Politics at the Edge

DIMITRIOS E. AKROVOULIS Teaching Assistant of Political Theory and Philosophy, Department of Politics, University of Kent, Canterbury SUSAN BAKER Senior Lecturer, European Social Research, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University ANDREW DOBSON Professor of Politics, Keele University MAHDI ELMANDJRA The Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Studies, University of Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco STEVEN FIELDING Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford DAVID GOLDBLATT Lecturer in Social Sciences, Open University TIM GRAY Professor of Political Thought and Head of the Department of Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne DAVID HELD Professor of Politics, Open University AGNES HELLER Hannah Arendt Chair of Political Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York RUSSELL HOLDEN Senior Lecturer, European Studies, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff ALAN HOOPER Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hertfordshire PETER LASSMAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham JOHN MAYNOR University of York ANTHONY McGREW Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics, University of Southampton JONATHAN PERRATON Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield BRUCE PILBEAM PhD Student, University of Sheffield ELLA RITCHIE Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, University of Newcastle upon Tyne CAMERON ROSS Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Dundee GRAHAM SMITH Lecturer in Politics, University of Southampton RICHARD SAKWA Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent, Canterbury JOOST VAN LOON Lecturer, Social and Cultural Theory, Nottingham Trent University ANDREW VINCENT Professor of Political Theory, University of Cardiff, Wales DARREN WALLIS Lecturer in Comparative Government, Nottingham Trent University

Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference. The major traditional strengths of British political science are well represented - with papers on parties, political theory and the history of political thought - but so too are less familiar areas such as the politics of Latin America and the politics of poststructuralism.Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference. This volume brings together nearly twenty of the liveliest, most thoughtful and original papers from some two hundred presented at the conference. The major traditional strengths of British political science are well represented - with papers on parties, political theory and the history of political thought - but so too are less familiar areas such as the politics of Latin America and the politics of poststructuralism. Distinguished contributors include Agnes Heller, David Held, Mahdi Elmandjra, Andrew Dobson, Andrew Vincent and Richard Sakwa.