The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science

Opis

The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science. The book concentrates on the crucial Aristotelian concept of politeia, trying to show how its understanding has evolved for years, often towards fallacious interpretations. The text also points out how reconstruction of the original meaning of the concept can help in creating the frames for modern political science to avoid the traps of ethnocentrism and methodological reductionism that appear in most of today?s models used by the political science and by the theories of the political systems. In the last 20 years interest in Aristotle?s works has increased, resulting in reconsideration of their problems, especially of Aristotelian politica