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  title info:
    title: Empowering Citizens, Engaging the Public
    sub title: Political Science for the 21st Century
  name:
    name part: Eisfeld, Rainer.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 199 p. online resource.
  abstract: "Eisfeld's analysis of political science and its limits offers a bold framework for reforming the discipline in this century. Eisfeld asks us to look at foundational issues of democracy in the broadest possible terms." -Dianne Pinderhughes, former APSA President, University of Notre Dame "Of major significance for the debate over 21st century political science, impressive in its intellectual scope." -Marian Sawer, former AAPSA President, Australian National University "An intellectual commitment to 'thinking big', and a bold vision of the social sciences' 'promise' - freeing citizens from feeling trapped through public engagement." -Matthew Flinders, former PSA President, University of Sheffield "A remarkable project, pulled off with a grace and balance that belie the complexity and controversy of the issues Eisfeld addresses." -Leslie A. Pal, former CPSA Board Member, Carleton University, Ottawa This book is the first comprehensive study to respond to the ongoing debates on political sciences's 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 justific…
  table of contents: 1. Improving the Human Condition -- 2. What Is the Current Human Condition? -- 3. Coming to Grips with Change -- 4. Serving Citizens -- 5. The Civics of Friendly Persuasion -- 6. A Determination to Blow the Whistle -- 7. Affirming Ethno-Cultural Diversity, Avoiding Tribalized Segmentation -- 8. Low Income, Inferior Education -- 9. Robust Regulatory Policies for Capitalism -- 10. Global Warming, Power Structures, and Living Conditions -- 11. Radicalization, Terrorism, Subversion of Civil Liberties -- 12. Twenty-First-Century Political Science: Politicization of a Discipline?
  note: by Rainer Eisfeld.
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Citizenship
  subject:
    topic: Social Philosophy
  classification: JC421-472.2
  classification: 321.8
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      title: Springer eBooks
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