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

Résumé
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.