Penn State University Press: 456 books
by Todd May
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1994
The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and...
Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America
The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.
In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is...
Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention
A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles...
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings...
The Chankas and the Priest
A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru?
In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de Albadán, a Spanish priest to the Chanka...
Imagining the American Polity
Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime....
Democratization Without Representation
The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When countries become more democratic, new opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But democratization does not ensure better representation for everyone, and indeed some sectors of society are ill-equipped to take advantage of...
The Time of Popular Sovereignty
Process and the Democratic State
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this...
Constitutive Visions
Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of...
Creating the Constitution
The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1993
Creating the Constitution presents a different interpretation of the Convention and the First Congress, derived largely from a close reading of Farrand's Records and the Annals of Congress. Among its special features are a critical perspective on the Framers, an examination of Court Whig influence...
by Andrew Selee
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, many countries in Latin America freed themselves from the burden of their authoritarian pasts and developed democratic political systems. At the same time, they began a process of shifting many governmental responsibilities from the national to the...
Feudal America
Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods argue that the answer to these questions cannot be found among...
Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1993
Michel Foucault introduced a new form of political thinking and discourse. Rather than seeking to understand the grand unities of state, economy, or exploitation, he tried to discover the micropolitical workings of everyday life that have often founded the greater unities. He was particularly concerned...
Sex, Culture, and Justice
The Limits of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to participate in practices of sexual inequality—cosmetic surgery, gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive...