Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book. The approach outlined here remains significant today not only for its contribution to normative analysis, but also because it shows how political scientists can view their subject matter with a more profound understanding of the concepts they deal with in their work.
De Crespigny and Wertheimer selected fourteen essays on...
Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a ...