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The Primacy of Politics

Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457594
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Politics written by Sheri Berman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.

Thinking About the Presidency

Author : William G. Howell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165688
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Thinking About the Presidency written by William G. Howell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the search for power defines the American presidential office All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power—acquiring, protecting, and expanding it. While individual presidents obviously have other concerns, such as shaping policy or building a legacy, the primacy of power considerations—exacerbated by expectations of the presidency and the inadequacy of explicit powers in the Constitution—sets presidents apart from other political actors. Thinking about the Presidency explores presidents' preoccupation with power. Distinguished presidential scholar William Howell looks at the key aspects of executive power—political and constitutional origins, philosophical underpinnings, manifestations in contemporary political life, implications for political reform, and looming influences over the standards to which we hold those individuals elected to America's highest office. Howell shows that an appetite for power may not inform the original motivations of those who seek to become president. Rather, this need is built into the office of the presidency itself—and quickly takes hold of whoever bears the title of Chief Executive. In order to understand the modern presidency, and the degrees to which a president succeeds or fails, the acquisition, protection, and expansion of power in a president's political life must be recognized—in policy tools and legislative strategies, the posture taken before the American public, and the disregard shown to those who would counsel modesty and deference within the White House. Thinking about the Presidency assesses how the search for and defense of presidential powers informs nearly every decision made by the leader of the nation. In a new preface, Howell reflects on presidential power during the presidency of Barack Obama.

Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political

Author : Véronique M. Fóti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331956160X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political written by Véronique M. Fóti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology. These objectives support each other, in that Taminiaux's own intellectual itinerary brought him increasingly to an affirmation of the importance of the political. Divided into four sections, the essays contained in this volume engage with different aspects of the political dimension of phenomenology: its dialogue with classic texts of political philosophy, the political facets of phenomenological praxis, phenomenology’s contribution to actual political debates, and the impact of Taminiaux’s work in the shaping of phenomenology’s notion of politics. The phrase “the primacy of the political” echoes the “primacy of perception” as it was famously defined by Merleau-Ponty. This book emphasizes, however, the inescapability of the political rather than its “foundational” character, i.e. the fact that various itineraries of thought, explored in different fields of phenomenological research, give rise to politically relevant reflections. It points out and elucidates political connotations that haunt phenomenological concepts, such as ‘world’, ‘self’, ‘nature’, ‘intersubjectivity, or ‘language’, and traces them to a broad range of approaches, concepts, and methods. In its explorations, the book discusses a broad range of thinkers, including, but not limited to, Aristotle and Kant, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Arendt.

States of Development

Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745608433
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book States of Development written by Adrian Leftwich and published by Polity. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere. Some societies, such as Botswana, Mauritius, Malaysia and Korea, are successfully transforming the material life of the majority of their citizens, though not always without costs in terms of human rights. Others, such as Peru, Zaire, India and the Philippines, appear incapable of doing so. In this widely comparative study, Adrian Leftwich examines why this has happened. Focusing on the politics and states of a wide range of developing societies, Leftwich generates a model of the 'developmental state' as a particular sub-type of state in the modern world, and argues the case for the primacy of politics in development. He challenges a number of contemporary orthodoxies in western overseas development policy, especially the current insistence that democracy is a necessary condition for development. States of Development will be essential reading for students and scholars in development studies and politics.

Government: A Public Administration Perspective

Author : Jos C. N. Raadschelders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317469437
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Government: A Public Administration Perspective written by Jos C. N. Raadschelders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most public administration texts overly compartmentalize the subject and don't interconnect the various specializations within government, which leaves a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Government: A Public Administration Perspective is designed to fill that void. It provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of government that includes perspectives from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, economics, and history. The text draws on classic and modern literature from all these areas to analyze government at four different levels - ideational, societal, organizational, and individual layers. It links public administration's various subfields - human resource management, budgeting, policy making, organizational theory, etc. - into a holistic framework for the study of government. It also includes an extensive bibliography drawing from American and European literature in support of the book's global, historical, and comparative approach.

Italy - A Contested Polity

Author : Martin Bull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317968093
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Italy - A Contested Polity written by Martin Bull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the promise of the new "Second Republic" launched in the early 1990s, Italy remains Europe’s least well-governed country. Fifteen years ago, politicians on the take and mafiosi on the make were supposedly pushed aside by a new generation of reformers and crusading magistrates. However, in this new book a team of leading experts on Italy uncovers little real progress. Badly needed reforms have foundered on bickering between the parties and their ego-centric leaders. Both left and right-wing coalitions have been guilty of impeding the anti-corruption revolution. Little has been done to improve the quality of public expenditure: infrastructure and education systems remain shambolic, and decades of periodic devaluation and deficit spending have left the economy structurally weakened. Italy’s politicians are not just masters of trasformismo (an ability to reinvent and present themselves anew to voters), but of stratificazione, or "layering", the introduction of new policies and institutions without replacing those that preceded them. The result is a damaging mix of obsolete and contradictory legislation, the product of bargaining over reform by chronically weak governments in a veto-ridden polity. The outcome – immobilismo – is a system in which all parties, and democratic government itself, are steadily losing legitimacy. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

The Foundations and Future of Public Law

Author : Elizabeth Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198845243
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations and Future of Public Law written by Elizabeth Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, leading figures in UK and EU public law address seismic changes the field and reflect upon the implications of these changes, the fundamentals of public law, and the interrelationship between them across six themes: legislation, case law, theory, institutions, process, and constitutions.

