Methods In Analytical Political Theory
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Author | : Adrian Blau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107098793 |
A guide to methods in analytical political theory, offering concrete advice and clear examples of good and bad practice.
Author | : David Leopold |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199230080 |
Political Theory: Methods and Approaches is one of the first books to analyze research methods in political theory and political philosophy. Drawing together a distinguished set of contributors, the book asks how political theory should be conducted today and examines the connections between political theory and a range of adjacent disciplines - including moral philosophy, the empirical social sciences, the history of political thought, the world of 'real' politics, critical social theory, and ideology.
Author | : David Austen-Smith |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472022466 |
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular on the extent to which any aggregation method is assured to yield a set of "best" alternatives. The book is intended both as a contribution to the theory of collective choice and a pedagogic tool. Austen-Smith and Banks have made the exposition both rigorous and accessible to people with some technical background (e.g., a course in multivariate calculus). The intended readership ranges from more technically-oriented graduate students and specialists to those students in economics and political science interested less in the technical aspects of the results than in the depth, scope, and importance of the theoretical advances in positive political theory. "This is a stunning book. Austen-Smith and Banks have a deep understanding of the material, and their text gives a powerfully unified and coherent perspective on a vast literature. The exposition is clear-eyed and efficient but never humdrum. Even those familiar with the subject will find trenchant remarks and fresh insights every few pages. Anyone with an interest in contemporary liberal democratic theory will want this book on the shelf." --Christopher Achen, University of Michigan David Austen-Smith is Professor of Political Science, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University. Jeffrey S. Banks is Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology.
Author | : Jason Glynos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2007-09-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134138350 |
This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.
Author | : John S Dryzek |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199548439 |
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.
Author | : Nolan McCarty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107438637 |
Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory, mechanism design and a mathematical appendix covering, logic, real analysis, calculus and probability theory. The methods employed have many applications in various disciplines including comparative politics, international relations and American politics. Political Game Theory is tailored to students without extensive backgrounds in mathematics, and traditional economics, however there are also many special sections that present technical material that will appeal to more advanced students. A large number of exercises are also provided to practice the skills and techniques discussed.
Author | : Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks of Political |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199286546 |
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from major international scholars The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology provides the key point of reference for anyone working throughout the discipline.
Author | : Hans Keman |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2016-12-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1784710822 |
This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research methods and applications currently in use in political science. It combines theory and methodology (qualitative and quantitative), and offers insights into the major approaches and their roots in the philosophy of scientific knowledge. Including a comprehensive discussion of the relevance of a host of digital data sources, plus the dos and don’ts of data collection in general, the book also explains how to use diverse research tools and highlights when and how to apply these techniques.
Author | : Gerald F Gaus |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1847871267 |
`This volume combines remarkable coverage and distinguished contributors. The inclusion of thematic, conceptual, and historical chapters will make it a valuable resource for scholars as well as students′ - Professor George Klosko, Department of Politics, University of Virginia This major new Handbook provides a definitive state-of-the-art review to political theory, past and present. It offers a complete guide to all the main areas and fields of political and philosophical inquiry today by the world′s leading theorists. The Handbook is divided into five parts which together serve to illustrate: - the diversity of political theorizing - the substantive theories that provide an over-aching analysis of the nature/or justification of the state and political life - the political theories that have been either formulated or resurgent in recent years - the current state of the central debates within contemporary political theory - the history of western political thought and its interpretations - traditions in political thought outside a western perspective. The Handbook of Political Theory marks a benchmark publication at the cutting edge of its field. It is essential reading for all students and academics of political theory and political philosophy around the world.
Author | : Scott Gehlbach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108482066 |
An accessible treatment of important formal models of domestic politics, fully updated and now including a chapter on nondemocracy.