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Title
Empowering citizens, engaging the public : political science for the 21st century / Rainer Eisfeld.
ISBN
9789811359286 (electronic book)
9811359288 (electronic book)
9789811359279 (paperback)
981135927X (paperback)
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 199 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-13-5928-6 doi
Call Number
JA66
Dewey Decimal Classification
320
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive study to respond to the ongoing debates on political sciences' fragmentation, doubtful relevance, and disconnect with the larger public. It explores the implications of the argument that political science ought to become more topic-driven, more relevant and more comprehensible for "lay" audiences. Consequences would include evolving a culture of public engagement, challenging tendencies toward liars' rule, and emphasizing the role of "large" themes in academic education and research, the latter being identified as those areas where severe democratic erosion is occurring - such as escalating income and wealth disparities pushing democracy towards plutocracy, ubiquitous change triggering insecurity and aggression, racist prejudice polarizing societies, and counter-terrorism strategies subverting civil liberties. Political science needs to address these pressing problems ahead of other issues by in-depth research and broadly accessible public narratives, including solution-orientated normative notions. This need provides the final justification for evolving a discipline where problems would take priority over methods and public relevance over sophisticated specialization
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from electronic title page (EbscoHost, viewed July 15, 2019).
Commitments. Improving the human condition ; What is the current human condition? ; Coming to grips with change ; Serving citizens ; The civics of friendly persuasion ; A determination to blow the whistle
Issue arenas. Affirming ethno-cultural diversity, avoiding tribalized segmentation ; Low income, inferior education ; Robust regulatory policies for capitalism ; Global warming, power structures, and living conditions ; Radicalization, terrorism, subversion of civil liberties
Partisanship. Twenty-first-century political science : politicization of a discipline?
