/lit/ - Literature

>>18771510
By no means a 'canon' of political science, or exhaustive, just some modern classics. Mostly scattershot, probably over-emphasising some areas and under-emphasising others. I'm sure there is plenty missing too. Political science as a disciple is so varied and disorganised that it is difficult to do anything more. Just look up the books and see if the book/topic interests you.
Some oft-cited historical works:
>Politics - Aristotle
>The Prince - Machiavelli
>Leviathan - Hobbes
>Perpetual Peace - Kant
>Politics as Vocation - Weber
Some 'modern classics':
>The Third Wave - Huntington
>Making Democracy Work - Putnam
>Political Order in Changing Societies - Huntington
>A Preface to Democratic Theory - Dahl
>Who Governs? - Dahl
>Imagined Communities - Anderson
>Nations and Nationalism - Gellner
>States and Social Revolutions - Skocpol
>Bureaucracy - Wilson
>An Economic Theory of Democracy - Downs
>The Logic of Collective Action - Olson
>Patterns of Democracy - Lijphart
>Political Parties - Duverger
>Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - Kingdon
>Street Level Bureaucracy - Lipsky
>Essence of Decision - Allison
>Seeing Like a State - Scott
>Power in Movement - Tarrow
IR:
>Politics Among Nations - Morgenthau
>A Theory of International Politics - Waltz
>Soft Power - Nye
>After Hegemony - Keohane
>A Social Theory of International Politics - Wendt
Meme books:
>The End of History - Fukuyama
>The Clash of Civilisations - Huntington
Some 'classic' papers:
>'Two Faces of Power' - Bachrach
>'The Science of Muddling Through' - Lindblohm
>'A Garbage Can Model of Organisational Decision Making' - Cohen
>'The Tragedy of the Commons' - Hardin
>'Diplomacy and Domestic Politics' - Putnam
>'The Agenda Setting Function of Mass Media' - McCombs
>'Social Mobilisation and Political Development' - Deutsch
>'Some Social Requisites of Democracy' - Lipset
>'Citizenship and Social Class' - Marshall
>'Anarchy is what States Make of it' - Wendt
>'The False Promise of International Institutions' - Mearsheimer
>'Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State' - Hall
>'Effective” number of parties' - Laasko
>'The new institutionalism' - March
>'Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development' - Olson

>>18149592
It was just a dramatic element added by Plato. In the ancient Greek Symposion there were certain expectations between the guests and the hosts. The host (symposiarch) has control over the wine and was meant to dilute it with water as the night went on and according to the guests drunkeness. The guests (symposiasts) also had expectations about how to behave. One of the great virtues of ancient Greece (particularly Athens) was Sophrosyne, which means moderation/temperance/self-control. It was one of the most important marks of an adult in Greece. Symposions were events particularly focused around this virute. The expectations on the guests was to display sophrosyne through their ability to hold their composure throughout the night of drinking while engaging in the nightly activities. These activities are exactly like those portrayed in The Symposium: engaging in witty and intelligent discussions of philosophical topics, composing elegiac poetry (often spontaneously), all while getting blotto on the host's wine. The Athenians held rhetoric and speech in great esteem so demonstrating your sophrosyne through mastery of speech was very important.
From Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae
>[he] Deserves to be above his fellows lauded
>Who drinks and then says good and witty things,
>Such as his memory and taste suggests,—
>Who lays down rules, and tells fine tales of virtue;
>Not raking up the old Titanic fables,
>Wars of the Giants, or the Lapithæ,
>Figments of ancient times, mere pleasing trifles,
>Full of no solid good; but always speaking
>Things that may lead to right ideas of God
So the portrayal of Socrates as someone who couldn't get drunk was just a dramatic element of Plato's to show Socrates' great virtue (despite his claims to be untutored and lacking knowledge in virtue). He also shows Socrates as a guest of great eminence at the symposion by his position on the couch near the symposiarch, despite the presence of other great figures like Aristophanes. And Aristophanes' story would be considered passé at a symposion by way of its 'epic' elements, which was likely also deliberate given Plato's opinion of him. Socrates' excellent conduct also serves as a contrast to Alcibiades, who is the archetypal bad guest of a symposion. When he enters drunk with his arms draped around two flute girls, he is invoking the image of a satyr and maenad, which were symbols of Dionysus and the antithesis of the ideal guest. And his drunken speech is in no way witty or intelligent, but a chronicle of unreciprocated lust.