People And Power An Introduction To Politics Third Edition — Eddie J Girdner

Politics has many dimensions At one end of the spectrum is the politics of power and acquisition At the other end is the politics of vision One divides and the other unites There are rich sources from ancient times upon which to draw values and inspiration for a politics of vision The modern political era as been marked by a dialectic between power politics and the enlightenment ideals of classical liberalism and utopian socialism Liberal capitalism which went some distance in attempting to treat individuals equally as worth of respect and human dignty has largely succumbed to the spirit of selfish acquisitiveness of the market place in the 1990s The socialist experiment foundered on bureaucratic statism overcentralization and the denial of individual autonomy The 1990s finds the world ravaged by the politics of division The politics of vision seems sadly lacking İçindekiler The State and Political Thinking Power Freedom and the State Structures and Processes of the State The Political Economy of States and International Relations Contemporary Global Concerns Challenging Modernization