Category: History Theory

By Ikuo Kabashima, Lynn T. White

ISBN-10: 0691076987

ISBN-13: 9780691076980

Political procedure and alter comprises articles at the analytic different types political scientists have built for knowing the 3rd global. Many essays during this anthology are concise summaries of later books which are now well-known landmarks within the examine of comparative politics.

Originally released in 1986.

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By Peter S. Donaldson

ISBN-10: 0521345464

ISBN-13: 9780521345460

This booklet stories the intersection of sacred and secular conceptions of kingship within the Renaissance. The ebook records intimately six situations of the try and attach Machiavelli's inspiration to an old and mystery culture of political suggestions, the arcana imperii, or mysteries of country. The ways that Renaissance writers tried this sort of connection assorted broadly. as well as rigorously interpreting those arguments, the booklet files styles of their dissemination. via his reference to mysteries of nation, Machiavelli stimulated not just Renaissance political principles, however the transmission of those principles. Machiavellian politics used to be a mystery paintings; its automobiles, often mystery books; and its authors and readers, sharers in a secret.

By Maurizio Viroli

ISBN-10: 0521333423

ISBN-13: 9780521333429

ISBN-10: 0521531381

ISBN-13: 9780521531382

This e-book stories a relevant yet hitherto overlooked element of Rousseau's political suggestion: the idea that of social order and its implications for the proper society which he envisages. The antithesis among order and sickness is a basic subject in Rousseau's paintings, and the writer takes it because the foundation for this examine. against this with a commonly held interpretation of Rousseau's philosophy, Professor Viroli argues that common and political order are under no circumstances a similar for Rousseau. He explores the variations and interrelations among the differing kinds of order which Rousseau describes, and indicates how the thinker developed his ultimate doctrine of the simply society, which are established in simple terms on each citizen's voluntary and understanding recognition of the social agreement and at the advertising of advantage above ambition. the writer additionally indicates the level of Rousseau's debt to the republican culture, and peculiarly to Machiavelli, and revises a dead ringer for Rousseau as a disciple of the natural-law university.

By James Livingston

ISBN-10: 0415930294

ISBN-13: 9780415930291

On the flip of the century, a battery of recent highbrow and cultural currents got here jointly to reorient society - Progressivism, Pragmatism, feminism, labour activism, and buyer tradition. during this paintings, Livingston reads philosophers like John Dewey along activists like Jane Addams and reveals of their rules an analogous and novel feel of the individual's position on the planet. through drawing new connections among those advancements, Livingston recasts dialogue of the arriving of modernity.

By Ahmet Cavuldak, Oliver Hidalgo, Philipp W. Hildmann, Holger Zapf

ISBN-10: 3531198327

ISBN-13: 9783531198323

ISBN-10: 3531198335

ISBN-13: 9783531198330

Der Islam zählt heute zu den größten Herausforderungen für den demokratischen Rechtsstaat. Außenpolitisch stehen die Transformationsprozesse in der arabischen Welt, innenpolitisch die Integration muslimischer Migranten im Fokus. Die Angst vor einer fundamentalistischen Unterwanderung der Demokratie sowie die oft schwer zu ziehende Grenze zwischen Islam und Islamismus sorgen in der Öffentlichkeit für Verunsicherung. Nur selten wird der Islam als demokratieaffiner Faktor wahrgenommen. Der Band legt in diesem schwierigen Forschungsfeld fundierte und differenzierte Expertisen vor. Er reflektiert die Komplexität des Verhältnisses von Demokratie und Islam, taxiert Chancen und Risiken und gleicht vorhandene Befunde ab. Dabei wird geprüft, welchen Beitrag islamische Demokratievorstellungen in der Debatte leisten und ob die westlichen Gesellschaften ihrerseits zur Neubestimmung der Beziehung zwischen Politik und faith gezwungen sind.

By Blair Turner

ISBN-10: 1475829000

ISBN-13: 9781475829006

A accomplished, well timed, and exciting account of the political, cultural, and financial dynamics of greater than thirty discrete international locations of the Western Hemisphere, this booklet is up-to-date every year, delivering scholars with the latest info attainable. the data is gifted in an goal, balanced, non-ideological context, permitting the readers to formulate their very own critiques. as well as analyzing person nations, the booklet perspectives Latin the United States as a mosaic sector as an entire and emphasizes its starting to be impression at the international level. along with supplying actual and well timed info at the ancient and political forces that experience formed each one kingdom, it additionally examines the top cultural figures and forces, from eighteenth-century writers to twentieth-century composers and making a song stars to twenty-first-century filmmakers and actors. ultimately, it describes the social and financial demanding situations that proceed to afflict this fascinating and rising area.

By Donald R. McAdams

ISBN-10: 0807738840

ISBN-13: 9780807738849

An account of the reform of a big American city tuition district, this article makes a speciality of the battles over energy, jobs, contracts, taxes and race.

By Aaron Gillette

ISBN-10: 041525292X

ISBN-13: 9780415252928

Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the function performed through race and racism within the improvement of Italian identification in the course of the fascist interval. The ebook examines the fight among Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial character that might achieve extensive popularity in Italy.
This publication can be of curiosity to historians, political scientists occupied with the improvement of fascism and students of race and racism.

By Ira Katznelson, Gareth Stedman Jones

ISBN-10: 0521766540

ISBN-13: 9780521766548

The speculation of secularisation turned an almost unchallenged fact of twentieth-century social technological know-how. First sketched out by means of Enlightenment philosophers, then reworked into an irreversible international strategy by way of nineteenth-century thinkers, the speculation was once given substance through the precipitate drop in spiritual perform throughout Western Europe within the Sixties. besides the fact that, the re-emergence of acute conflicts on the interface among faith and politics has confounded such assumptions. it truly is transparent that those principles has to be rethought. but, as this wonderful, overseas staff of students show, no longer every thing inside the suggestion of secularisation used to be fake. Analyses of advancements in view that 1500 exhibit a large spectrum of historic approaches: partial secularisation in a few spheres has been observed by means of sacralisation in others. making use of new techniques derived from heritage, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays accumulated in faith and the Political mind's eye supply new methods of pondering the urgency of spiritual matters within the modern global.

By Leonidas Donskis

ISBN-10: 9042032774

ISBN-13: 9789042032774

This quantity is an try and reconsider Niccolò Machiavelli, the most demanding political thinkers within the background of eu political notion. In 2013, we are going to mark 500 years given that Machiavelli wrote his difficult letter to Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Principe. This e-book is an activity to hide the most advanced elements of Machiavelli's existence and paintings