| Description |
1 online resource (129 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- What Political Science May (Not) Achieve -- Specialization and Teamwork: Current Challenges to the Discipline -- Political Science and Transition to Democracy: The German Experience -- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants -- The "Three Pillars of Hell": Hannah Arendt's Concept of Total Rule -- Sources, Merits, Limits -- Prospects of Pluralist Democracy in an Age of Economic Globalization and World-Wide Migration: A Tribute to Robert A. Dahl -- Klaus von Beyme: The Political Scientist as Global Scholar and Public Intellectual -- Two Profoundly Different Schools of Political Science -- Political Science in Great Britain and Germany: The Roles of LSE und DHfP -- From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers -- Peenemünde: Challenging the Myth of Nonpolitical Technology -- Peenemünde, the V-2 and the Exploitation of Slave Labor. A Study in Reactionary Modernism -- The Peenemünde Legend: Origins, Perpetuation, Demise. |
| Summary |
Rainer Eisfeld's book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient "truths" of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narratives, its chapters encourage reflection of the discipline's history and state of the art. A companion volume to the 2012 book entitled Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (also published by Barbara Budrich), this collection is likewise based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eisfeld, Rainer. Political science : reflecting on concepts, demystifying legends. Leverkusen Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2016 3847405063 9783847405061 |
| ISBN |
9783847409281 (electronic book) |
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384740928X (electronic book) |
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9783847405061 |
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3847405063 |
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