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All academic disciplines periodically appraise their effectiveness, evaluating the progress of previous scholarship and judging which approaches are useful and which are not. Although no field could survive if it did nothing but appraise its progress, occasional appraisals are important and if done well can help advance the field. This book investigates how international relations theorists can better equip themselves to determine the state of scholarly work in their field. It takes as its starting point Imre Lakatos's influential theory of scientific change, and in particular his methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP). It uses MSRP to organize its analysis of major research programs over the last several decades and uses MSRP's criteria for theoretical progress to evaluate these programs. The contributors appraise the progress of institutional theory, varieties of realist and liberal theory, operational code analysis, and other research programs in international relations. Their analyses reveal the strengths and limits of Lakatosian criteria and the need for metatheoretical metrics for evaluating scientific progress.

International relations --- Methodology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest.

Trade regulation --- Markets --- Corporate governance --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "sustainability."

Environmental policy. --- Political science --- Philosophy. --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. This book argues that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks - that environmental communities 'narrate themselves into existence'. The book proposes the notion of the narrative-network, and introduces innovative tools to analyse the plots, characters, and events that inform environmental action.

Environmentalism. --- Environmental policy. --- Policy sciences. --- Social networks. --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved?Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war in contemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is good social order to be achieved? Traditionalists and conservatives, who tend to view human nature as inherently sinful, argue that good order must be imposed from above, by parental authority and ruling powers, by the forces of law and tradition, and, ultimately, by God. Counterculturalists and liberals, who tend to believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, claim that well-supported children will develop into well-ordered adults and that adults empowered to make their own choices will form a healthy, well-ordered society. These opposing visions underlie a host of current controversies, including philosophies of child-rearing and education, social and political policy, sexual morality, and the evolution-creation debate. By exposing the limitations of both points of view, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the culture war presents a challenge to all Americans. This challenge is to integrate the half-truths advanced by both sides into a higher wisdom, one that promises to take the American experiment--to see whether humans can enjoy both the blessings of liberty and the fruits of good order--to the next level of its evolution, toward which it has been straining for the better part of a century.

Social values --- United States --- Moral conditions. --- Social conditions --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General