New York: The Macmilan Company, 1935. — 614 p.
Recent Tendencies in Political ThoughtBy
Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago The Outstanding Social Forces of the Period
Leading Groups that Developed Systems of Political Rationalization
The Intellectual Equipment of Contemporary Political Theorists
Methods of Political Inquiry
Actual Progress in Political Speculation
Some Recent Critics and Exponents of the Theory of DemocracyBy
Malcolm M. Willey, Dartmouth College
Uncritical Advocates of Democracy
Antagonists of Democratic Theory
Differential Biology and Psychology
The Exponents of Democracy
The Basic Problems
Pluralistic Theories and the Attack upon State SovereigntyBy
F. W. Coker, Ohio State University
The Traditional Doctrine of State Sovereignty
The Pluralistic Attacks
State Sovereignty and Group Autonomy
State Sovereignty and Internationalism
State Sovereignty and Law
Political Theory and International LawBy
E. M. Borchard, Yale University Law School
Recent Political Theory Developed in JurisprudenceBy
Caleb Perry Patterson, University of Texas
The Nature, Scope and Methods of Jurisprudence
The Schools of Jurisprudence
The Analytical School
The Historical School
The Philosophical School
The Comparative School
The Sociological School
Recent Tendencies in Jurisprudence
Proletarian Political TheoryBy
Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago
The Purpose and Setting of Proletarian Political Theory
Collectivism
Anarchism
Syndicalism
Guild Socialism
Consumed Cooperation
Agrarian Distributivism
The Single Tax
Bolshevism
Influence of Political Tactics on Socialist Theory in Germany, 1863-1914By
Carlton J. H. Hayes, Columbia University The Lack of Revolutionary Tradition in Germany
The Influence of Lassalle
The Era of Persecution
Patriotism and Revisionism
The Fateful Election of 1907 and the Triumph of Revisionism
Political Implications of Recent Philosophical MovementsBy
Herbert W. Schneider, Columbia University
The Rival Methods
Idealism
Naturalism and Evolutionism Pragmatism and Experimentalism Fundamental Issues
Monism versus Pluralism
Moralisin versus Non-Moralism . Democratic versus Aristocratic Ideals
Some Contributions of Sociology to Modern Political TheoryBy
Harry Elmer Barnes, Smith College
Sociology and Political Science
The Sociological View of the Nature of the State
The Origins of Political Institutions
The Basic Factors in the State
The Forms of the State and Government
The Processes and Mechanism of Government
Sociological Opinion on Liberty and Rights
Social Progress and the Scope of State Activity
International Relations
Extra-Legal Phases of Political Institutions
Political Theory and the Social Environment
Concluding Estimate
Social Psychology and Political TheoryBy
Charles Elmer Gehlke, Western Reserve University
The Group and Social Control
Psychological Factors in Social Control
The Cultural Analysis of Political and Social Facts
Some Practical Applications of the Psychological Approach to Politics
Anthropological Theories of Political OriginsBy
Alexander A. Goldenweiser, New School for Social Research
The Basic Forms of Social Organization
Theories of Social and Political Evolution
Development of the Evolutionary Position
Criticism of the Evolutionary Scheme of Morgan
Primitive Political Organization
Some Representative Contributions of Anthropogeography to political theoryBy
Franklin Thomas, Columbia University
Introductory
Karl Ritter
Henry Thomas Buckle
Friedrich Ratzel
Ellen Churchill Semple
Jean Jacques Elisée Reclus
Halford John Mackinder
Ellsworth Huntington
Edwin Grant Dexter
Robert H. Lowie
Race as a Factor in Political TheoryBy
Frank H. Hankins, Smith College
Aryanism
Teutonism
Anthropo-Sociology
Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism in America
American Nordicism