A NOVEL APPROACH TO POLITICS: INTRODUCING POLITICAL SCIENCE THROUGH BOOKS, MOVIES, AND POPULAR CULTURE(FOURTH EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 10350016B87538

English Summary/英文概要： A Novel Approach to Politics turns the conventional textbook wisdom on its head. This is a textbook students want to read.

With this new edition, Van Belle brings the book fully up-to-date with recent events, elections, current policy debates, international happenings, and other assorted intergalactic matters. Van Belle adds a wealth of new and recent movies and books to the text, as he illustrates key concepts in political science through examples that captivate students. Employing a wide range of references from 1984 to Game of Thrones to House of Cards, students are given a very solid grounding in institutions, ideology, and economics.

The textbook bits and pieces are still there to aid students—chapter objectives, chapter summaries, bolded key terms, and discussion questions. Retained for this edition, ’’The Thinkers in Boxes" feature calls out pivotal political philosophers, theorists, and assorted hipsters.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 政治学的新方法将传统教科书的智慧转变为它的开头。这是一本教科书，学生们会想要阅读它。

在这本新版本里，范贝尔将这本书全面地更新了，包括最近的事件、选举、当前的政策辩论、国际事件以及其他各种各样的星际事件。范贝尔在书中增加了大量的新电影和书籍，他通过例子来说明政治科学中的关键概念，这些例子吸引了学生。从1984年的权力游戏到纸牌屋，学生们得到了广泛的参考，在制度、意识形态和经济方面都有着坚实的基础。

教科书的零碎部分仍在那里，以帮助学生们了解每个章节的目标、摘要、关键术语和需要讨论的问题。保留在这一版的特色的“盒子里的思想家”，是关键的政治哲学家、理论家和形形色色的潮人。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：“对政治学的新方法最主要的吸引力在于它的可读性。”学生们喜欢不尊敬的态度，也喜欢看各种电影、电视节目和小说。这些重要的理论被清晰地呈现出来，大多数学生都可以自己掌握阅读。”(理查德•古铁雷斯)

“政治学的新方法的最大优势是它的幽默和可及性。学生喜欢阅读它。”(马修•奇尔德斯)

“政治学的新方法的天才之处在于，范贝尔用幽默和流行文化来吸引不情愿学习政治的学生。它的广泛主题和章节的安排使我有足够的自由来增加我对材料的独特的自旋。”(雪莉•里普洛格尔)

范贝尔的书很容易被大一和大二的学生所理解。它以一种对话、诙谐、时而又充满讽刺的口吻来写，特别吸引年轻人。”(约翰 •夏夫利)

“A Novel Approach to Politics’ major strength is its readability. Students enjoy its irreverent approach as well as the references to various films, TV shoes, and novels. The important theories are clearly presented in a format that most students can grasp reading on their own.”(Richard Gutierrez)

“The greatest strengths of A Novel Approach to Politics are its humor and accessibility. Students love reading it.”(Matthew A. Childers)

“The genius of A Novel Approach to Politics is that Van Belle uses humor and pop culture to engage the reluctant student of politics. Its broad themes and arrangement of chapters allows plenty of freedom to add my own unique spin to the material.”(Sherri S. Replogle)

“Van Belle’s book is easily accessible to college freshman and sophomores. It is written in a conversational, witty, at times sarcastic tone that appeals to young people.”(John A. Shively)

About the Author/作者介绍： 道格拉斯•万•贝尔是惠灵顿维多利亚大学媒体研究的高级讲师。他是第一个在国际研究协会担任外交政策分析和国际交流研究小组主席的人。他还担任国际研究展望和外交政策分析的主编，并对国际政治中的媒体系统和信息流进行了广泛的研究。他创造了这项研究前的新闻自由数据，研究媒体自由对国际冲突的影响，如“新闻自由和民主和平”(和平研究杂志)。最初的分析被扩展到完全的新闻自由和全球政治(普雷格)，这为在这里进行的扩展提供了基础。通过对大众媒体和政治理论的研究，作者为我们呈现了这本教科书，政治学的新方法，现在已经是第4版了。此外，在重返媒体自由的分析之前，他进行了一系列研究，研究信息流动、灾难和外国援助之间的关系，包括媒体、官僚机构和外国援助(帕尔格雷夫：以及波特和里乌)。

Douglas A. Van Belle is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He was the first person to have served as the president of both the Foreign Policy Analysis and the International Communication research sections in the International Studies Association. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Perspectives and Foreign Policy Analysis and has conducted extensive research on media systems and information flows in international politics. He created the press freedom data set that precedes this study, to examine the effect of media freedom on international conflict, as exemplified by “Press Freedom and the Democratic Peace” (Journal of Peace Research). That initial analysis was expanded to complete Press Freedom and Global Politics (Praeger), which provides the foundation for the extension conducted here. Studies of popular media and political theory led to the undergraduate textbook, A Novel Approach to Politics, which is now in its 4th edition. Also, before returning to the analysis of media freedom with this project, he conducted a series of studies examining the relationship between information flows, disasters, and foreign aid, including Media, Bureaucracies and Foreign Aid (Palgrave: With Potter and Rioux).

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