British Political Scientists - Thomas Hare, Keith Dowding, Michael Steed, Martin Wight, R. A. W. Rhodes, Alan Whaites, Mark Bevir, Samuel Finer, Arch (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Thomas Hare, Keith Dowding, Michael Steed, Martin Wight, R. A. W. Rhodes, Alan Whaites, Mark Bevir, Samuel Finer, Archie Brown, Pippa Norris, Paul Bew, Baron Bew, David Miller, Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Vernon Bogdanor, Basil Chubb, W. B. Gallie, Steve Smith, Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, Glenn Hook, Anthony King, Michael Freeden, Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman, Ivor Crewe, Roger Griffin, Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, David Runciman, Michael Keating, Andrew Gamble, Glen Rangwala, David Butler, Stanley Henig, Ernest Barker, Colin Thain, Colin Talbot, Edward Newman, Jim Bulpitt, Thomas Gerard Gallagher, Philip Cowley, Daniel Wincott, Matthew Goodwin, Colin Hay, Rupert Taylor, Mark Beeson, Jolyon Howorth, Patrick Dunleavy, Dominic Lieven, Albert Hanson, Christopher J. Hill, Stephen Barber, Raphael Tuck, Peter Burnham, Dennis Kavanagh, Toby Dodge, Gerry Stoker, Michael Taylor, David Marsh, David Judge, Nigel Knight, Herman Finer, Neil Carter, Anand Menon, Michael Hart, John Curtice, Murray Forsyth, Tim Bale. Excerpt: Keith Dowding (born 1960) is Professor of Political Science in Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published widely in the fields of public choice, public administration, public policy, British politics, comparative politics, urban political economy, positive political theory and normative political philosophy. His work is informed by social and rational choice theories. He has been one of the editors of The Journal of Theoretical Politics (Sage) since 1996. Dowding is best known for his work on 'power', applying insights from formal analysis to central debates on the nature of power and structure of power in society. Expanding on the concept of 'luck' (getting what you want without trying) he...