Böcker av Mark Bevir

"This Element denaturalizes political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself. The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in shifting political contexts. Political science arose in the late nineteenth century as part of a wider modernism that replaced earlier developmental narratives with more formal explanations. It changed as some scholars yoked together behavioural topics, quantitative techniques, and positivist theory, and as other scholars rejected their doing so. Subfields such as international relations remained semi-detached and focussed on policy as much as theory. Furthermore, the shifting fashions within political science - modernism, behaviouralism, realism, neoliberalism, the new institutionalism - have informed the policies by which governments have tried to tame contingency and govern people"--

This book offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government.

An illuminative study of the most powerful political movement in Britain today, Bevir presents new critiques and radical alternatives to New Labour. Examining it as an institution, this is an interpretive study of social sciences.

Clear, student-friendly introduction to the technical concepts and policies of contemporay governance.

Provides a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science; compares their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis; and more. This book is useful to those in political theory, public policy, British politics, and British history.