Edward Bryan Portis Ruth Lessl Shively Adolf G. Gundersen
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...
Political theorists typically define political action in terms of rational potential rather than conflict, and for this reason neglect the partisan na...
