Introducing the Ancient Debate: The Ideal versus the Real
The Dollhouse
Fiction as a Tool for Exploring Politics
Utopias in Fiction and Politics
Ideologies
What Is Politics?
What Is Political Science?
Why Government? Security, Anarchy, and Some Basic Group
Dynamics
A Model for the Emergence of Cooperation: Bobsville
Collective Action
Security
Power
Anarchy
The Context of Hierarchy
Alliances
Groups and Group Identities
Governing Society: We Know Who You Are
Leadership Benefits
The Panopticon
Collective Action, Revolution, and the Use of Force
Legitimacy and Government Control
Government’s Role in the Economy: The Offer You Can’t Refuse
The Tragedy of the Commons
Karl Marx--Student of Capitalism?
Socialism
The Yin and Yang of Capitalism and Socialism
Structures and Institutions: Get off your #$*%&#g Ass and Build
that #$*%&#g Bike
Structures or Institutions?
Human Nature and Political Institutions
The Reality of Political Institutions
Simgovernment
El Grande Loco Casa Blanca-The Executive (in Bad Spanish)
Oh Captain, My Captain
The Scorpion King on Grandpa’s Farm
Kings and Presidents
The Democratic Executive
The Confederacy of Dunces— The Legislative (Not in Bad Spanish)
A Dreary Discussion of Democratic Legislatures
Intermission
A Redundant Repetition of Our Theme
A Tired Attempt to Make it Interesting
A Dreary Bleakness in the Authoritarian Gloom
Brazil our Bureaucracy-Do we even need to Bother with the
Jokes?
Bureaucracy, It Goes To Eleven
So What Is A Bureaucracy?
There Be Flaws in Yonder Bureaucracy, Obviously
Courts and Law: Politics behind the Gavel
Law and Politics
The Functions of Courts
Trial Courts and Appellate Courts
Legal Systems
Jurisprudence
Types of Law
Constitutional Courts
Not Quite Right, but Still Good: The Democratic Ideal in Modern
Politics
Arrow’s Theorem
Democracy and the Liberal Ideal
An Economic Theory of Democracy
The Real versus the Ideal, Again
Media, Politics and Government: Talking Heads are Better than
None
Reality and Beyond
The Whole China Charade
Your New Brain and the Creation of Reality
News Media and Politics
A Vast Conspiracy?
Understanding the Distortions Is the Key
International Politics: Apocalypse Now and Then
Causes of War
Back To Anarchy
World War I Was Unpleasant
Realism and War
Challenging the Realist Paradigm
Chapter 13 was Confiscated for Your Protection
Political Culture: Sex & Agriculture, Getting Rucked Explains it
All
Political Culture
Applying Political Culture
The Lastest and Bestest Chapter
Douglas A. Van Belle is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at
Victoria University of Wellington. He is currently examining how
science fiction as thought experiment shapes the conceptual space
between science and society. Other areas of research include
simulations of international politics, rational choice and
revolutionary collective action, global media freedom, the social
nature of science and SETI, Palaeontology and scientific progress
in the Social Sciences, media’s influence on foreign aid
bureaucracies, international information flows and the necessary
conditions for the adoption of disaster risk reduction policies,
the role of science fiction in society, and the use of science
fiction to teach politics. His latest novel, A World Adrift,
is set in the skies of Venus, 800 years after it was first
colonized, and explores the human impact of the politics of extreme
resource scarcity.
Spurred on by the blatant discrimination inherent in the statement
"Trix are for Kids," at age 4 Ken Mash attempted to file a
class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rabbit and other animals
similarly situated. After three errors in one inning squashed his
dreams of playing for the Mets, his overactive justice complex led
him to pursue a career as a lawyer and politician. While earning
his B.A. in political science he discovered what those jobs were
really like. Thus, Ken′s next degree was in mixology. Eighteen
months later, his fiancée informed him that she was leaving town to
do graduate work and that she would go either with him or without
him. A couple of degrees later, he is currently a political science
professor at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he
is co-director of the honors program and the pre-law advisor. He
has delivered numerous papers and talks on American politics,
constitutional law, and civil liberties, and he is very active in
the faculty association. He currently resides in Nanticoke, PA,
with his wife and four children where he is now content in knowing
that his parents were mistaken when, as a child, they told him that
he was wasting his time watching T.V. and movies.
The slightly irreverent, humorous approach of the authors went over
well with my students; I appreciated the sophisticated yet
accessible treatment of the philosophical roots and theoretic
structure of the study of politics. It worked very well with my
approach to introducing political science; using the book with
films and current events facilitated dynamic and far-ranging
discussion
*Seán P. Duffy*
In all of my class lectures, I frequently mention films, books, and
TV shows that illustrate a point of political interest. When Van
Belle and Mash first released their delightful text, I found a book
to use whose ‘kindred spirit’ matched my approach. It is fun,
funny, informative, and most importantly, it serves up politics to
a generation of students who have been socialized by the
entertainment media
*Jim Radford*
As an instructor who struggles to animate students about the
importance politics in their daily lives, this text accomplishes
the almost impossible--it makes students smile and even laugh about
politics. The framing of political theory in such a way that
challenges students to think and to internalize ideas is a major
accomplishment. As a supplementary reader it enriches and brings
ideas to life while providing much needed substance to class
discussions
*Richard S. Gutierrez*
A Novel Approach to Politics is a must-use textbook for any
instructor who wishes to gain and maintain student interest in
political science. Van Belle and Mash make politics come alive with
their use of fictional stories and historical examples to
illustrate political concepts. Students constantly comment that
they find the A Novel Approach to Politics to be both engaging and
enjoyable to read. Often getting students to read a textbook is
like pulling teeth, with A Novel Approach to Politics, this is one
dentist visit that students actually enjoy
*Cyrus Hayat*
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