{"id":15522,"date":"2012-06-27T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.budrich-academic.de\/produkt\/radical-approaches-to-political-science-roads-less-traveled\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:52:54","slug":"radical-approaches-to-political-science-roads-less-traveled","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/en\/produkt\/radical-approaches-to-political-science-roads-less-traveled\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Open Access: <\/strong><\/em><em>The book <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9783866495364.pdf\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (DOI: 10.3224\/84740028)<\/a><\/em><em> \u00a0is an <strong>Open Access<\/strong> title which is <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9783866495364.pdf\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">free to download<\/a><\/em><em> as PDF \u00a0or can be bought as paperback. The book is licensed under<\/em> <em>Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by \u201cmainstream\u201d political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new ways of rethinking politics, stirring up the all too conventional ways of the discipline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0\u201cKlaus von Beyme, one of the most erudite members of our profession, in his introduction conclusively demonstrates the book\u2019s crossdisciplinary merits. I believe this valuable work will be a powerful boost to an international, comparatively informed, pluralist political science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Theodore J. Lowi (Cornell University), former President, International Political Science Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.budrich-academic.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/shop-inhalt\/9783847400288_iv.pdf\">Inhaltsverzeichnis ansehen<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>The author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Rainer Eisfeld, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Professor emeritus of Political Science at Osnabr\u00fcck University, Germany. He taught at UCLA as a Visiting Professor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Target groups: <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Undergraduates, postgraduates, and post-docs in political science, radical politics, sociology, area studies, critical geography<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Keywords: <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Politics, radical politics, non-mainstream political science<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject area: <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Politics, Political Science, critical geography, area studies<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Access: The book Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (DOI: 10.3224\/84740028) \u00a0is an Open Access title which is free to download as PDF \u00a0or can be bought as paperback. 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