Contemporary Political Theory - Hardcover

Andrew Shorten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137299150 ISBN 13: 9781137299154

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2015

Synopsis

This comprehensive and engaging new text introduces the key concepts, approaches and debates in contemporary political theory and shows how philosophical ideas can be applied to real-world politics. Fully up-to-date, each chapter summarizes recent developments in the field and provides an accessible overview of the main problems and positions.

About this title

Review:

[T]his revised proposal targets a clear readership, and presents its material in a way likely to be useful to students and lecturers. It covers a broad range of concepts and issues in political theory, and offers a clear and more comprehensive alternative to existing texts in this area. Particularly the book presents a more up-to-date and better-organized alternative to Kymlicka's Contemporary Political Philosophy, with a much greater focus on real-world problems. It has a greater range than the Farrelly Introduction , and more internal cohesion and consistency than McKinnon's Issues in Political Theory.' - Kathy Smits, University of Auckland, New Zealand

'[T]he proposed text as outlined would be quite a contribution to the field and [would] fill a void that currently exists. Furthermore, in thinking about how I would deploy such a text within a course syllabus, what I particularly like here is the pedagogical flexibility that such a textbook would offer... I'd be excited to teach with it.' - Robert Glover, University of Maine, USA

'This book promises to be up-to-date, inclusive and covering the field of political theory in a way that other books do not... There is room in the market for this book.' - Gary Browning, Oxford Brookes University, UK

About the Author:

Andrew Shorten is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1137299150
• ISBN 13: 9781137299154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360