Countries and Concepts Politics, Geography, Culture 12th Edition by Michael G. Roskin

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Countries and Concepts Politics, Geography, Culture 12th Edition by Michael G. Roskin ISBN-13: 9780205854653 ISBN-10: 0205854656 xxvii Countries and Concepts does not attempt to create young scholars out of college students. Rather, it sees comparative politics as an important but usually neglected grounding in citizenship that we should be making available to our young people. I agree with the late Morris Janowitz (in his 1983 The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Consciousness) that civic education has declined in the United States and that this poses dangers for democracy. Our students are often uninformed about the historical, political, economic, geographical, and moral aspects of democracy, and to expose them to professional-level abstractions in political science ignores their civic education and offers material that is largely meaningless to them. An undergraduate is not a miniature graduate student. Accordingly, Countries and Concepts includes a good deal of fundamental vocabulary and concepts, buttressed by many examples. It is dedicated to Kant?s injunction that concepts must never be separated from percepts. It is readable. Many students neglect assigned readings; with Countries and Concepts, they cannot make the excuse that the reading is long or boring. Some reviewers note that Countries and Concepts contains values and criticisms. This is part of my purpose. The two go together; if you have no values, then you have no basis from which to criticize. Value-free instruction is probably impossible. If successful, it would produce value-free students, and that, I think, should not be the aim of the educational enterprise. If one knows something with the head but not with the heart, then one really does not know it at all. Is Countries and Concepts too critical? It treats politics as a series of ongoing quarrels for which no very good solutions can be found. It casts a skeptical eye on all political systems and all solutions proposed for political problems. As such, the book is not out to ?get? any one country. All political systems are flawed; none approaches perfection. Let us simply say so. Countries and Concepts rejects absurd theories of smoothly functioning systems or rational calculators that never break down or make mistakes. Put it this way: If we are critical of the workings of our own country?s politics?and many, perhaps most, of us are?why should we abandon that critical spirit in looking at other lands?

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Countries and Concepts Politics, Geography, Culture 12th Edition by Michael G. Roskin
ISBN-13: 9780205854653
ISBN-10: 0205854656
xxvii
Countries and Concepts does not attempt to create young scholars out of college students. Rather,
it sees comparative politics as an important but usually neglected grounding in citizenship that we
should be making available to our young people. I agree with the late Morris Janowitz (in his 1983
The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Consciousness) that civic education has declined
in the United States and that this poses dangers for democracy. Our students are often uninformed
about the historical, political, economic, geographical, and moral aspects of democracy, and to expose
them to professional-level abstractions in political science ignores their civic education and offers
material that is largely meaningless to them. An undergraduate is not a miniature graduate student.
Accordingly, Countries and Concepts includes a good deal of fundamental vocabulary and concepts,
buttressed by many examples. It is dedicated to Kant?s injunction that concepts must never
be separated from percepts. It is readable. Many students neglect assigned readings; with Countries
and Concepts, they cannot make the excuse that the reading is long or boring.
Some reviewers note that Countries and Concepts contains values and criticisms. This is part
of my purpose. The two go together; if you have no values, then you have no basis from which to
criticize. Value-free instruction is probably impossible. If successful, it would produce value-free
students, and that, I think, should not be the aim of the educational enterprise. If one knows something
with the head but not with the heart, then one really does not know it at all.
Is Countries and Concepts too critical? It treats politics as a series of ongoing quarrels for which
no very good solutions can be found. It casts a skeptical eye on all political systems and all solutions
proposed for political problems. As such, the book is not out to ?get? any one country. All political
systems are flawed; none approaches perfection. Let us simply say so. Countries and Concepts rejects
absurd theories of smoothly functioning systems or rational calculators that never break down or make
mistakes. Put it this way: If we are critical of the workings of our own country?s politics?and many,
perhaps most, of us are?why should we abandon that critical spirit in looking at other lands?