By combining disciplinary critiques with alternative approaches to political science, this book provides innovative and progressive perspectives on the study of politics today. This book was published as a special issue of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture.

This title examines what political scientists are studying - and how they are doing it - in ways that could improve our world. It features scholars in political science and related fields, who are engaged in research that is more politically relevant than the work that continues to dominate the larger discipline.