The discipline of political science has reached a crossroads. The frequency with
which terms such as "post-liberal", "post-modern", "post-patriarchical",
"post-materialist", and "post-structural" are used in contemporary political
discourse testifies to the pervasive conviction that an era has ended.
Similarly, phrases such as "new world order", "new paradigm", "new age", and
"third wave" convey the widely-shared expectation that what lies ahead
politically will be qualitatively unlike what has gone before. Transformational
Politics argues that traditional political science is failing to identify and
address fundamental political phenomena of our time and proposes an alternative
value-based political science that not only studies phenomena, but also uses
knowledge to promote democracy, sustainability, and