Political Analysis Contemporary Controversies,9780333750032

Political Analysis Contemporary Controversies

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ISBN13: 9780333750032
ISBN10: 0333750039
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Pub. Date: 2002-09-06
Publisher(s): SPRINGER - VERLAG
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis, University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
x
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
Analytical Perspectives, Analytical Controversies
1(58)
The scope and limits of political analysis
2(4)
Analytical perspectives, analytical choices, analytical controversies
6(1)
Mapping the political science mainstream
7(6)
Mapping the mainstream in international relations
13(14)
Analytical strategies in contemporary political science and international relations
27(2)
The parsimony versus complexity trade-off
29(8)
The role for and the nature of theory in political analysis
37(13)
Context and conduct: dealing with the `problem' of agency
50(4)
The structure of the book
54(5)
What's `Political' About Political Science?
59(30)
Ontology and epistemology: the `political question' and the `science' question
61(5)
Specifying and respecifying the political
66(3)
The nature of politics, the nature of the political
69(6)
Science, politics and ethics
75(6)
The retreat from positivism
81(5)
Conclusion: the limits of political science and the ethics of political analysis
86(3)
Beyond Structure versus Agency, Context versus Conduct
89(46)
What is - and what is not - at stake in the structure- agency debate?
90(3)
Conceptualising structure and agency
93(3)
Operationalising structure and agency: the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s
96(5)
Positions in the structure-agency debate
101(12)
The centrality of structure and agency to political explanation
113(2)
Beyond structure versus agency
115(20)
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change
135(33)
Time for change?
136(7)
Analytical strategies for conceptualising change
143(7)
Time, timing and temporality
150(13)
Conclusion: structural, agential and ideational factors in the analysis of political change
163(5)
Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualising Power
168(26)
The `faces of power' controversy
171(11)
Power: analytical and critical perspectives
182(5)
Foucault and the `microphysics of power'
187(7)
The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and Idealism
194(22)
The space for ideas in political analysis
195(2)
Constructivism in and beyond international relations theory
197(8)
The difference that ideas (can) make
205(4)
Structure, agency and ideas
209(4)
Conclusion: paradigms and paradigm shifts
213(3)
The Challenge of Postmodernism
216(35)
Modernism and postmodernism as aesthetic sensibilities
218(7)
Postmodernism as an intellectual sensibility
225(9)
The contribution of postmodernism to political analysis
234(5)
The postmodernist challenge to (critical) political analysis
239(6)
In defence of critical political analysis: resisting postmodernism's vow of silence
245(6)
Conclusion: Critical-Political-Analytical 251(10)
Empirical but not empiricist
252(1)
Structure and agency
253(3)
An inclusive and post-disciplinary conception of political analysis
256(1)
The causal and constitutive role of ideas
257(2)
The contingency of political processes
259(2)
Notes 261(12)
Bibliography 273(32)
Index 305

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