Transformational Politics Theory, Study, and Practice
Click on image to enlarge
Stephen Woolpert - Editor Christa Daryl Slaton - Editor Edward W. Schwerin - Editor
Price: $55.50 Hardcover - 298 pages
Release Date: August 1998
ISBN10: 0-7914-3945-3 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3945-6
Price: $31.95 Paperback - 298 pages
Release Date: August 1998
ISBN10: 0-7914-3946-1 ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3946-3
Available as a Google eBook for other eReaders and tablet devices. Click icon below...
Summary
Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics Awarded by the American Political Science Association's Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics 1999
Argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative value-based political science.
The discipline of political science has reached a crossroads. The frequency with which terms such as "post-liberal," "post-modern," "post-patriarchical," "post-materialist," and "post-structural" are used in contemporary political discourse testifies to the pervasive conviction that an era has ended. Similarly, phrases such as "new world order," "new paradigm," "new age," and "third wave" convey the widely-shared expectation that what lies ahead politically will be qualitatively unlike what has gone before. Transformational Politics argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative value-based political science that not only studies phenomena, but also uses knowledge to promote democracy, sustainability, and social conscience.
Part I of the book defines transformational political theory as an emerging paradigm and draws on a wide array of theories--empowerment, feminist, democratic, communitarian, chaos, quantum, conflict resolution, self-actualization. Part II examines how a transformational perspective guides the study of politics in both research and teaching. Part III offers guidance about how to practice the theory and apply the study with a concern for creating a better world.
"The information in this book is cutting edge scholarship. This is the first full-scale attempt to pull together the vision and perspectives of the Transformational Politics group into a coherent statement that can be shared among themselves and with other scholars. The book will be the reference document for this branch of study for some time." -- Lester W. Milbrath, State University of New York at Buffalo, Emeritus
"I am very enthusiastic about the work. As a teacher and a researcher, I found that the book provides rich teaching material and a wonderful synthesis of valuable resources." -- Richard Couto, University of Richmond
Stephen Woolpert is Professor of Government at Saint Mary's College of California; Christa Daryl Slaton is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master in Public Administration Program, Auburn University; and Edward W. Schwerin is Associate Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Florida Atlantic University-Davie.
Table of Contents
Preface: Paths to Transformational Politics
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Transformational Politics?
Christa Daryl Slaton, Stephen Woolpert, and Ed Schwerin
Part I. The Theory of Transformational Politics
1. An Overview of the Emerging Political Paradigm: A Web of Transformational Theories
Christa Daryl Slaton
2. A Theory for Transforming Political Science: The Truth Quest as a Paradigm for Politics
Louis Herman
3. A Theory for Transforming the Self: Moving Beyond the Nation-State
Manfred Halpern
4. A Theory for Transforming Political Community: Applying Chaos and Feminist Theory
Barbara Knight
5. The Theory of a Transformational Political Movement: Green Political Theory
Daniel Neal Graham
Part II. The Study of Transformational Politics
6. Transformational Research and Teaching: An Overview
Ed Schwerin
7. Transformational Research: A Groups Approach
Marla Brettschneider
8. The Study of Transformational Politics: Participant Observation and Objectivity
Betty Zisk
9. A Transformational Pedagogy: The Politics of Gender
Gale Harrison
10. Transformational Teaching: As if Students and Faculty Really Mattered
Jeff Fishel and Morley Segal
Part III. The Practice of Transformational Politics
11. The Practice of Transformational Politics: An Overview
Stephen Woolpert
12. Transforming Representative Democracy: Four Real-Life Experiments in Teledemocracy
Ted Becker
13. Transformational Political Leadership: Insights from the Example of Vaclav Havel
Robert J. Gilbert
14. Transforming Public Policy: Beyond Affirmative Action
Michael S. Cummings
15. Transformational Political Groups: The Political Psychology of the Green Movement
