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Print Price: $100.99

Format:
Paperback
240 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199230099

Copyright Year:
2009

Imprint: OUP UK


Political Theory

Methods and Approaches

Edited by David Leopold and Marc Stears

Political Theory: Methods and Approaches is one of the first books to analyze research methods in political theory and political philosophy. Drawing together a distinguished set of contributors, the book asks how political theory should be conducted today and examines the connections between political theory and a range of adjacent disciplines - including moral philosophy, the empirical social sciences, the history of political thought, the world of 'real' politics, critical social theory, and ideology.

Readership : Students and scholars of political theory, political philosophy, and the history of political thought.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
David Leopold and Marc Stears: Introduction
1. Daniel McDermott: Analytical Political Philosophy
2. David Miller: Political Philosophy for Earthlings
3. Adam Swift: Political Theory, Social Science, and Real Politics
4. Iwao Hirose: Why be Formal?
5. Lois McNay: Recognition as Fact and Norm: The Method of Critique
6. David Leopold: Dialectical Approaches
7. Mark Philp: Political Theory and History
8. Sudhir Hazareesingh and Karma Nabulsi: Using Archival Sources to Theorise about Politics
9. Elizabeth Frazer: Political Theory and the Boundaries of Politics
10. Michael Freeden: Thinking Politically and Thinking about Politics: Language, Interpretation, and Ideology
Further Reading
Index

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Marc Stears is University Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow in Politics at University College, Oxford. He is the author of Progressives, Pluralists and the Problems of the State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), and of numerous articles in political theory, the history of political thought, and American political development. He is currently completing a book on radical democratic theory in the twentieth century United States entitled, Democracy's Demands: Deliberation, Agonism and the American Radical Tradition.
David Leopold teaches political theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and is a Fixed-Term Fellow in Politics at Mansfield College, Oxford. His recent publications include: The Young Karl Marx. German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); 'The State and I: Max Stirner's Anarchism', in Douglas Moggach (edited), The New Hegelians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp.176-199; and 'The Structure of Marx and Engels' Considered Account of Utopian Socialism', History of Political Thought, 26/3 (2005), pp.443-466. He is currently working on some issues raised by utopianism in both the history of political thought and contemporary political theory.

Contemporary Political Philosophy - Will Kymlicka
Ideologies and Political Theory - Michael Freeden
Ideologies and Political Theory - Michael Freeden
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese

Special Features

  • An engaging introduction to the key approaches to political theory.
  • Draws together a number of distinguished contributors with an international reputation in the field.
  • Accessibly written and broad-ranging.