Political Science : Theory and Perspectives Kris Chapman
- ISBN: 9781788823838
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2024
- List Price : 140
About the Book
Every age and every unilization confronts with different set of problems. Political science is the science and art of governance. Aim of this new venture on political science is to provide to our readers interesting, innovative and up to date material written by the national and international authorities on the subject, through the ages. As the title of the book suggests, this book is devised to reinterpret political science, its main elements, theories, practices, main fields and subfields, philosophy etc. exhaustively. The book is of utmost importance to students, teachers, scholars and general readers. Selection has been made with a view to providing wholistic picture on the various aspects of the subject and its developments up to the present times. Attempt is to provide to the students, teachers, and even the general reader the basics as well as the modern complenties of the developing national and international dimensions on the subject both in theory in practice
Contents: 1. Political Theory: An Overview, 2. State: Origins, Development and Modern Nation, 3. Sovereignty, 4. Power and Politics, 5. An Analysis of the Concept of Citizenship, 6. Democracy and Politics, 7. Rights: Meaning and Nature, 8. Liberty, 9. Freedom, 10. Equality, 11 .Justice, 12. Fieldsand Subfields of Political Science.
Kris Chapman is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Government and has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science. He is the author of several books, most recently Political Theory and the Modern State: Essays on State, Power, and Democracy, etc. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, transforming political discourse, reappraising political theory and empirical democratic theory. He is the author of more than 19 books and more than 56 journal essays and book chapters. Kris Chapman is a leading specialist in comparative politics with expertise on Europe. Currently, he is directing a new research on the impact of the economic crisis of the democracies.