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by Aurel Kolnai
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great...
Navigating the News: A Political Media User's Guide
A Political Media User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the book for anyone who aspires to the title "informed citizen." It clearly explains how political news works, how the media influences readers—and how to sort through it all to be a better, smarter consumer of political news.
• Shows readers how to spot bad political...
by Cynthia Stavrianos
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As various contemporary groups use the language of motherhood to advance their political causes, maternal rhetoric has become very visible in the American political discourse of late. Yet while it has long been recognized that women have invoked their political status as mothers to organize and authorize...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political...
Political Philosophy
A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?
This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers...
by George Klosko
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2004
In The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation, George Klosko presents the first book-length treatment of political obligation grounded in the premises of liberal political theory. In this now-classic work, he clearly and systematically formulates what others thought impossible-a principle...
China
The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China's past, and showing how it impacts upon the present. Chinese political traditions...
Politics Recovered
Realist Thought in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South, Central and South East Asia and highlight the immediacy of the challenge for the political leadership...
Civil Society and Political Representation in Latin America (2010-2015)
Towards a Divorce Between Social Movements and Political Parties?
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements...
Political Theories of Decolonization
Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Political Theories of Decolonization provides an introduction to some of the seminal texts of postcolonial political theory. The difficulty of founding a new regime is an important theme in political theory, and the intellectual history of decolonization provides a rich--albeit overlooked--opportunity...
Theory of the Political Subject
Void Universalism II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective.
Theory of the Political Subject continues the project of reconstruction of political universalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (HCPI) is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to our accumulated knowledge and the cutting edge of scholarship about political institutions in the comparative context. It differs from existing handbooks in that it focuses...
Think
Practical Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
A contemporary book of social-political and philosophical content which depicts all the social-political occurances of the modern society. What was it like and what should the human society be like? What do the social political terms: Society, State, Citizen, Member Of Parliament, Democracy etc mean?...