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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
At a point in history marked by dramatic challenges to the existing political and social order, the question of legal and political obligation emerges as a focal point of international concern. Amid the clamor for radical change in the established order, theories of political obligation demand renewed...
by Colin Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
`This text provides an up to date account of how things currently stand in political philosophy, and will provide an excellent introduction for students from any background. It gives a lucid and careful account of the central controversies and sites of disagreement in political theory over the last...
Political Theology
Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.
Kahn works out his...
Political Philosophy versus History?
Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the world's leading political philosophers...
Political Illiberalism
A Defense of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book deconstructs the story of liberalism that John Rawls, author of Political Liberalism, and many others have put forward. Peter L.P. Simpson argues that political liberalism is despotic because it denies to politics a concern with the comprehensive human good; political illiberalism overcomes...
Political Ontology and International Political Thought
Voiding a Pluralist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation...
by Anthony C. Patton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
'The Political Spectrum' sets out to identify the timeless, universal principles of political philosophy that shape how we live as a society, from democracy in Ancient Greece and the aristocracies of the Enlightenment to the tribal lands of Pakistan and the modern state that is the United States of America....
Foundation of Political Freedom in the Democracy of Nigeria
The 21St Century Approach to Civil Progress and Political Democracy in the Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Growth and Development of Multiple Political Party Systems in Nigeria In the present Nigeria, there are so many active, goal-oriented political parties that have grown with the interest of the people at heart. Political party system is the peoples best choice for supporting democratic government....
Political Discussion in Modern Democracies
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each. However, these areas are often treated...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic worldview have competed for legislative seats. Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World examines the impact these parties have had...
The Logic of Japanese Politics
Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese...
by Ishac Diwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010–2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests. Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings reassess the interests, potential and constraints...
Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey
Fragmentations, Mobilizations, Participations & Repertoires
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The Kurdish conflict is an acknowledged long-standing issue in the Middle East, and the emergence of radical Kurdish nationalist movements in the 20th century played a decisive role in the evolution of political violence.
Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey examines how this political violence...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
There is increasing awareness of growing similarities in political marketing practices around the world. Global political marketing is a comprehensive analysis of why, how and with what affect parties use political marketing in a range of political systems - presidential, parliamentary, two and multi-party,...