The Future of Political Science 100 Perspectives [Paperback]

This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of authors from various parts of this sprawling and pluralistic discipline has each contributed a brief essay about a single novel or insufficiently appreciated idea on some aspect of political science. The one hundred essays are concise, no more than a few pages apiece, and informal. While the contributions are highly diverse, readers can find unexpected connections across the volume, tracing echoes as well as diametrically opposed points of view. This book offers compelling points of departure for everyone who is concerned about political science -- whether as a scholar, teacher, student, or interested reader.

Introduction  1. The United States: A Different Democracy, Arend Lijphart  2. Taking Portraits or Group Photos?, Russell Dalton  3. Why Political Theorists Should Think More Carefully About Leadership, Nannerl O. Keohane  4. The Leadership Gap, Mark A. Peterson  5. Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the Emergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience, Anton Kramberger, Ana Barbic and Katja Boh  6. Politicians are People, too, Philip Edward Jones 7 . Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History, Henry E. Brady  8. Representation as a Field of Study, Barry C. Burden  9. Political Science: What Should We Know?, David Butler  10. Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power, Jane Junn  11. Politics as Learning, Hugh Heclo  12. Rounding Up the Activists, Kent Jennings  13. The Troubling Persistence of Injustice, Michael L. Frazer  14. Making a Name for Oneself, Harvey Mansfield  15. Political Variation l£)