What is Politics?: The Activity and its StudyISBN: 978-0-7456-3055-7
Hardcover
224 pages
September 2004, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Preface: Adrian Leftwich vii
The Contributors xi
1 Thinking Politically: On the politics of Politics 1
Adrian Leftwich
2 Politics is About Governing 23
B. Guy Peters
3 Politics and the Exercise of Force 41
Peter P. Nicholson
4 Marxism and Politics 53
Alex Callinicos
5 Politics as a Form of Rule: Politics, Citizenship and Democracy 67
Bernard Crick
6 Politics as Collective Choice 86
Albert Weale
7 The Political Approach to Human Behavior: People, Resources and Power 100
Adrian Leftwich
8 Politics Beyond Boundaries: A Feminist Perspective 119
Judith Squires
9 Political Philosophy and Politics 135
Adam Shift
10 Is there an Islamic Conception of Politics? 147
Salwa Ismail
11 Politics as Distorted Global Politics 166
Anthony McGrew
12 Politics as if Nature Mattered 182
Neil Carter
Index 196