Radical Approaches to Political Science

• Acknowledgments
• p. 7

• Introduction
• p. 9

• I
• Political Science Taking Sides - Why, How?
• p. 11

• How Political Science Might Regain Relevance and Obtain an Audience: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
• p. 13

• Towards Creating a Discipline With a "Regional Stamp": Central-East European Political Science and Ethno-Cultural Diversity
• p. 21

• Pluralism and Democratic Governance: A Century of Changing Research Frameworks
• p. 29

• Pluralism as a Critical Political Theory
• p. 53

• II
• Political Science and State Power
• p. 73

• Political Science in Central-East Europe and the Impact of Politics: Factors of Diversity, Forces of Convergence (with Leslie A. Pal)
• p. 75

• German Political Science at the Crossroads: The Ambivalent Response to the 1933 Nazi Seizure of Power
• p. 105

• III
• Political Science and Ideology (1) Germany's "Peculiar Course": Coming to Grips with Patterns of Anti-Democratic Thinking
• p. 141

• From Hegelianism to Neo-Pluralism: The Uneasy Relationship between Private and Public Interests in Germany
• p. 143

• 'Mitteleuropa' in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
• p. 155

• IV
• Political Science and Ideology (2) Another Peculiar Course: American 'Gun-Mindedness' - Some Origins and Consequences
• p. 167

• Myths and Realities of Frontier Violence: A Look at the Gunfighter Saga
• p. 169

• Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars
• p. 185

• V
• Political Science and Policy Transfer International Pressures and Domestic Politics during Portugal's Transition to Democracy
• p. 205

• Portugal and Western Europe: Shifting Involvements
• p. 207

• External Influences on the Portuguese Revolution: The Role of Western Europe
• p. 241

• Sources
• p. 261

• About the Author
• p. 263

• Index
• p. 265