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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968685303321

Titolo

Political theory and partisan politics / / editors, Edward Bryan Portis, Adolf G. Gundersen, Ruth Lessl Shively

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

9780791492574

0791492575

9780585419510

0585419515

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues

Altri autori (Persone)

GundersenAdolf G. <1958->

PortisEdward Bryan

ShivelyRuth Lessl

Disciplina

324.7/01

Soggetti

Political science

Politics, Practical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Political Theory and the Constitutional Foundations of Partisan Politics -- Political Theorists on the Legitimacy of Partisan Politics -- Political Theory and Constitutional Construction -- Constitutional Doctrine and Political Theory -- Theoretical Deliberation and Partisan Politics -- Rationality in Liberal Politics -- Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Partisan Politics: Between Athens and Philadelphia -- Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics -- Political Theory as Politics -- Secularism, Partisanship and the Ambiguity of Justice -- Political Theory and the Postmodern Politics of Ambiguity -- Political Theory as Metapractice -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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