From foreign policy to environmental protection, from gender equality to the rule of law, politics is constructed by thinking. This book reflects a growing recognition of political thinking as a dimension, perhaps the single most important dimension, of the activity of politics in the contemporary world, and in all previous worlds as well.
About the Author
Rodney Barker is Reader in Government at the London School of Economics.
Features
Nine studies by leading political scientists of the intellectual dimension of political action, and the active dimension of political thinking
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From pluralism and tolerance to environmentalism and apartheid. How does political thinking mesh with political action?
