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- ISBN 9780192853882
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 112 x 179mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century.
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Kenneth Minogue, formerly Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and author of a number of books, including he Liberal Mind (1961), Nationalsim (1967), and Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Idealogy (1985), as well as academic essays on a great range of problems in political theory.
