Anthony Arblaster

Preface The origins of this book go back more years than I care to remember. My original intention was to write a book about Cold War liberalism — at that time a more influential intellectual current than it is now. As will be seen, this makes up only a small ingredient in the present work. I...

Preface and Acknowledgements Lurking here and there in the backwoods of the social studies, or 'sciences', there are no doubt still a few old-fashioned positivists who beheve that you can 'keep politics out of polities'; who suppose, in other words, that you can, or should try to, write a book...