[PDF] Foundation Of Political Science eBook

Author : Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300189753

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When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.

Author : Roger L Cohen
Publisher : Humanities Academic Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781988557632

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R. L. Cohen's Foundations of Political Science book is a textbook designed for university students in an entry-level political science class. Often students only engage minimal amounts of the assigned readings each term. The solution is the book's format that delivers basic political science foundational facts to students. This simple answer is a meaningful, efficient, and concise learning tool. Available with PowerPoints from the publisher for classroom management.

Author : Catherine E. De Vries
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0198831307

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Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach offers an accessible introduction to European politics using a coherent comparative and analytical framework. It presents students with the basic theoretical and empirical toolkit of social scientific researchers, and explains how ananalytic approach can be used to understand both domestic and EU-level policy-making in Europe.The book draws on cutting edge research from all areas of European politics - from national and EU institutions, to political behaviour and policy-making - and uses case studies and examples throughout to help students compare different electoral systems, parties and governments across Europe.The book is structured thematically in five parts, beginning with theoretical foundations; moving on to examine citizens and voters, elections and parties, governments and policy; and finally covering the rule of law, democracy and backsliding.Digital formats and resourcesFoundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.DT The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks http://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksDT Online resources for students include: multiple choice questions, web links, essay questions, and data descriptions and data exercises.DT Online resources for lecturers include: adaptable PowerPoint slides, test bank questions, figures and tables from the book.

Author : H.R.G. Greaves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000519511

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First published in 1958, The Foundations of Political Theory strives to answer essential questions of politics by studying its foundations. In this book, Mr. Greaves treats the state as only one among several associations whose function is to promote entirely human ends. He tries to reinterpret such ideas as ‘self-realization’ and the ‘good life’ in ways acceptable to students of contemporary philosophy, who reject the theological and metaphysical doctrines these ideas have been tied to in the past. He insists that men get their moral standards and their ideas about what makes life worth living by reflecting on their experience; that there are no ultimate and self-evident moral principles. While admitting that moral standards are subjective in the sense that we cannot explain how men come to have them except by showing how they serve their needs, he refuses to allow that rational argument about them is therefore impossible. Since men are rational, since they have purposes and ideals and not merely desires, and since they know that to realize these purposes they must live with others, there are moral standards acceptable to all men when their function is understood.

Author : R L Cohen
Publisher : Humanities Academic Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781988557816

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California Government and Politics: An Introductory Primer to California Government provides a basic understanding of the history and modern practice of California government and politics. This book stands as an independent resource for teaching California politics or a compliment to most introduction to political science classes at the university level.