Political theory & social change.
By: Edited with an introd. by David Spitz.
Contributors: Spitz, David, 1916- ed.; American Political Science Association.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atherton Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Political science; Social change -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Essays ... read at a series of panels ... at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in 1966."
Table of contents: title: Truth and politics, by H. Arendt.; title: Static and dynamic society, by P. Kecskemeti.; title: Political science and political rationality, by D. Kettler.; title: Changing conceptions of political legitimacy; abandonment of theocracy in the Islamic world, by G. Lewy.; title: Constitutionalism in the sixteenth century; the Protestant Monarchomachs, by J. H. Franklin.; title: Theories of terrorism and the classical tradition, by E. V. Walter.; title: Civil disobedience; prerequisite for democracy in mass society, by C. Bay.; title: The obligation to disobey, by M. Walzer.; title: Democractic theory: ontology and technology, by C. B. Macpherson.; title: Social order and human ends; some central issues in the modern problem, by M. Q. Sibley.; title: Corporate authority and democratic theory, by P. Bachrach.; title: Facing up to intellectual pluralism, by J. N. Shklar.