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ISBN 10: 0226091023 ISBN 13: 9780226091020

Casa editrice: University Of Chicago Press, 2010

Fifteen years in the making, Hyperpolitics is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars, its purpose is to provide its readers with fresh critical insights about what informs these political concepts, as well as a method by which readers—and especially students—can unpack and reconstruct them on their own.

International in scope, Hyperpolitics draws upon a global vocabulary in order to turn complex ideas into an innovative teaching aid. Its companion open access website (www.hyperpolitics.net) has already been widely acknowledged in the fields of education and political science and will continue to serve as a formidable hub for the book’s audience. Much more than a dictionary and enhanced by dynamic graphics, Hyperpolitics introduces an ingenious means of understanding complicated concepts that will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.

About the Author:

Mauro Calise is professor of political science at the University of Naples Federico II. The author of several books (www.maurocalise.it), he is also the president of the Italian Political Science Association and director of the IPSA Web Portal for Electronic Sources. Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University. A former president of the American Political Science Association and of the International Political Science Association, he is the author of The End of Liberalism.

Review:

"All of this is wonderful, exciting, imaginative, and generous. Hyperpolitics is a great service to many disciplines, not just political science. As an intellectual history of political science, this book is unequalled. This is a pioneering revinvention of the dictionary." - Richard M. Valelly, Swarthmore College"