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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection offers a thought-provoking critique of the role of the concept of reasonableness in liberal political theory, focusing on the proposed relationship between reasonableness and the establishment...
American Government
Political Development and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it’s likely to change through reform—these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson’s highly lauded American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change. Even in the midst of current challenges,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This is the second volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP...
by Jorge Valadez
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Most foundational works in political philosophy have made fundamentally false and far-reaching assumptions concerning the culturally homogeneous character of the polity.Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, andSelf-Determination in Multicultural Societies provides a much needed corrective...
Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror
Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, foreshadowed his own assassination at his home in Colombo in August 2005. Kadirgamar had a clear and prophetic...
by Dr W.M. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
This brief narrative survey of political thought over the past two millennia explores key ideas that have shaped Western political traditions. Beginning with the Ancient Greeks' classical emphasis on politics as an independent sphere of activity, the book goes on to consider the medieval and early modern...
Political Islam in Europe and the Mediterranean
Three contributions
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Political Islam is becoming increasingly important to European politicians and policymakers. This research paper gathers together three edited papers from the event ‘The Atlantic Seminar: Understanding Political Islam’, organised by the CES and the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s...
Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism
Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
According to postmodern scholars, subjects are defined only through their relationship to institutions and social norms. But if we are only political people insofar as we are subjects of existing power relations, there is little hope of political transformation. To instigate change, we need to draw...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers...
2016 and Beyond
How Republicans Can Elect a President in the New America
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
“Whit Ayres provides both a diagnosis of the GOP's problems and a prescription for the cure. In plain language with do's and don'ts for Republican candidates and campaigns, Ayres has written the best analysis of current American politics I have read in years.” -- Charlie Cook,...
by Anthony M. Clohesy, Stuart Isaacs, Chris Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
This exciting new textbook presents a clear framework for students to understand how themes and issues in political thought have emerged and developed throughout the 20th Century.
Charting the progression from the preoccupation with the boundaries of the modern state, through to the current...
Revisioning The Political
Feminist Reconstructions Of Traditional Concepts In Western Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts most central to the tradition of political philosophy. The goal is nothing less than the construction...
Multiple Democracies in Europe
Political Culture in New Member States
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of democracy in Europe, with a focus on the new EU member states, and makes an important and original contribution to the debate on the future of European democracy.
Author Paul Blokker seeks to provide a critical reconceptualization of...
Political Evil in a Global Age
Hannah Arendt and International Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization.
In...