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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This book focuses on the idea of a modus vivendi as a way of governing political life and addressing problems characterized by pluralism or deep-rooted diversity. The individual essays illustrate both the merits and the limitations of a political theory of modus vivendi; how it might be interpreted...
by B.P. Dauenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays draws together work done during a period of more than fifteen years. In the course of these years much has changed, including much about politics. Patterns of political activity have been trans formed. Ways in which we had been accustomed to construe politics have been...
Teachers of the People
Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising that observers on the left and right have called...
Narratives of Justice
Legislators' Beliefs about Distributive Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Narratives of Justice offers a provocative, contemporary look at the timeless questions of justice and fairness. Using face-to-face interviews, Grant Reeher plumbs the minds of legislators for their beliefs about distributive justice and attempts to discover the ways in which those beliefs influence...
by Mark Blacksell
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his seminal paper The Geographical Pivot of History demonstrating the central position of political geography in the study of geography as a whole; a century later and political geography is still at the heart of human geography.
Yet over time political...
After Sovereignty
On the Question of Political Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror',...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This collection is concerned with two fundamental concepts of social science– power and emotion. Power permeates all human relationships and is constitutive of social, economic, and political life. It stands at the centre of social and political theorizing, and its study has enriched scholarship...
Extending Political Liberalism
A Selection from Rawls's Political Liberalism, edited by Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These core values have never been more critical as anxiety grows over...
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy
Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This is the fourth 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...
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998
Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998 is the second part of the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Alan H. Levy explores the political life of one of the most important women in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. This second part takes up Abzug’s life from the point...
Political Tone
How Leaders Talk and Why
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone.
In Political Tone,...
by Peter Natchez
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowledge would be created. Applied to the study of voting behavior, survey research promised an understanding of the factors determining the outcome of an election,...
by M. Hakan Yavuz
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of questions both in Turkey and in the West: Does the party harbor a secret Islamist agenda? Will the new government...