Terence Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terence Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terence |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
Now in its twelfth edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the book's tradition of offering a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world. The text outlines a framework defining each ideology in terms of the four functions ideologies performs — explanation, evaluation, orientation, and political program — allowing students to compare, contrast, and analyz…
Ideals and Ideologies
A Vision for Black Lives
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager armed with nothing more than a bag of candy, was killed by a “neighborhood watch coordinator” while returning to the home where he was staying in a gated Florida community. In the wake of the killer's acquittal and the deaths of numerous African Americans while in police custody, Black Lives Matter was born. It has since grown into a powerful international movement focused on issues of racism and social j…
Ideology and Ideologies
Ideals and Ideologies
Ideology and Ideologies
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide variety of political ideologies from the traditional liberalism and conservatism to recent developments in liberation politics, the emergence of the Alt…
Was There a Berkeley School of Political Theory
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels—The Communist Manifesto
A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.1
Ideals and Ideologies
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes and compares political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide variety of political ideologies from the traditional liberalism and conservatism to recent developments in identity politics, green politic…
The Higher Illiteracy
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, 9/e, thoroughly analyzes and compares political ideologies to help readers understand these ideologies as acutely as a political scientist does. Used alone or with its companion Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 9/e, this best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills
Lincoln
Ratification
Political Theory and Political Science
The too-often unhappy 'marriage' of political theory and political science has long been a source of anguish for both partners. Should this troubled partnership be dissolved? Or might this marriage yet be saved? Ball answers the former question negatively and the latter affirmatively. Playing the part of therapist instead of theorist, he selectively recounts a number of episodes which estranged the partners and strained the marriage. And yet, he …
Professor Skinner's Visions
Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume I: Regarding Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume II: Renaissance Virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasing sense for political theorists in each camp to engage with one another. This book, first published in 2006, draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Andrew Dob…
Must Political Theory Be Historical
It is said in some quarters that political theory need not, and perhaps should not, be a “historical” enterprise. It should be concerned with discovering and articulating timeless truths or addressing “perennial problems.” Or it should be an ahistorical “analytical” study in which one aims to answer important questions definitively and once and for all. The author argues that these and other attempts to de-historicize political theory are misguid…
Imagining Interest in Political Thought
Imagining Interest in Political Thought: Origins of Economic Rationality
Aonde vai a teoria política
Neste texto o autor propõe uma reavaliação da Teoria Política, a partir da constatação de sua "morte" e, ao mesmo tempo, da revalorização da disciplina a partir de meados dos anos 1970. A resposta do autor consiste em estabelecer uma distinção entre teorizações de primeira e segunda ordens, isto é, entre reflexões sobre as condições gerais de vida política em comum e o estudo dessas reflexões. Em seguida, o autor indica como os fatores que desval…
Green political theory
There is a widely shared albeit arguably mistaken view that ‘ecological’ or ‘green’ political thought is of relatively recent vintage, being a product of the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s which saw the emergence of die Grünen in Germany and green parties in Britain and France, the publication of important environmental exposés and warnings, and symbolised by the first Earth Day in 1970. But modern green thought is older still, repre…
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought
This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History, first published in 2003, covers the rise of the welfare state and subsequent reactions to it, the fascist and communist critiques of and attempted alternatives to liberal democracy, the nov…
Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought
Confessions of a Conceptual Historian
L et me begin by saying how delighted I am to be here in Finland on my first -though not, I hope, my last -visit, and to be in the company of scholars from whom I continue to learn so much. I should also like to thank my hosts for their very kind hospitality, and to applaud them for their efforts to establish an ambitious and wide-ranging Finnish conceptual history project
Political innovation and conceptual change
From Paradigms to Research Programs
Political Writings
Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political thinkers: his influence (libertarian, democratic, participatory, and agrarian-republican) is still felt today. A prolific writer, Jefferson left 18,000 letters, Notes on the State of Virginia, an Autobiography, and numerous other papers. Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball have selected the most important of these for presentation in the Cambridge Texts series: Jeffer…
Marx and Darwin
Hobbes' Linguistic Turn
Thomas Hobbes has often been regarded as a "protopositivist" precursor of the scientific study of politics. Terence Ball argues here that it may be more appropriate to consider him as a thinker acutely aware that social and political reality is linguistically made. However, Hobbes was inclined to treat the distortion or breakdown of communication as a technical problem to be met by the sovereign's imposition of "shared" meanings
New Ethics for Old? Or, How (Not) to Think About Future Generations
The Formation of Character
Character" is today a key concept in conservative discourse and is virtually absent from the language of liberalism. I argue that liberals can, and perhaps ought to, reclaim the concept of character from its near-monopoly by conservatives. One way to do so is to look back to John Stuart Mill's proposed "science" of character-formation, which in his System of Logic (1843) he called "ethology." Although he never wrote a treatise on ethology, his ma…
Power, Causation & Explanation
The concept, power, is here analyzed in terms significant not only to students of political philosophy but to all sorts of political science folk. Scrutiny of the pluralist-stratificationist controversy over community power (including explication of the assumptions of Dahl and Bachrach/ Baratz on whether non-events can be causes) provides an example of defective uses of the concept, power. Ball criticizes the assumption that power has a single me…
Aonde vai a teoria política
