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Playing Fair
Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two. In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger aims to fill this gap and provide a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that...
by Christian Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 1,0, University of Tartu (Center of Baltic Studies), course: Post-communist transition and Estonian experience, 29 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction...
by Itzhak Galnoor, Dana Blander
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
There is growing interest in Israel's political system from all parts of the world. This Handbook provides a unique comprehensive presentation of political life in Israel from the formative pre-state period to the present. The themes covered include: political heritage and the unresolved issues that...
Party Systems and Cleavage Structures in Southern Africa
Determinants of Party Success and Failure in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
For the interaction of society and political parties within the electoral system in southern Africa, it is necessary to systematically investigate the social structures (cleavage analysis) and measure the success or failure of political parties against the backdrop of the election programmes (manifesto...
Woman President
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting...
Democracy and Ontology
Agonism between Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly...
Collective Dreams
Political Imagination and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate...
by Raghuveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The present work is a collection of essays/articles, mainly on political theory written by Professor Raghuveer Singh, who was an eminent scholar of political philosophy, well-known in India and abroad. A highly original thinker and a mighty stalwart of classical political thought, his articles cover...
A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration
Memory and policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the speech and deeds of European founders.
Using a fresh and innovative approach, this monograph connects political theory with concrete political practices based on empirical evidence, and theorizes the internal process of European...
Is Political Philosophy Impossible?
Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Political philosophy seems both impossible to do and impossible to avoid. Impossible to do, because we cannot agree on a single set of political principles. Impossible to avoid, because we're always living with some kind of political system, and thus some set of principles. So, if we can't do the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of both “realist peace” and...
by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. It has received relatively little attention but is well worth examining for its explanatory and normative dimensions....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Selecting candidates for elections is a major goal of political parties and a major function of political regimes in democratic systems. With the negative effects of the economic crisis being seen to translate into changes in voting patterns, and citizens using elections to punish parties in government...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
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Via 99 entries or "mini-chapters," the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on political science highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates...