Political analysis

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Political analysis

Colin Hay

(Political analysis)

Palgrave, 2002

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

Other Title

Political analysis : a critical introduction

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Bibliography: p. 273-304

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

Table of Contents

Analytical Perspectives, Analytical Controversies.- What's Political about Political Science?.- Beyond Structure versus Agency: Context versus Conduct.- Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change.- Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualising Power.- The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and Idealism.- The Challenge of Postmodernism.- Conclusion: Critical-Political-Analytical.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA56824659
  • ISBN
    • 0333750020
    • 0333750039
  • LCCN
    2000220889
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 314 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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