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基本説明
Prev. ed.: 2010.
Full Description
So often, political science is introduced to students as a segmented field. The Challenge of Politics instead enables students to see how the subfields converge around a set of crucial questions: can we, as citizens and students articulate and defend a view of the good political life and its guiding political values? Can we develop a science of politics to help us understand significant political phenomenauthe empirical realities of politics? Can we bring a high level of political prudence or wisdom to bear on judgments about politics and public issues? Can citizens and students creatively address the future of politics?Riemer, Simon, and Romance aim to harmonize the valuable lessons of classic and contemporary theory, as well as to reconcile politics to scientific and empirical study. The book gives students an avenue to explore the impact of philosophy and ideology, to recognize major forms of government, to evaluate empirical findings, and to understand how policy issues directly affect peopleAEs lives. Throughout, the authors look at political dynamics of American, comparative, and international affairs. While continuing to pursue its distinctive normative approach and showing politics to be a potentially humanizing enterprise, this new edition of Challenge has been revised and updated for major world events like the global financial crisis, recent elections in the U.S. and elsewhere, important policy decisions like the recent Supreme Court ruling in the U.S. on healthcare, and the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Based on reviewer feedback, it has also been substantially streamlined throughout.
Contents
IntroductionI. RULES OF THE GAME1. Games Politicians Play2. Politics and Choice3. Political Science: Components, Tasks, and Controversies4. The Physical, Social, and Cultural Environment of PoliticsII. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY5. The Quest for the Good Political Life6. Liberal Democracy7. Democratic Socialism and Communism: Ideologies of the Left8. Toward a General Understanding of Dictatorship and Authoritarian StatesIII. COMPARATIVE AND WORLD POLITICS9. The Political Values of Political Actors10. National Politics: Culture, Constitutions, Citizens11. National Politics: Governmental Actors12. International Politics and the Global CommunityIV. POLITICAL JUDGMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY13. War and Peace in the Modern Age14. The Battle on Behalf of Human Rights15. The Struggle for Economic Well-Being16. The Imperative of Ecological HealthConclusion
