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The Quest for Civil Order

Politics, Rules and Individuality

by Chor-yung Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

Examines four notable thinkers in the field of modern social and political theory, with a view to determining how far it is possible to create and maintain a non-coercive but sustainable political order under conditions of diversity in contemporary Western democracies.

The Case Against a Democratic State

An Essay in Cultural Criticism

by Gordon Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

The history of the last two hundred years is a story of the immense and relentless growth of the State at the expense of other social institutions. We are now so familiar and accepting of the State's pre-eminence in all things, that few think to question it, and most suppose that democratic endorsement...
by Kieron O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016

A lively and sharp critique of the role of the referendum in modern British politics. The 1975 vote on Europe is the lens to focus the subject, and the controversy over the referendum on the European constitution is also clearly in the author’s sights.
by Nick Hewlett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017

After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear from the start that his rule was to be the most autocratic since Charles de Gaulle's; Prime Minister, government and parliament found themselves eclipsed...

The 1975 Referendum on Europe - Volume 2

Current Analysis and Lessons for the Future

by Mark Baimbridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Provides an analysis of the relationship between the UK and the EU, treating the key overarching issues in the 1975 referendum and looking ahead to the prospect (eventually) of further referendums on the subjects of EMU and a European constitution.
by Neil MacCormick
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012

In this short but authoritative book, the nature and purpose of the European Constitution are explained by someone involved in its preparation. The author discusses how it was drafted, and tackles some much debated questions: whether it promises any enhancement of democracy in the EU, whether it implies...
by Stephen Prickett
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university...

Playing the Long Game

How to Save the West from Short-Termism

by Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

We obsess about what our politicians are doing, but ignore that our companies are no longer investing, instead they are focusing on next quarter’s profits in order to justify ever higher executive compensation. This is in turn accelerating the West’s economic decline versus the East. While the...
by Duke Maskell
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

Something has gone deeply wrong with the university - too deeply wrong to be put right by any merely bureaucratic means. What’s wrong is, simply, that our official idea of education, the idea that inspires all government policies and ‘initiatives’, is itself uneducated. With the growing emphasis...
by Kieron O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad’s work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad’s scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the...
by John Haldane
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017

Collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding.
by Mark Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

Liberal values are the hallmark of a civilised society. Yet they depend on an optimistic view of the human condition, Stripped of this essential ingredient, liberalism has become a hollowed-out abstraction. Tracing its effects through the media, politics and the public services, the author argues...

The Great Abdication

Why Britain's Decline is the Fault of the Middle Class

by Alexander Deane
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

The middle class provides British society with its stability and strength. According to Deane’s contentious thesis, our middle class has abstained from its responsibility to uphold societal values, and the enormously damaging collapse of our society’s norms and standards is largely a result of...

Paradoxes of Power

Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude

by Alfred Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

Thumb through the index of almost any study of the Thatcher years — biographical, scholarly or journalistic — and you will come across the name of Sir Alfred Sherman. In her memoirs Lady Thatcher herself pays tribute to Sherman’s ‘brilliance’, the ‘force and clarity of his mind’, his ‘breadth...
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