Centrist democratic ideologies

Reinhold Niebuhr was a theologian, writer, and public intellectual who influenced religious leaders and social activists in the United States over four crucial decades in the middle of the twentieth century.

Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science, psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of contemporary liberal capitalist society and the increasingly febrile culture we occupy when it comes to matters of harm.

This volume explores the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America, ranging from how judges are selected to the bench to how they rule when they get there.

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy.

How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious.

One of the keywords of our time, 'globalization' frames how we understand our interconnected world.

Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945.

Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms.

In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of ecclesiology.

With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis.

This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today.

Liberalism is a crucially important topic today; this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to its history.

Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders; Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away.

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together.

Compares authoritarian Morocco and democratizing Tunisia to examine whether autocracies make fundamentally different immigration policies than democracies.

Nathan Gerard draws upon the pathbreaking insights of pediatrician and psychoanalyst D.

The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the nations demographics shift away from its core constituentsolder white middle-class Christians.

This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946).

Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault.

A major question for liberal politics and liberal political theory concerns the proper scope of government.

Europe is often discussed in the context of crisis, usually economic or political.

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs.

The notion that we are experiencing a change in times, whereby an old global order is giving way to a new one, has been gaining legitimacy in international debates.

This book considers how vulnerability theory provides the basis for a reconceptualization of the liberal ideas of autonomy, equality, and freedom.

Contemporary societies are riddled with moral disputes caused by conflicts between value claims competing for the regulation of matters of public concern.

This edited volume addresses the set of politically challenging issues that the advent of populist movements raised for individual nation states and the whole Europe.

More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition.

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the work of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), one of the towering intellectual figures of nineteenth century France.

This book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed.

Unequivocal Justice challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free market regimes are inconsistent with the basic principles of liberal egalitarian justice.

Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community.

Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes.

The book investigates the intersection of citizenship, civil society, and development in today's global world.

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures.

Drawing on Husserl's concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence - the life-world.

In Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson bring together ten essays by scholars from a wide range of fields in English studies in order to interrogate the complex, entangled relationship between the history of literature and the history of liberalism.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution publicationAnalysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between "e;red states"e; and "e;blue states.

The Dead Centertakes an acerbic and often ribald eye to contemporary politics, particularly those of mainstream liberals in the United States.

Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America.

'The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism' explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas.

The Polycentric Republic presents a compelling and innovative critique of modern social contract theory.

Liberalism: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to liberalism.

Inspired by Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, this book examines the unconscious processes shaping contemporary political ideologies.

Winner of the 2015 Award for Concept Analysis in Political ScienceAmerican political science has been widely but loosely identified as a liberal science.

The book draws on International Relations Theory and International Law to study the humanisation of global politics especially within security discourses.

Since the nineteenth century, Greek financial and economic crises have been an enduring problem, most recently engulfing the European Union and EU member states.