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Political analysis
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave
2002
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| Series: | Political analysis
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Analytical Perspectives, Analytical Controversies
- The scope and limits of political analysis
- Analytical perspectives, analytical choices, analytical controversies
- Mapping the political science mainstream
- Mapping the mainstream in international relations
- Analytical strategies in contemporary political science and international relations
- The parsimony versus complexity trade-off
- The role for and the nature of theory in political analysis
- Context and conduct: dealing with the 'problem' of agency
- The structure of the book
- 2 What's 'Political' About Political Science?
- Ontology and epistemology: the 'political question' and the 'science' question
- Specifying and respecifying the political
- The nature of politics, the nature of the political
- Science, politics and ethics
- The retreat from positivism
- Conclusion the limits of political science and the ethics of political analysis
- 3 Beyond Structure versus Agency, Context versus Conduct
- What is - and what is not - at stake in the structure- agency debate?
- Conceptualising structure and agency
- Operationalising structure and agency: the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s
- Positions in the structure-agency debate
- The centrality of structure and agency to political explanation
- Beyond structure versus agency
- 4 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change
- Time for change?
- Analytical strategies for conceptualising change
- Time, timing and temporality
- Conclusion: structural, agential and ideational factors in the analysis of political change
- 5 Divided by a Common Language?
- Conceptualising Power
- The 'faces of power' controversy
- Power: analytical and critical perspectives
- Foucault and the 'microphysics of power'
- 6 The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary
- Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and Idealism
- The space for ideas in political analysis
- Constructivism in and beyond international relations theory
- The difference that ideas (can) make
- Structure, agency and ideas
- Conclusion: paradigms and paradigm shifts
- 7 The Challenge of Postmodernism
- Modernism and postmodernism as aesthetic sensibilities
- Postmodernism as an intellectual sensibility
- The contribution of postmodernism to political analysis
- The postmodernist challenge to (critical) political analysis
- In defence of critical political analysis: resisting postmodernism's vow of silence
- Conclusion: Critical-Political-Analytical
- Empirical but not empiricist
- Structure and agency
- An inclusive and post-disciplinary conception of political analysis
- The causal and constitutive role of ideas
- The contingency of political processes.