Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series)

An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the discipline’s development over the last six decades.Consisting of authoritative contributions from an array of eminent academics, the Encyclopedia highlights scholarship that is often overlooked by the political science discipline and explores the theories behind, and the goals of, the field. It delves deep into historical and conceptual dimensions and engages with a diverse variety of theoretical perspectives including Marxist, post-Marxist, post-modernist, feminist, ecologist, pluralist, anarchist and communist. Both stimulating and innovative, this timely Encyclopedia will be a fundamental resource for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of critical political science, international politics, international relations, politics and public policy, political economy, political theory and gender politics. Key Features: * * Critical perspectives on core debates * * Written in an engaging and reflective style * * Accessible explanations of central concepts * * Over 250 entries written by leading scholars and researchers * * International and interdisciplinary analysis of the field’s development Front Matter Copyright Contents Alphabetical list of entries Editors, editorial advisors and contributors Preface What is critical political science? PART I THEORY, METHOD, AND CRITIQUE 1. Critique of pluralism 2. Power structure analysis 3. Critique of positivism and the post-behavioral revolution 4. Critical theory 5. Ideology critique 6. Disciplinary history Section I: Marxism 7. Analytical Marxism 8. Black Marxism 9. Historical Marxism 10. Institutional Marxism 11. Latino politics and Marxism 12. Open Marxism 13. Quantitative Marxism 14. Structural Marxism 15. Structural-functional Marxism 16. Systems-analytic Marxism Section II: Theories of the State 17. What is the state? 18. Marxist theories of the state I 19. Marxist theories of the state II 20. Transnational state 21. Feminist theory and the state 22. Theories of imperialism and empire 23. World-systems analysis 24. Critical political economy 25. Global studies 26. Critical border studies 27. Critical pedagogy 28. Critical university studies 29. Critique of intellectuals 30. Critical legal studies 31. Feminist critiques of political science 32. Critical race theory 33. Latinx politics 34. Ecology and environmental theory 35. Intersectionality 36. Social movements analysis 37. Autoethnography 38. Genealogy 39. Thorstein Veblen’s critical social theory 40. Critical media studies 41. Critical film studies 42. Literary criticism I 43. Literary criticism II 44. Science fiction 45. Art 46. Music PART II CRITICAL JOURNALS 47. Capitalism, nature, socialism 48. Critical Sociology 49. democracy 50. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 51. International Feminist Journal of Politics 52. Monthly Review 53. New Political Science: a journal of politics & culture 54. Review of Radical Political Economics 55. Science & Society 56. Signs: journal of women in culture and society 57. Socialism and Democracy 58. Socialist Register 59. Socialist revolution/review 60. Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture, and Politics 61. Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review PART III CONCEPTS 62. Academic repression 63. Alienation 64. Anarchism 65. Antifascism 66. Capitalist class 67. Class 68. Colonialism 69. Commodity fetishism 70. Communism 71. Community self-defense 72. Contradiction 73. Corporate liberalism 74. Corporate power 75. Council communism Section I: Crises of Capitalism 76. Economic crisis 77. Fiscal crisis 78. Legitimation crisis 79. Motivation crisis 80. Rationality crisis 81. Cultural imperialism Section II: Debt 82. Private debt 83. Public debt 84. Student debt Section III: Democracy 85. Deliberative democracy 86. Digital democracy 87. Economic democracy 88. Participatory democracy 89. Populist democracy 90. Radical democracy 91. Dependency theory 92. Direct action 93. Diversity of tactics 94. Domination 95. Dual power 96. Environmental justice 97. Ethnicity 98. Exploitation 99. Financialization 100. Gender 101. General strike 102. Hegemony 103. Ideology 104. Immigration 105. Indigenous