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An introduction politics (Record no. 28714)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780415226424 |
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| Classification number | 320 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Axford Barrie |
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| Title | An introduction politics |
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| Edition statement | 2nd |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 601p |
| Dimensions | xviii |
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| Price amount | Rs. 2,191 |
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| Formatted contents note | Contents:<br/>List of figures and tables;<br/>List of biographies;<br/>Notes on the authors;<br/>Preface;<br/>Acknowledgements;<br/>INTRODUCTION-<br/>Barrie Axford and Gary K. Browning;<br/><br/>Part 1-People and politics<br/>1. INDIVIDUALS: IS POLITICS REALLY<br/>ABOUT PEOPLE? Barrie Axford;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Three questions for analysis;<br/>Parts or wholes: should we study<br/>individuals or structures?;<br/>Forms of individualist analysis;<br/>Forms of functional and structural analysis;<br/>The modern individual;<br/>Individuals as utility maximisers: the<br/>myth of 'economic' man;<br/>Individualism in action; <br/>Individuals and rights; <br/>Individualism and collectivism; <br/>Beyond individualism and collectivism:<br/>the postmodern condition; <br/>Individuals and the capacity for<br/>meaningful political action;<br/>Conclusion.<br/><br/>2. POLITICAL SOCIALISATION-Ben Rosamond;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Political socialization;<br/>What is political socialisation for?;<br/>The processes of political socialization;<br/>When?;<br/>How? ;<br/>The importance of political socialization;<br/>What does political socialisation tell us about political science?;<br/>What does political socialisation tell us about politics?; <br/>What does political socialisation tell us about the political system?;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>3 POLITICAL CULTURE-Ben Rosamond;<br/>Introduction;<br/>The uses of political culture;<br/>The civic culture;<br/>Criticisms of The Civic Culture;<br/>An alternative approach: political culture and ideology;<br/>Subcultures;<br/>Culture and political identity;<br/>Three case studies of political culture;<br/>The rise and fall of the Asian Tigers': a cultural phenomenon?;<br/>The European Union: creating a new political culture;<br/>After 11 September 2001: a clash of civilisations?;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>4 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION-Barrie Axford;<br/>Introduction: what is political participation?;<br/>Who participates? Some individual and social correlates of political participation;<br/>Selected variables and political participation: a brief inventory;<br/>Social capital and political Participation;<br/>Why do some people participate in politics and others abstain?;<br/>Agency: political efficacy and trust;<br/>Structural explanations: the law, society and ideas;<br/>Immediate stimuli;<br/>Case study: electoral turnout and political participation;<br/>Conclusion: a crisis of political participation?;<br/><br/>5 DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATISATION-Richard Huggins;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Democracy in the contemporary context;<br/>Conceptualising democracy: the search for a definition; <br/>Origins of democracy; <br/>Representative democracy; <br/>Deliberative democracy;<br/>Direct democracy;<br/>Towards a minimal definition of democracy;<br/>Conceptualising democratisation:<br/>process and practice;<br/>Explaining democratization; <br/>The criticisms and limits of democracy and democratization; <br/>Feminist critiques of liberal democracy; <br/>Republican critiques of liberal democracy; <br/>Radical critiques of liberal democracy; <br/>Environmental critiques of liberal democracy; <br/>Futures of democracy and democratization; <br/>Globalisation and democracy; <br/>Digital democracy; <br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>Part 2-Politics and ideas;<br/>6 CONCEPTS AND ISSUES-Gary K. Browning;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Conceptual analysis;<br/>Freedom;<br/>The Rushdie case;<br/>Rights;<br/>Animal rights;<br/>Equality;<br/>Justice;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>7 POLITICAL THOUGHT-Gary K. Browning<br/>Introduction;<br/>Political thought; <br/>The history of political thought; <br/>The methodology of the history of political thought; <br/>The value of the history of political thought;<br/>Key political philosophers;<br/>Plato;<br/>Thomas Hobbes;<br/>John Locke; <br/>Jean-Jacques Rousseau; <br/>John Stuart Mill;<br/>Karl Marx;<br/>The limits of Western political thought;<br/>Women and political thought;<br/>Islam;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>8. POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES-Gary K. Browning;<br/>Introduction;<br/>The nature of political ideologies;<br/>Political ideology and history;<br/>Left and Right;<br/>Liberalism;<br/>The origins of liberalism;<br/>Liberalism in the twentieth century;<br/>Conservatism;<br/>The nature of conservatism;<br/>Styles of conservatism;<br/>The success of conservatism;<br/>Socialism;<br/>Forms of socialism;<br/>Socialism and its development;<br/>Fascism; <br/>The nature of fascism;<br/>The development of fascism;<br/>Fascism in Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy;<br/>Nationalism;<br/>The development of