Poli Sci Fi

An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction
Herausgeber: Allen, Michael A; Vaughn, Justin S

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction is a carefully composed text of eighteen brief chapters, each of which takes a prominent science fiction film or television episode and uses it to explore fundamentally core components of political science. The book is designed to serve as a supplemental text for undergraduate political science courses, especially Introduction to Political Science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138639768
• ISBN-10: 1138639761
• Artikelnr.: 43859154

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Allen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boise State University. Justin Vaughn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boise State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Science Fiction as a Tool of Political Science - Michael A.
Allen and Justin S. Vaughn SECTION I: THEORY AND EPISTEMOLOGY 1. Improving
Public Policy: Measurement & Prediction in Minority Report - Jennifer
Kelkres Emery 2. Equilibrium: If Game Theorists Ruled the World? -
Benjamin Farrer SECTION II: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR 3. Service Guarantees
Citizenship: Starship Troopers and Democracy - Ted Henry Brown and Christie
L. Maloyed 4. Idiocracy: Do you need to be informed to vote in a democracy?
- Conor M. Dowling 5. One Choice Can Transform You: Political Ideology and
Culture in Divergent - Jocelyn Evans SECTION III: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 6.
Star Wars and the Executive Branch - Joseph E. Uscinski 7. Star Wars and
Legislatures - Zachary Callen 8. Are You Divergent? Political Factions and
Personal Identity - Steve B. Lem 9. Yes... Yes... All Your 'Rights' As
Defined By the Cardassian Articles of Jurisprudence Will Be Protected:
Civil Liberties in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Raymond V. Carman, Jr. 10.
The Bureaucratic Mind of Hermes Conrad: Administrative Behavior in
Futurama - Scott E. Robinson and Justin S. Vaughn SECTION IV: IDENTITY 11.
The Politics of Gender in the World of the Twelve Colonies - Lilly J. Goren
12. "We Shall Overcome:" The Districts of Panem and Identity Politics in
The Hunger Games - Jennifer Kelkres Emery and Jocelyn Evans SECTION V:
STATES 13. Democratic Breakdown in V for Vendetta - Julie VanDusky-Allen
14. Understanding Civil War through Star Wars - Michael A. Allen SECTION
VI: INTER-STATE RELATIONS 15. Buggers and Astronauts: Ethics and Security
in Ender's Game - Mary Elizabeth Sullivan 16. Battlestar Galactica and
Foreign Policy - Michael E. Flynn