Introduction to Political Science



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Course Texts

W. Phillips Shively, Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. (Fourth Edition)

Thomas More, Utopia,

Niccolo Maciavelli, The Prince

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, W.W. Norton & Co., 1988 (Norton Critical Edition edited by Frederic L. Bender)



Week I

  • Chapter 1 Links
  • Chapter 10 Links

    Thomas More

  • Thomas More Links
  • The Trial of Sir Thomas More, 1535
  • Thomas More
  • Thomas More Page (Malaspina Great Books)
  • Thomas More Page (Oregon State U)
  • CGFA- Edward Matthew Ward: Sir Thomas More's Farewell to his Daughter WARNING! Large Graphic File
  • A Man for All Seasons (Internet Movie Database)
  • Utopia (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • St. Thomas More (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • St. Dunstan's Church (More's Church)
  • Utopia Bibliography (EMLS)
  • Thomas More Societies

    Week II

  • Chapter 3 Links
  • Chapter 7 Links

    Machiavelli


  • Political Morality? (Washington Post, 19 January 1999)
  • Machiavelli Online
  • Machiavelli
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527(The History Guide)
  • Machiavelli Page
  • Nicolo Machiavelli Western Canon University Lighthouse (Discussion Group?)
  • The Executive - An updated version of "The Prince"
  • Machiavelli and the Renaissance (A Course at Denison U)
  • Machiavelli Links (Wheaton C)
  • Machiavelli Notes (St. Thomas U)
  • The Portable Machiavelli (Darden School)
  • Machiavelli Quiz

    Week III

  • Chapter 2 Links
  • Web Active (replaces broken link in Ch. 2)
  • YAHOO: Political Theory Links
  • Marxist Internet Archive
  • Political Theory (The English Server)
  • Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
  • Journal of Political Ideologies
  • Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice

    Week IV

  • Chapter 4 Links
  • Concerned Vermonters for Equal Educational Opportunity
  • Act 60 What you should know
  • YAHOO: Public Policy Index
  • Policy.com
  • The Georgetown Public Policy Review
  • Institute for Policy Studies
  • Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (Michigan State U)
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • Washington State Institute for Public Policy

    Week 5 Midterm

    Week VI

    Marxism

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
  • The Marx/Engels Archive
  • Marxism Page
  • Marx and Engels' Writings
  • Cultural Logic: An electronic journal of Marxist theory and practice
  • Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future
  • Yahoo: Marxism links




    Week VII

  • Chapter 5 Links
  • Chapter 6 Links
  • Surviving the Bottom Line (PBS)
  • International Political Economy Network
  • Political Economy Bibliography
  • European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
  • Finance Net
  • OECD Development Assistance Committee
  • Issues in Political Economy
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • New Political Economy
  • Review of Political Economy
  • Review of International Political Economy

    Week VIII

  • Chapter 14 Links
  • Chapter 15 Links
  • British Politics Links (Carleton C)
  • The Paradoxical Case of Tony Blair (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1996)
  • Hansard
  • the New Deal

    Week IX

  • Chapter 17 Links

    Week X

  • Chapter 18 Links
  • Introduction to International Politics
  • Poly-Cy Guide International Politics
  • The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

    Week XI





  • Why did the chicken cross the road?

    Reference

  • The English Server: Political Theory
  • The English Server: Philosophy
  • Political Theory on the Internet

    Plato

  • Plato's Page
  • Plato
  • The Apology
  • The Cave Allegory
  • Last Days of Socrates - includes scenes from the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
  • The Republic

    Aristotle

  • Politics and Other Works
  • Aristotle's Page
  • Aristotle
  • Categories - written 350 B.C. Translated By E. M. Edghill.
  • Metaphysics - translated by W.D. Ross.
  • Nicomachean Ethics - written 350 B.C. Translated by W.D. Ross.
  • On Dreams - written 350 B.C. Translated by J.I. Beare.
  • Poetics - translated by S.H. Butcher.
  • Politics and Other Works

    Augustine

  • Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love
  • Augustine(University of Pennsylvania)
  • Saint Augustine's Page

    Aquinas

  • Summa Theologica
  • Aquinas Page

    Machiavelli

  • Machiavelli's Page
  • Machiavelli Online
  • Machiavelli

    Descartes

  • Discourse on Reason
  • Descartes' Page

    Hobbes

  • Leviathan(WARNING: Very Large File)
  • Hobbes Page

    Locke

  • A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION
  • AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
  • CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY
  • Locke's Page

    Hume

  • The Hume Archives
  • The Hume Society

    Rousseau

  • THE CONFESSIONS
  • Rousseau's Page

    Jefferson

  • The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
  • Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 1996)
  • The "Adam and Eve" letter From Thomas Jefferson to William Short
  • The "Blood of Patriots and Tyrants" letter From Thomas Jefferson to William Smith
  • An Excerpt of Query XIV from the Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)

    Burke

  • REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
  • Speech on conciliation with America
  • Burke's Page

    Kant

  • FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
  • Kant's Page

    Hegel

  • Hegel's Page

    Thoreau

  • Civil Disobedience
  • The Life of Henry David Thoreau
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • CyberSaunter-Henry David Thoreau

    Mill

  • REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
  • UTILITARIANISM
  • On Liberty
  • The Subjection of Women
  • J.S. Mill's Page

    Marx

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
  • Marx's Page

    Engels

  • Biographical Article on Frederick Engels by Lenin

    Marxism

  • Marx and Engels Online Library
  • The Marx/Engels Archive
  • Marxism Page
  • Marx and Engels' Writings
  • Index - Marxist Sites on the Web

    Lenin

  • Lenin Home Page
  • Lenin Internet Archive
  • The Marxism-Leninsm Project

    Mussolini


    Hitler

  • The Rise of Adolf Hitler

    Dewey


    Gandhi

  • Gandhi
  • MAHATMA GANDHI ASHRAM

    Modern Theory

  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Bertrand Russell Archives

    ttaylor@ctc.edu