Neste texto o autor propõe uma reavaliação da Teoria Política, a partir da constatação de sua "morte" e, ao mesmo tempo, da revalorização da disciplina a partir de meados dos anos 1970. A resposta do autor consiste em estabelecer uma distinção entre teorizações de primeira e segunda ordens, isto é, entre reflexões sobre as condições gerais de vida política em comum e o estudo dessas reflexões. Em seguida, o autor indica como os fatores que desval…
Two concepts of coercion
III. The Picaresque Prince
Interest-Explanations
When political scientists explain behavior with reference to "interests," what kind of explanation do they give? It is often argued-or more often simply assumed-that interests stand in a contingent causal relation to behavior and, therefore, that interest-explanations are causal explanations. In different ways and for different reasons this assumption is made by both older behaviorists and the newer behaviorlists. In this article Terence Ball exa…
Political Theory and Political Science
The too-often unhappy 'marriage' of political theory and political science has long been a source of anguish for both partners. Should this troubled partnership be dissolved? Or might this marriage yet be saved? Ball answers the former question negatively and the latter affirmatively. Playing the part of therapist instead of theorist, he selectively recounts a number of episodes which estranged the partners and strained the marriage. And yet, he …
From ‘core’ to ‘sore’ concepts
1999). From ‘core’ to ‘sore’ concepts: Ideological innovation and conceptual change. Journal of Political Ideologies: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 391-396
Conceptual Change and the Constitution
Professor Skinner's Visions
Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume I: Regarding Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume II: Renaissance Virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics, Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Confessions of a Conceptual Historian
L et me begin by saying how delighted I am to be here in Finland on my first -though not, I hope, my last -visit, and to be in the company of scholars from whom I continue to learn so much. I should also like to thank my hosts for their very kind hospitality, and to applaud them for their efforts to establish an ambitious and wide-ranging Finnish conceptual history project
Democracy and Vision
The earth belongs to the living
The contention that future people have interests and rights that we are obligated to respect is not new and did not originate in modern ‘environmentalist’ sensibilities. It received an early airing two centuries ago from thinkers as disparate as Kant, Burke, and Thomas Jefferson. I deal in the main with Jefferson's claim that ‘the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’ and its implications for protecting posterity's interests, and secondarily w…
Power' Revised
On 'Historical' Explanation
Inside The Turner Diaries
At 9:02 on the morning of April 19, 1995, a powerful fertilizer bomb exploded in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. One hundred sixty-eight people, including twenty children, were killed. More than 500 people were badly injured. Federal authorities at first suspected foreign terrorists. The trail, however, led elsewhere—to two (and possibly more) self-styled American “patriots” with ties to the neo-nazi “militia” movement. One…
Ideology and consistency
Conceptual Change and the Constitution
Journal Article Conceptual Change and the Constitution. Ed. by Terence Ball and J. G. A. Pocock. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.x + 218 pp. $25.00.) Get access Herman Beiz Herman Beiz University of Maryland College Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1257–1258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936627 Published: 01 March 1990
The Essential Tension
On 'Historical' Explanation
Theory and Practice
Theory and Practice
N OUR DAY it a commonplace in political science and the history of political thought to draw a number of sharp distinctions. Among our most cherished distinctions are those between and practice, thought and action, is and ought, fact and value, normative and descriptive discourse, analytic and propositions, philosophy and science. Quite often, in order to gain a historical purchase on these distinctions, we look back to the beginnings of politica…
Power, Causation & Explanation
The concept, power, is here analyzed in terms significant not only to students of political philosophy but to all sorts of political science folk. Scrutiny of the pluralist-stratificationist controversy over community power (including explication of the assumptions of Dahl and Bachrach/ Baratz on whether non-events can be causes) provides an example of defective uses of the concept, power. Ball criticizes the assumption that power has a single me…
Models of Power
Social scientists generally, and political scientists in particular, are nowadays apt to think of power relations as causal ones: to exercise power is to cause someone to do something that he would not otherwise do. This might be unexceptionable enough, except that political scientists then go on to make two rather more questionable moves. The first is to picture causal relations, and hence “power,” in narrowly mechanistic terms; the second is to…
From Paradigms to Research Programs
Power' Revised
Two concepts of coercion
The Essential Tension
Interest-Explanations
When political scientists explain behavior with reference to "interests," what kind of explanation do they give? It is often argued-or more often simply assumed-that interests stand in a contingent causal relation to behavior and, therefore, that interest-explanations are causal explanations. In different ways and for different reasons this assumption is made by both older behaviorists and the newer behaviorlists. In this article Terence Ball exa…
Marx and Darwin
Popper's Psychologism
Communications
Platonism and penology
The modern science of penology owes much to the English Utilitarians, and to Bentham and his erstwhile disciple James Mill in particular. I argue that James Mill's views on crime and punishment are, contrary to the conventional view, not simply those of a Benthamite Utilitarian; they are, rather, distinctively Platonist. James Mill's penological theory reveals, upon closer examination, a deep and pervasive debt to Plato. The upshot of this discov…
Books in Review
The Authority of Experts
III. The Picaresque Prince
The incoherence of intergenerational justice
Contemporary theories of justice fail to recognize that the concepts constitutive of our political practices ‐ including ‘justice’ itself‐ have historically mutable meanings. To recognize the fact of conceptual change entails an alteration in our understanding of justice between generations. Because there can be no transhistorical theory of justice, there can be no valid theory of intergenerational justice either ‐ especially where the generation…
That Noble Science of Politics
Academic Marxism Unleashed
Hobbes' Linguistic Turn
Thomas Hobbes has often been regarded as a "protopositivist" precursor of the scientific study of politics. Terence Ball argues here that it may be more appropriate to consider him as a thinker acutely aware that social and political reality is linguistically made. However, Hobbes was inclined to treat the distortion or breakdown of communication as a technical problem to be met by the sovereign's imposition of "shared" meanings
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
The Marx-Engels Register
Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism
Political innovation and conceptual change
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