemporary perspective.
- 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.
- Political science and polity transfer international 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.