Political Theory and Partisan Politics
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Political Theory and Partisan Politics

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Political Theory and Partisan Politics

About this book

Renowned theorists address the interconnections between those who engage in political struggle and those who study it.

Political theorists typically define political action in terms of rational potential rather than conflict, and for this reason neglect the partisan nature of political experience. This volume redresses this neglect, focusing on the interrelated questions of whether the task of political theory is to find some means of containing partisan politics and whether political theory is itself separate from partisan politics. Each section of the book corresponds to one of three ways of conceiving the optimal or necessary relationship between political theory and partisan political struggle. The first section considers the extent to which partisan politics requires constitutional consensus and the degree to which such a consensus requires correct theoretical underpinnings. The second focuses on the compatibility of theoretical deliberation with partisan politics, and the third on the possibility that political theory is itself necessarily a form or means of partisan engagement. The end result is a theoretically diverse but focused debate on this important but neglected subject.

Contributors include William E. Connolly, Mary G. Dietz, Adolf G. Gundersen, John G. Gunnell, Donald S. Lutz, Edward Bryan Portis, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Ruth Lessl Shively, and Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.

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Table of contents

  1. POLITICAL THEORY AND PARTISAN POLITICS
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. PART I: Political Theory and the Constitutional Foundations of Partisan Politics
  6. 1. Political Theorists on the Legitimacy of Partisan Politics
  7. 2. Political Theory andConstitutional Construction
  8. 3. Constitutional Doctrineand Political Theory
  9. PART II: Theoretical Deliberation and Partisan Politics
  10. 4. Rationality in Liberal Politics
  11. 5. Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Partisan Politics: Between Athens and Philadelphia
  12. 6. Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics
  13. PART III: Political Theory as Politics
  14. 7. Secularism, Partisanship and the Ambiguity of Justice
  15. 8. Political Theory and the Postmodern Politics of Ambiguity
  16. 9. Political Theory as Metapractice
  17. EPILOGUE
  18. CONTRIBUTORS
  19. INDEX