movements 106. Inequality 107. Internal colonialism 108. Investment theory of party competition 109. Lumpenproletariat 110. Marriage equality 111. Mass strike 112. Migration 113. Mode of production 114. Mutual aid 115. Nation and nationalism 116. Neo-colonialism 117. Objectification 118. Petit bourgeoisie 119. Policy-planning organizations 120. Postcolonialism 121. Post-Marxism 122. Postmodernism 123. Poststructuralism 124. Poverty 125. Proletariat 126. Racialization 127. Reification 128. Ruling class 129. Socialism 130. Surplus value 131. Syndicalism 132. Vanguard PART IV PEOPLE 133. Althusser, Louis 134. Amin, Samir 135. Anderson, Perry 136. Aronowitz, Stanley 137. Ashcraft, Richard E. 138. Baran, Paul 139. Barber, Benjamin 140. Barrow, Clyde W. 141. Bay, Christian 142. Berg, John 143. Block, Fred 144. Boggs, Carl 145. Bookchin, Murray 146. Bronner, Stephen Eric 147. Carver, Terrell 148. Castells, Manuel 149. Chomsky, Noam 150. Cleaver, Harry 151. Cloward, Richard A. 152. Connolly, William E. 153. Davis, Angela Y. 154. Debord, Guy 155. Deleuze, Gilles 156. Domhoff, G. William 157. Du Bois, W.E.B. 158. Ehrenberg, John 159. Eisenstein, Zillah 160. Enloe, Cynthia 161. Frantz, Fanon 162. Federici, Silvia 163. Ferguson, Kathy E. 164. Foucault, Michel 165. Fraser, Nancy 166. Freire, Paulo 167. Galbraith, John Kenneth 168. Garvey, Marcus 169. Gindin, Sam 170. Gorz, André 171. Gouldner, Alvin 172. Grant, Judith 173. Green, Philip 174. Guattari, Félix 175. Habermas, Jürgen 176. Hall, Stuart 177. Harrington, Michael 178. Hartsock, Nancy C.M. 179. Harvey, David 180. Hawkesworth, Mary 181. hooks, bell 182. Jacoby, Russell 183. Jameson, Fredric 184. Jessop, Bob 185. Katsiaficas, George 186. Kesselman, Mark 187. Kolko, Gabriel 188. Laclau, Ernesto 189. Lefebvre, Henri 190. Love, Nancy S. 191. Luke, Timothy W. 192. Lustig, R. Jeffrey 193. Lyotard, Jean-François 194. Macdonald, Bradley J. 195. MacKinnon, Catharine A. 196. Macpherson, C.B. 197. Magdoff, Harry 198. Marcuse, Herbert 199. McConnell, Grant 200. McCoy, Charles A. 201. Miliband, Ralph 202. Mills, C. Wright 203. Mills, Charles W. 204. Mouffe, Chantal 205. Newton, Huey P. 206. Nkrumah, Kwame 207. O’Connor, James 208. Ollman, Bertell 209. Olson, Laura Katz 210. Panitch, Leo V. 211. Parenti, Michael 212. Pateman, Carole 213. Peschek, Joseph G. 214. Petchesky, Rosalind 215. Peterson, V. Spike 216. Petras, James 217. Piven, Frances Fox 218. Polanyi, Karl 219. Poulantzas, Nicos 220. Reed, Jr., Adolph L. 221. Reinaga, Fausto 222. Rensenbrink, John 223. Robinson, Cedric J. 224. Robinson, William I. 225. Roelofs, H. Mark 226. Roelofs, Joan 227. Sarkees, Meredith Reid 228. Schram, Sanford 229. Sedghi, Hamideh 230. Singer, J. David 231. Skinner, Quentin 232. Snyder-Hall, Claire 233. Steger, Manfred 234. Surkin, Marvin 235. Sweezy, Paul M. 236. Therborn, Göran 237. Torres, Rodolfo D. 238. Ture, Kwame 239. Wallerstein, Immanuel 240. Wallis, Victor 241. West, Cornel 242. Williams, Raymond 243. Williams, William Appleman 244. Wolin, Sheldon 245. Wright, Erik Olin 246. Young, Iris Marion 247. Zeitlin, Maurice 248. Zinn, Howard Index An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the discipline’s development over the last six decades. Consisting of authoritative contributions from an array of eminent academics, the Encyclopedia highlights scholarship that is often overlooked by the political science discipline and explores the theories behind, and the goals of, the field. It delves deep into historical and conceptual dimensions and engages with a diverse variety of theoretical perspectives including Marxist, post-Marxist, post-modernist, feminist, ecologist, pluralist, anarchist and communist. Both stimulating and innovative, this timely Encyclopedia will be a fundamental resource for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of critical political science, international politics, international relations, politics and public policy, political economy, political theory and gender politics. Key Features: Critical perspectives on core debates Written in an engaging and reflective style Accessible explanations of central concepts Over 250 entries written by leading scholars and researchers International and interdisciplinary analysis of the field’s development