Colin Hay Pořadí knih

Focusing on the concept of political legacies, this book seeks to clarify and operationalize the term for better understanding and research. It defines legacies as remnants of the past influencing the present, emphasizing their dual nature as causal and counter-factual claims. The authors advocate for a multi-dimensional approach to assess political legacies, addressing theoretical, analytical, and methodological issues. The discussion is enriched by examples from Thatcherism, illustrating how these concepts can be applied to existing literature.

In "Civic Capitalism," Colin Hay and Anthony Payne critique the Anglo-liberal growth model and propose a new framework for capitalism that prioritizes social, economic, and environmental sustainability. They advocate for a governance model where the state serves the people, promoting collective goods, equity, and social justice.

Blending an analysis of individual nation states, this book examines critical issues that confront them all, and addresses them comparatively. It takes account of both the national and transnational factors that affect and are affected by politics in Europe, like European integration and globalisation.

Broad-ranging in its coverage and truly international in scope, this major new text introduces all the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues in relation to globalization, new forms of governance, the changing public/private boundary, changes in the powers and capacities of states, and the differences between advanced liberal democratic and other states. Chapters have been specially commissioned to a common format and are written by an international cast of leading authorities.

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.