Conceptualizing Politics

Document Outline

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I What is politics?
  • 1 Politics and power
    • 1 A first definition of politics
    • 2 Power and political power
    • 3 Operating areas, instruments and modus operandi of political power
    • 4 Political power and the others
    • 5 Objections and consequences
    • 6 Politics and power, a fatal connection?
  • 2 The subjective side of politics: legitimacy, identity, obligation
    • 1 Legitimacy and legitimation
    • 2 Political identity
    • 3 Political obligation
  • Excursus 1: What is political philosophy?
• Part II How politics works
  • 3 Order, institutions, models
    • 1 What does order mean in politics?
    • 2 Rules, institutions and the regulation of fear
    • 3 Historic models of political order
  • 4 The state
    • 1 The state and sovereignty
    • 2 The rise of the modern state in Europe
    • 3 State and society
    • 4 State and nation
    • 5 The state and the law
    • 6 State and values
  • 5 Government and democracy
    • 1 Democracy one and two
    • 2 From representation to national democracy
    • 3 Democratic government
    • 4 How is democracy possible? Does it have alternatives?
    • 5 Democracy and capitalism
• Part III World politics and the future of politics
  • 6 The states: power, peace and war in anarchical society
    • 1 The anarchical international society
    • 2 War
    • 3 Restraints to war, or peace?
    • 4 The pacification of Europe
  • 7 The globalised world: a challenge to politics
    • Part I: Globalisation and global governance
      • 1 What is globalisation?
      • 2 Globalisation and politics
      • 3 Global governance?
    • Part II: Global/lethal challenges: politics after modernity
      • 4 The two present challenges
      • 5 What to do with future generations?
      • 6 Politics after modernity: another definition
      • 7 Global troubles for democracy
  • Excursus 2: Politics and death
• Part IV Ethics and politics
  • 8 Liberty, equality and rights
    • 1 Concepts of liberty
    • 2 Equality and egalitarianism
    • 3 Rights
    • 4 Rights: universal or not?
  • 9 Justice and solidarity
    • 1 Versions of justice
    • 2 Distributive justice
    • 3 Solidarity
  • 10 Ethics, philosophy and politics
    • 1 Ethics and politics
    • 2 Which ethics for politicians?
    • 3 For and against ideal theory
    • 4 Critical Theory
• Epilogue: what drives people to politics
• Index