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Hyperpolitics

An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Hyperpolitics

An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Fifteen years in the making, Hyperpolitics is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers—and especially students—can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.

International in scope, Hyperpolitics draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas into an innovative teaching aid. Its companion open access website (www.hyperpolitics.net) has already been widely acknowledged in the fields of education and political science and will continue to serve as a formidable hub for the book’s audience. Much more than a dictionary and enhanced by dynamic graphics, Hyperpolitics introduces an ingenious means of understanding complicated concepts that will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.

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272 pages | 7 x 10 | © 2010

Political Science: Political and Social Theory

Reviews

“All of this is wonderful, exciting, imaginative, and generous. Hyperpolitics is a great service to many disciplines, not just political science. As an intellectual history of political science, this book is unequalled. This is a pioneering reinvention of the dictionary.”

Richard M. Valelly, Swarthmore College

“By confronting the pervasive failure to teach innovative work with concepts, Hyperpolitics makes a stunning contribution. Calise and Lowi broaden our horizon by creating a new map of conceptual structure that will enlighten scholars and students, challenging them to extend it.”

David Collier, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgment

 

Introduction

Bringing Concepts Back In

The Dictionary

A User’s Guide

The Entries

Main Entries

Administration

Agenda.

Authority

Bureaucracy

Citizen

Constitution

Corporation

Interest

Justice

Law

Legislature

Liberalism

Liberty

Opinion

Party

Pluralism

Policy

Welfare

Short Entries

Charisma

Choice

Clientelism

Coalition

Conservatism

Election

Federalism

Government

Legitimacy

Majority

Media

Movement

Participation

Populism

Socialism

Terrorism

Violence

Cross-Entries

Autonomy

Civil Society

Class

Community

Conflict

Consensus

Contract

Court

Decision

Democracy

Elite

Equality

Group

Ideology

Institution

Leadership

Lobbying

Market

Monarchy

Nation

Oligarchy

Order

Patronage

Polling

Public

Regulation

Representation

Revolution

Rights

Rules

State

Trust

Bibliography

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