History Theory category: 16752 books
Contemporary Environmental Politics
From Margins to Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics,* *presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.
Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental...
The Odyssey of Political Theory
The Politics of Departure and Return
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2003
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides...
The Americas in Early Modern Political Theory
States of Nature and Aboriginality
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book examines early modern social contract theories within European representations of the Americas in the 16th and 17th century. Despite addressing the Americas only marginally, social contract theories transformed American social imaginaries prevalent at the time into Aboriginality, allowing...
Incremental Polarization
A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters...
Arendt, Agamben and the Issue of Hyper-Legality
In Between the Prisoner-Stateless Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt famously argued that the stateless were so rightless, that it was better to be a criminal who at least had some rights and protections.
In this book, Kathleen R. Arnold examines Arendt’s comparison in the context of post-1996 U.S. criminal...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues. Chapters...
In Defense of Openness
Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory, and there is no doubt that it will remain significant given the persistence of poverty on a massive scale and soaring global inequality. Yet, virtually every analysis in the vast literature...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary issues. Integrating guides to further reading...
Max Weber's Theory of the Modern State
Origins, structure and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Andreas Anter reconstructs Max Weber's theory of the modern state, showing its significance to contemporary political science. He reveals the ambivalence of Weber's political thought: the oscillation between an étatiste position, mainly oriented to the reason of state, and an individualistic one, focussed on the freedom of individuals
Integration of Immigrants and the Theory of Recognition
'Just Integration'
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book approaches the issue of immigrant integration as a democratic justice problem. Based on Honneth’s recognition theory, it introduces the concept of ‘Just Integration’, which challenges the capacity of the actual recognition order of the host society to include its immigrants as full...
by Kevin Blackburn, ZongLun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu’s book...
Visionary Pragmatism
Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
As neoliberal capitalism destroys democracy, commonwealth, and planetary ecology, the need for radically rethinking and generating transformative responses to these catastrophes is greater than ever. Given that, Romand Coles presents an invigorating new mode of scholarship and political practice he...
Compliance & Public Authority
A Theory with International Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Offers a theory of compliance and authority that wouild be applicable to behavior concerning economic contracts, law, enforcement, and international relations. It examiones the problem of compliance in centralized (e.g. national and state laws) and decentralized (international treaties) systems. Applies...
by James E. Meade
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth. Professor Meade seeks to understand the factors which determine the speed of economic growth and outlines the ways in which classical economic analysis may be developed for application to the problem of economic growth.