Tropes of Politics : Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre -- Part One: From Figures of Inquiry -- Chapter 1: Returning Pluralism to Political Science: A Programmatic Manifesto for Rhetoric of Political Inquiry -- Origins -- Purposes -- Politics -- Problematics -- Ends -- Chapter 2: Returning History to Political Science: A Disciplinary Archaeology of Amnesia in Political Argument -- Disciplines -- Presentations -- Histories -- Traditions -- Chapter 3: Turning Underground into Approved Rhetorics: A Partial Confession from a Scientizing Discipline -- Approved versus Underground Rhetorics -- Confession -- Propriety -- Decorum -- Chapter 4: Overturning Argument in Political Science: An Apostate Meditation on Disappointments of Political Theory -- Detachment -- Skepticism -- Reflection -- Recognition -- Ascension -- Reconstruction -- Chapter 5: Returning Argument to Political Inquiry: A Mythic Narration of Models, Statistics, and Other Tropes -- How Political Science Lost Its Arguments -- The Behavior Vanishes -- The Regression of Political Science -- How Rational Choice Theory Got Its Paradoxes -- Tropes, Traps, Tokens, and Detours -- Part Two: To Myths of Action -- Chapter 6: Turning Politics into Words: A Rhetorical Invention of Evidence and Argument -- Words, Words Everywhere, and Many a Meaning to each -- Not Just Data but Reality -- The Center Cannot Hold -- The Play's the Thing -- Chapter 7: Turning Ideologies into Myths: A Postmodern Essay in Political and Rhetorical Analysis -- Analogy -- Ethos -- Logos -- Pathos -- Mythos -- Example -- Chapter 8: Turning Governments Every Which Way but Loose: A Poetic Experiment in Politics and Communication -- Female Metaphors -- Mything Words -- Immersing Myths -- Measuring Humans -- Dueling Myths -- Strange Attractors.

Chapter 9: Turning Deliberations into Debates: A Dialogical Deconstruction of Senate Rituals of Comity -- Mis-Stake -- Myth-Take -- De-Liberation -- Oxy-Moron -- Right-You-All -- De-Bait -- Trad(e)-Ition -- Chapter 10: Turning Stands into Stances: A Figural Argument About Forms of Political Action -- Form and Content -- Principle and Compromise -- Thought and Action -- Making and Taking -- Being and Doing -- Fire and Rain -- Notes -- Index.

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