Political category: 85882 books
Democracy and Pluralism
The Political Thought of William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and...
German Political Philosophy
The Metaphysics of Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This collection explores the political philosophy and theory foundations for educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. The first section, "Political Philosophy: The Foundations," discusses the work of such writers as...
by Erik Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society. Australia’s neoliberal corporate security state in seen to represent the emergence of a post-democratic order, whereby minds and bodies...
Struggle in the Andes
Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963–1964. Several hundred peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes occupied neighboring haciendas in an attempt to retake lands they felt had been stolen from them over the years. Hacienda peasants...
A Political Philosophy in Public Life
Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would...
by Carl Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A pioneer in legal and political theory, Schmitt traces the prehistory of political romanticism by examining its relationship to revolutionary and reactionary tendencies in modern European history. Both the partisans of the French Revolution and its most embittered enemies were numbered among the...
Contemporary Chinese Political Thought
Debates and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Westerners seem united in the belief that China has emerged as a major economic power and that this success will most likely continue indefinitely. But they are less certain about the future of China's political system. China's steps toward free market capitalism have led many outsiders to expect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy. Over the last thirty years or so, liberals have tended to analyze religion under proximate categories such as 'conceptions of the good' (in debates about neutrality) or 'culture'...
The Political Process in Canada
Essays in Honour of R. MacGregor Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
The influence of the late R. MacGregor Dawson on political thought in Canada is still with us and will, indeed, be with us for a long time to come. It is fitting therefore that a book should be conceived in his honour and that this book should reflect the high qualities of analysis and writing that...
Repugnant Laws
Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment of partisan fervor, the Supreme Court’s routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a...
Political Representation
Roles, representatives and the represented
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect citizens’ views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work. However, real-life democracies do not meet this ideal and citizens’ policy preferences and priorities are mirrored only inadequately.
This book provides new insights...
Political Engagement of the Young in Europe
Youth in the crucible
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of young people is stable and increasingly expressed through non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics.
This book makes a key contribution to this discussion by...