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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy
Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good...
Democracy's Promise
Immigrants and American Civic Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government...
Political Attitudes
Computational and Simulation Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Political Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant paradigm. In political science...
by Peter Neitzsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: Political Ideas and Political Institutions in the United States, 4 entries in the bibliography, language:...
Battle for Hearts and Minds
New Media and Elections in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The Singapore 2011 General Election was dubbed by some as the first "Internet" election. How far is this true and to what extent did old and new media influence voting behaviour and political participation? What was the role of Facebook, Twitter, party political websites, political discussion...
by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This groundbreaking new work explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism. Encyclopedia of Modern Political...
Political Philosophy and Political Action
Imperatives of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Political philosophers have long taken inspiration from political movements when crafting their theories, which they hoped would address the universal problems of democracy. Political Philosophy and Political Actioninvestigates the relationship between political practices of popular resistance and...
by Robert Barylski
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
If Russia is to become a viable democracy, it will need a viable state to make and enforce decisions that nurture societal cohesion and sustain complex economic activity. Armed forces are essential attributes of viable modern states, but what happens when states undergo major structural changes? What...
Concepts That Shape Politics and Government in Cameroon
A Handbook of Political Theory for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In this book, the reader is introduced to the concepts of politics, government, political theory and political culture with reference to Cameroon. Defined as human activity concerned with controversies over public questions and the resolution of those controversies, politics is concerned with the...
Against the Personification of Democracy
A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the forefront. By using Lacan to read key figures in political philosophy, the book demonstrates why democratic theory -- representative or radical - is not only ineffective...
Modern Political Science
Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change? Modern Political Science--the first authoritative...
by Matteo Bonotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Since its publication in 1993, John Rawls's Political Liberalism has been central to debates concerning political legitimacy, democratic theory, toleration, and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory. Yet, despite the immense body of literature which has been produced since Rawls's work...
by David J. Siemers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
“What did the president know and when did he know it?” takes on a whole new meaning in Presidents and Political Thought. Though political philosophy is sometimes considered to be dry and abstract, many of our presidents have found usable ideas embedded within it. In this first comparative study...