Publications · 12 June 2013
An anthology of classic texts in political science has been published
The publication Political Science. An Anthology of Classic Texts has been released as part of the “Political Science” series published by the Political Sphere Institute.
Political Science. An Anthology of Classic Texts: Translated from English, French and German / Academic editor A. Kazakevich. Minsk–Vilnius, 2012. 354 pp.
The book will be of interest to students, doctoral candidates and teachers in the social and political sciences, as well as to everyone interested in the classics of political science.
The anthology can be obtained by writing to [email protected] or at the Lohvinaŭ bookstore (Minsk, 37a Independence Avenue).
We invite you to read the table of contents and selected texts from the book.
From the academic editor (pdf)
History and methods of the discipline
Gabriel Almond. Political Science: The History of the Discipline
David Easton. The Future of the Post-Behavioral Phase of Political Science
John Gunnell. Paradoxos Theoretikos
The idea of politics
Max Weber. Politics as a Vocation
Raymond Aron. On Politics
Seymour Martin Lipset. Political Man (excerpts) (pdf)
The idea and concepts of democracy
John Rawls. Justice as Fairness: Political, Not Metaphysical
Raymond Aron. On Totalitarianism
Robert Dahl. Polyarchal Democracy (excerpts)
Samuel Huntington. The Third Wave of Democratization (excerpts) (pdf)
World politics
Samuel Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations?
Francis Fukuyama. The End of History?
(Post-)modernization
Ronald Inglehart. Modernization and Postmodernization