Introduction to Political Theory
Language: English
Pages: 542
ISBN: 1408285924
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Introduction to Political Theory is a text for the 21st century. It shows students why an understanding of theory is crucial to an understanding of issues and events in a rapidly shifting global political landscape. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, this new text introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped the modern world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate.
Introduction to Political Theory relates political ideas to political realities through effective use of examples and case studies making theory lively, contentious and relevant.
This updated third edition comes with significant revisions which reflect the latest questions facing political theory, such as the French burqa controversy, ethnic nationalism and the value of research from sociobiology. Accompanying these debates is a wealth of new and thought-provoking case studies for discussion, including (consensual) sadomasochism, affirmative action and same-sex marriage. A new chapter on difference has also been added to complement those on feminism and multiculturalism.
The revised glossary, revamped website for further reading and new streamlined layout make Introduction to Political Theory third edition the perfect accompaniment to undergraduate study.
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Concept which ‘many of us thought had been polished off a quarter of a century ago, has now risen from the grave to haunt us once again’ (1981: 303). What had brought the state back into political science? Easton noted: • the revival of interest in Marxism, which places the state at the heart of politics; • a conservative yearning for stability and authority; a rediscovery of the importance of the market so that the state is important as an institution to be avoided (see case study); • a study of.
Whether or not they reside there. MacCallum’s definition is useful, but it leaves open a couple of important issues. First, what is the source of (b)? Must it be another person (or persons) who constrains or restricts your action? Could the source of your unfreedom be yourself – that is, your own weaknesses 38 Part 1 Classical ideas and irrationality? Second, some things are trivial – is your freedom to watch inane daytime television as valuable as your freedom to study challenging poetry? The.
Bohrer. He also has a developing interest in sociobiological (Darwinian) approaches to politics. A Companion Website is available at www.routledge.com/cw/hoffman This is an outstandingly clear, accessible yet sophisticated introduction to political theory, primarily aimed at those new to the subject, but containing more than enough to engage and challenge even the most experienced politics undergraduate. The case studies – substantially updated since the second edition – highlight excellently.
(Hoffman, 1988: 135). Tocqueville might describe Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence (1787), as ‘the greatest democrat ever to spring from American democracy’ (1966: 249), but in fact Jefferson was a liberal who took the view that voters should be male farmers who owned property. The American political scientist Hofstadter has commented on how modern American folklore has anachronistically assumed that liberalism and democracy are identical (Hoffman, 1988: 136), and it has missed.
Century for political rights, were fond of 122 Part 1 Classical ideas saying that the vote is a knife and fork question: the demand for citizenship must be a demand for resources which make individuality not simply a condition to be protected, but a reality to be attained. J.S. Mill presents a developmental view of human nature when he argues that women and workers could become ‘individuals’. T.H. Green and Hobhouse, as social liberals, argue the case for more security for workers. T.H.