Political Science category: 78432 books
by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 7,5 from max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), course: United Nations International Students Conference in Amsterdam 2001, 10 entries in the bibliography, language:...
Political Illiberalism
A Defense of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book deconstructs the story of liberalism that John Rawls, author of Political Liberalism, and many others have put forward. Peter L.P. Simpson argues that political liberalism is despotic because it denies to politics a concern with the comprehensive human good; political illiberalism overcomes...
Europe at the Crossroads
Will Europe cut off its roots and wings or reconcile with its strength?
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This book is about Europe: Its rich cultural, philosophical, political and religious heritage, and its wonderful contributions to the world. But also about some of its dark sides; historical and present developments that were and are threatening its own and the future of others. Which turn will Europe...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: 1,00, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: Governance is more than an extensively used buzzword of social science literature over the last 20 years. Even though its manifestations have actually...
by Greg Mclellan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
The post-war fifty-four year reign of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party demonstrated the conservative attitude of its political structures and reluctance to relinquish its traditional Bushido hierarchy. The traditionalist behaviour exhibited during Japan’s imperial expansion was later manifested...
The State and Security in Mexico
Transformation and Crisis in Regional Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply embedded in society was being pulled out, with new political leaders allowing market forces to play a greater role in guiding the nation’s economic development,...
Political Ontology and International Political Thought
Voiding a Pluralist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation...
by Anthony C. Patton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
'The Political Spectrum' sets out to identify the timeless, universal principles of political philosophy that shape how we live as a society, from democracy in Ancient Greece and the aristocracies of the Enlightenment to the tribal lands of Pakistan and the modern state that is the United States of America....
by Mahendra Prasad Singh, Veena Kukreja
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics;...
Autonomy and Identity
The Politics of Who We Are.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Autonomy and Identity are key concepts in both political and feminist thought and have played central roles in both fields. Although there has been much academic work on both concepts there has arguably been little that has addressed the connections between autonomy and identity.
Autonomy and...
Nation-Building and Citizenship
Studies of Our Changing Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nation-Building and Citizenship examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community. Reinhard Bendix directs our attention to relations established between individual and state during nation-building. While the development of citizenship and the interplay...
Foundation of Political Freedom in the Democracy of Nigeria
The 21St Century Approach to Civil Progress and Political Democracy in the Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Growth and Development of Multiple Political Party Systems in Nigeria In the present Nigeria, there are so many active, goal-oriented political parties that have grown with the interest of the people at heart. Political party system is the peoples best choice for supporting democratic government....
Democratic Ideals and the Politicization of Nature
The Roving Life of a Feral Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to revitalize the disruptive, critical, and exploratory nature of democratic culture. By learning from the traditions of aimless walking and by embracing a consciously feral method of political...
Political Theology
Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.
Focusing on...