American Social and Political Thought

Author : Andreas Hess
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814736579
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book American Social and Political Thought written by Andreas Hess and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, comprehensive primer on modern American social and political thought is the ideal introduction to the rich intellectual tradition of the United Sates. Andreas Hess helps the reader to understand of American culture and politics through careful exploration of key and theorists. In the first half of the book he focuses on the core traditions of American social and political thought American exceptionalism, Calvinist Protestantism, republicanism, liberalism and 20th century pragmatism. The second half of the book applies these traditions to a broad range of 20th century conditions and issues power and democracy, justice and injustice, multiculturalism and pluralism, civil society, social theory and the role of the intellectual. The works of some of the most influential figures in the field, such as De Tocqueville, Lipset, Arendt, Hartz, Pocock, Dewey, Moore, Rawls, Walzer, Rorty and Alexander, are drawn upon to illustrate the theories and issues being discussed. Accessibly written and jargon free, this treatment will be useful for students and scholars alike.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

Author : Michel Rosenfeld
Publisher : American Chemical Society
ISBN 13 : 0199578613
Total Pages : 1417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law written by Michel Rosenfeld and published by American Chemical Society. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 1417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference resource on comparative constitutional law, this title examines the history and development of the discipline, its core concepts, institutions, rights, and emerging trends.

Regarding Politics

Author : Harry Eckstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520328752
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Regarding Politics written by Harry Eckstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

The Foundations of the EU as a Polity

Author : Massimo Fichera
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785363905
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of the EU as a Polity written by Massimo Fichera and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, Massimo Fichera provides an original account of European integration as a process. He argues that European constitutionalism has been informed from its earliest stages by a meta-rationale, which is expressed by security and fundamental rights as discourses of power. Employing this descriptive and normative conceptual framework to analyse the development of the EU as a polity, chapters cover significant recent events such as the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, the rule of law crisis, Brexit and the constitutional identity crisis.

The Misguided Search for the Political

Author : Lois McNay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745681158
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Misguided Search for the Political written by Lois McNay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to ‘real’ politics. Echoing these debates, Lois McNay examines in this book some theories of radical democracy and argues that they too tend to rely on troubling abstractions - or what she terms ‘socially weightless’ thinking. They often propose ideas of the political that are so far removed from the logic of everyday practice that, ultimately, their supposed emancipatory potential is thrown into question. Radical democrats frequently maintain that what distinguishes their ideas of the political from others is the fundamental concern with unmasking and challenging unrecognized forms of inequality and domination that distort everyday life. But this supposed attentiveness to power is undermined by the invocation of rarefied models of political action that treat agency as an unproblematic given and overlook certain features of the embodied experience of oppression. The tendency of radical democrats to define democratic agency in terms of dynamics of perpetual flux, mobility and agonism passes over too swiftly the way in which objective structures of oppression are often taken into the body as subjective dispositions, leaving individuals with the feeling that they are unable to do little more than endure a state of affairs beyond their control. Drawing on the work of Adorno, Bourdieu and Honneth, amongst others, McNay argues that in order to make good the critique of power, radical democratic theory should attend more closely to a phenomenology of negative social experience and what it can reveal about the social conditions necessary for effective political agency.

Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

Author : Jesse Covington
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739173235
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought written by Jesse Covington and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural law has long been a cornerstone of Christian political thought, providing moral norms that ground law in a shareable account of human goods and obligations. Despite this history, twentieth and twenty-first-century evangelicals have proved quite reticent to embrace natural law, casting it as a relic of scholastic Roman Catholicism that underestimates the import of scripture and the division between Christians and non-Christians. As recent critics have noted, this reluctance has posed significant problems for the coherence and completeness of evangelical political reflections. Responding to evangelically-minded thinkers’ increasing calls for a re-engagement with natural law, this volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical rapprochement with natural law. Many of the chapters are optimistic about an evangelical re-appropriation of natural law, but note ways in which evangelical commitments might lend distinctive shape to this engagement.

Political System and Change

Author : Ikuo Kabashima
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854466
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Political System and Change written by Ikuo Kabashima and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political System and Change includes articles on the analytic categories political scientists have developed for understanding the Third World. Many essays in this anthology are concise summaries of later books that are now famous landmarks in the study of comparative politics. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Government

Author : Thomas N. Ingram
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765635570
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Government written by Thomas N. Ingram and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most public administration texts overly compartmentalize the subject and don't interconnect the various specializations within government, which leaves a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Government: A Public Adminstration Perspective is designed to fill that void. It provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of government that includes perspectives from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, economics, and history. The text draws on classic and modern literature from all these areas to analyze government at four different levels--ideational, societal, organizational, and individual layers. It links public administration's various subfields--human resource management, budgeting, policy making, organizational theory, etc.--into a holistic framework for the study of government. It also includes an extensive bibliography drawing from American and Europen literature in support of the book's global, historical, and comparative approach.

Elements of Morality Incluiding Polity

Author : William Whewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Morality Incluiding Polity written by William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Radical Green Political Theory

Author : Alan B. Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415203098
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Radical Green Political Theory written by Alan B. Carter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first systematic, comprehensive and cogent environmental political philosophy. It will be of enormous value to all those with an interest in the environment, political theory, and moral and political philosophy.