Political Science

Micro-Politics Agency in a Postfeminist Era Patricia S. Mann 1994 Spring

Offers a radical alternative to feminist identity politics. According to Mann’s bold and original analysis, our political agency is prior to our sense of identity today. Micro-Politics provides a framework in which hierarchies of race, sex, class, as well as gender are figured as contested sites of struggle in our everyday lives.

Hegemony and Power On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli Benedetto Fontana 1993 Fall

Presents a comparative and textual exploration of Gramsci’s interpretation of Machiavelli’s political anlayses. This valuable contribution to our understanding of Gramsci includes a comparison of the major Machiavellian ideas such as the nature of political knowledge, the new principality, the concept of the people, and the relation between thought and action, to Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony, moral and intellectual reform, and the collective will.

Knowing Nukes The Politics and Culture of the Atom William Chaloupka 1992 Spring

Countering critics who charge that postmodern positions on language, authority, and power cannot inform effective political responses, this compelling analysis employs these same methods to examine antinuclear politics. Star Wars (the movie and the antimissile system), the Freeze movement, Reaganism, and “lifestyle” politics all receive new treatments.

Reading the Postmodern Polity Political Theory as Textual Practice Michael J. Shapiro 1991 Fall

Offers the first demonstration by a political theorist of how textuality is inherent to political practice.

Limits and Possibilities The Crisis of Yugoslav Socialism and State Socialist Systems Bogdan Denitch 1990 Fall

Tribune of the People The Minnesota Legislature and Its Leadership Royce Hanson 1990 Fall

The End of the Cold War European Unity, Socialism, and the Shift in Global Power Bogdan Denitch 1990 Spring

Status Bryan S. Turner 1989 Spring

Clarifies the concept of status from the thesis that economic, political, and cultural inequalities can only be understood from a conflict-sociology perspective.