Political category: 85882 books
Panarchy
Political Theories of Non-Territorial States
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens. The explicit social contract, or a constitution, sets the terms under which a state may use...
Politics and Suicide
The philosophy of political self-destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal ‘suicidal’ articulation...
Political Myth
On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bible,...
The Political is Political
Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This handbook presents in a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview, the emerging field of international political sociology. It summarizes and synthesizes existing knowledge in the field while presenting central themes and methodologies that have been at the centre of its development, providing...
by Yang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book discusses one of the most noticeable and significant transformations in China over the past three decades is the rapid and massive urbanization of the country, which has brought shifts in political culture of Chinese urbanites. This book is a systematic and empirical study of political culture...
Performing Political Theory
Pedagogy in Modern Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book examines the performative role of influential thinkers in the history of modern Western political thought. The case studies examine influential political philosophers who saw their writing role ‘performatively’, as an exercise in pedagogy designed to generate a new type of political...
by Scott G Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson...
Expect Us
Online Communities and Political Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political activity into the offline world of activism? In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness...
Appearances of Ethos in Political Thought
The Dimension of Practical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand? While many political thinkers argue that democratic ethics should shape political judgments, the concept of ethos remains underdeveloped.
Appearances of Ethos responds to this gap in three ways. It begins by identifying the contours of the...
The Political Primer
Fundamentals of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The kind of society you want to live in depends upon what you politically believe. Each political party has embraced a Worldview of how society should be structured and how people should interact. Each party is striving to create a world structured by their Worldview. The goal of politics is to place...
Political Pluralism and the State
Beyond Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different processes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit’s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field’s most important readings in a single volume
Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the...
by Fevzi Bilgin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Having survived the process of modernization and reasserted themselves in public life, religious traditions play an increasingly important public role in shaping and defining social institutions and interactions.
This book examines Rawls’s theory of political liberalism in the context of...