Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts
by Mauro Calise and Theodore J. Lowi
University of Chicago Press, 2010
Cloth: 978-0-226-09101-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-09102-0 | Electronic: 978-0-226-09100-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226091006.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYREVIEWSTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

REVIEWS

“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 reinvention of the dictionary.”

— Richard M. Valelly, Swarthmore College

“By confronting the pervasive failure to teach innovative work with concepts, Hyperpolitics makes a stunning contribution. Calise and Lowi broaden our horizon by creating a new map of conceptual structure that will enlighten scholars and students, challenging them to extend it.”

— David Collier, University of California, Berkeley

“When it takes two first-class authors fifteen years to produce a book, the book must be taken seriously. Hyperpolitics is a highly innovative and formidable instrument for handling and understanding concepts. I miss having had to miss it in my time.”—Giovanni Sartori, Columbia University

— Giovanni Sartori

“In Hyperpolitics, two esteemed political scientists combine a broad knowledge of the field and commitment to transparent, cumulative conceptual development with an elegant interface. The result is a work that is both simple to use for the novice and rich and sophisticated for the established scholar. Innovative and smart, Hyperpolitics will make a splendid contribution to conceptual development in comparative politics and to the training of students, as well.”—Edward Schatz, University of Toronto

— Edward Schatz

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Short Entries

Cross-Entries

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bringing Concepts Back In

The Dictionary

A User’s Guide

The Entries

Administration

Agenda

Authority

Autonomy

Bureaucracy

Charisma

Choice

Citizen

Civil Society

Class

Clientelism

Coalition

Community

Conflict

Consensus

Conservatism

Constitution

Contract

Corporation

Court

Decision

Democracy

Election

Elite

Equality

Federalism

Government

Group

Ideology

Institution

Interest.

Justice

Law

Leadership

Legislature

Legitimacy

Liberalism

Liberty

Lobbying

Majority

Market

Media

Monarchy

Movement

Nation

Oligarchy

Opinion

Order

Participation

Party

Patronage

Pluralism

Policy

Polling

Populism

Public

Representation

Revolution

Rights

Rules

Socialism

State

Terrorism

Trust

Violence

Welfare

Bibliography