nationalism;<br/>Explanations of nationalism;<br/>Feminism;<br/>Liberal feminism;<br/>Socialist feminism;<br/>Radical feminism;<br/>Postmodern feminism<br/>Ecologism;<br/>Varieties of ecological standpoints on society, economy and politics;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>Part 3 The structures and processes of governance<br/>9 LOCAL GOVERNANCE: POLITICS BELOW THE NATION-STATE-Alan Grant;<br/>Introduction;<br/>The territorial distribution of power;<br/>Federalism;<br/>The requirements of federalism;<br/>Developments in federal governments;<br/>Conclusions on federalism;<br/>Local government and politics<br/>Constitutional and legal status;<br/>Structure and responsibilities;<br/>Internal organization;<br/>Central-local relations;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>10 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT-Richard Huggins;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Preliminary observations;<br/>Nations, nation-states and the state;<br/>Government and governance;<br/>Constitutions and constitutionalism;<br/>Executives, legislatures and judiciaries<br/>Executives 336 Legislatures;<br/>Unicameral or bicameral?;<br/>The judiciary;<br/>Parliamentary systems of government;<br/>Presidential executives;<br/>Other forms of government;<br/>Transnational governance and the European Union - a new model?<br/>The virtual machinery of government?;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>11. PARTIES, INTEREST GROUPS AND PUBLIC OPINION-Barrie Axford;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Political parties and party systems;<br/>Party systems;<br/>Party systems in established democracies;<br/>The organisation of parties;<br/>The functions of political parties;<br/>Are political parties in decline?;<br/>Interest groups;<br/>Parties and interest groups;<br/>What are interest groups?: Types of groups;<br/>Theories and models of interest group politics; <br/>The resources and tactics used by interest groups;<br/>The power of interest groups;<br/>Public opinion;<br/>What is public opinion?; <br/>Whose opinion is public opinion?;<br/>How is public opinion institutionalised and expressed?;<br/>The construction of public opinion;<br/>Elections and public opinion;<br/>Is public opinion fickle?;<br/>Conclusion; <br/><br/>12 POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE MEDIA-Richard Huggins;<br/>Introduction; <br/>What is political communication?; <br/>Contexts of political communication; <br/>The development of political communication; <br/>Newspapers;<br/>Radio; <br/>Television; <br/>Managing political communication: how do politicians communicate?; <br/>Politics in media cultures: a crisis for democracy?; <br/>The global media 435 New media and political activism; <br/>Conclusion; <br/><br/>13 THE POLICY PROCESS-John Turner Introduction; <br/>The study of policy; <br/>Policy in action: the foot-and-mouth crisis 2001 to 2002;<br/>Policy definition; <br/>Policy formulation; <br/>Policy implementation;<br/>Problem superseded and redefined;<br/>Policy outcomes;<br/>A model of policy-making: Easton's input—output model;<br/>The policy process and the state;<br/>Pluralist explanations; <br/>Neo-pluralist explanations;<br/>Corporatist explanations;<br/>Marxist explanations;<br/>Neo-liberal explanations; <br/>Theories of decision-making;<br/>Rationality and decision-making;<br/>Cost-benefit analysis;<br/>Modified rationality; <br/>Disjointed incrementalism;<br/>Innovation and mixed scanning; <br/>Organisational and bureaucratic models of decision-making;<br/>Ideology and decision-making;<br/>Implementation models of policy-making;<br/>Advocacy coalitions and negotiated orders; <br/>Policy communities and networks;<br/>Case study in the policy process: policy learning and the Brent Spar decision;<br/>Introduction;<br/>The initial policy decision;<br/>Widening the policy environment: a global dimension;<br/>The German connection<br/>The organisational context: the corporate culture at Shell<br/>The organisational context: Greenpeace and the politics of protest<br/>Crisis politics: policy in reverse<br/>Conclusions;<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>Part 4 Politics beyond the territorial state<br/>14 POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE ABOVE THE TERRITORIAL STATE<br/>Ben Rosamond Introduction;<br/>International politics 483 Thinking about International Relations;<br/>The end of international politics?;<br/>Breaking the mould of international politics?: The European Union;<br/>European integration;<br/>The origins of the European Union;<br/>Patterns of politics;<br/>European integration and the end of the nation-state?;<br/>Law and authority in world politics: the Pinochet case;<br/>War without states? After 11 September 2001<br/>Conclusion;<br/><br/>15 THE PROCESSES OF GLOBALISATION Barrie Axford <br/>Introduction; <br/>From beyond the nation-state to global politics? The concept of globalisation Globalisation as growing interconnectedness<br/>Global consciousness, or thinking globally 534 Global compression;<br/>Globalisation as relativisation and indigenization;<br/>The idea of a global system;<br/>The forces and features of globalization;<br/>The world economy and the new international division of labour;<br/>The world political order: global governance?;<br/>Global cultures;<br/>Vectors of globalization;<br/>The end of a world of territorial nation-states;<br/>A post-capitalist world economic order?;<br/>A global civil society?; <br/>The prospect of civilisational conflict;<br/>Global chaos?;<br/> Conclusion; <br/>Glossary; <br/>General bibliography; <br/>Index.<br/> |
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