Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1. What is Political Management? -- Chapter 2. Politics and Polity: A Delicate Equipoise -- Chapter 3. Society, Law, and Legitimation -- Chapter 4. Politics, Representation and Sovereignty -- Chapter 5. Problems of Institutional Polity -- Chapter 6. Discretion in Politics, Administration and Law -- Chapter 7. Is a "Practical" Science of Politics Possible? -- Chapter 8. How to Make Social Science Responsibly Political -- Chapter 9. The University as a Training Ground for Citizenship -- Chapter 10. Citizens, Agents and Members in the Modern Territorial State -- Chapter 11. Some Arguments Against Political Management -- Chapter 12. The Privilege of Experience -- Reprise -- Literature -- Name Index -- Backmatter