Politics: An Introduction to Modern Democratic Government - Couverture souple

Eagles, D Munroe; Holoman, Christopher; Johnston, Larry W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155111531X ISBN 13 : 9781551115313

Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Politics is a comprehensive and comparative introduction to the essential components of democratic politics. It familiarizes students with enduring themes and issues that have arisen over the roughly 2,000-year history of political research and provides foundations for more advanced study in the discipline. The empirical focus is on the institutions and processes associated with presidential and parliamentary variants of liberal democracy.
Following an introduction to some of the central concepts in political ysis and the evolution of political research over the centuries, Politics focuses on political ideas (political philosophy, ideologies, and political ture), institutions (constitutions, legislatures, and executives; their relationships in parliamentary and presidential systems; electoral and party systems; the bureaucracy; and the judiciary), and the international setting. One of the book's central themes is the relationship of contemporary political debates to more enduring traditions of political thought. Philosophical traditions are linked to the emergence and institutional functioning of liberal democracy, and, by vir of the comparative approach, appreciation of the immense variety of democratic political arrangements in different countries of the world is offered. Comments:
?A useful overw for students: broad in scope, clearly written, and always to the point.? - Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
" Politics is extremely thorough and well-researched; it covers the basics in exemplary detail. The inclusion of a discussion of political science as well as of political philosophy is partiarly welcome, as it helps ground the discussion of modern institutions and processes in the history of political thought." - Robert E. Kelly, University of the Pacific
Munroe Eagles is Professor of Political Science and Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Munroe Eagles is Professor of Political Science and Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His primary research interests are in the field of electoral and political geography, and in the politics of advanced industrial democracies. He has published numerous journal articles on these topics and is the author, with R. Kenneth Carty, of "Politics is Local: National Politics at the Grassroots "(Oxford University Press, 2005).

Christopher Holoman teaches political science at Hilbert College in Hamburg, New York. His research interests include international relations, political economy, and distributive justice.

Larry Johnston is the author of Ideologies: An Analytic and Conceptual Approach (1996) and Between Transcendence and Nihilism (1995). A legislative researcher in Toronto since 1998, he was an academic consultant to the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform in 2006. He has taught a variety of politics courses at the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and Ryerson University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155111531X
• ISBN 13: 9781551115313
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 492
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible