Centrist democratic ideologies

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

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

Bestselling author Stephen Prothero addresses the question of "e;Whose America is this,"e; by exploring American political discourse and the significant texts that make up the living history of the American people.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats.

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Tom Waldman's lively and sweeping assessment of the state of American liberalism begins with the political turbulence of 1968 and culminates with the 2006 takeover of Congress by the Democratic Party.

Smith demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated themes.

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

This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs.

In this book, David Jarrett argues that the influential Lockean thesis of justice in property, which traces back to John Locke, seems to entail much egalitarian property redistribution.

Harmony has become a major challenge for modern governance in the twenty-first century because of the multi-religious, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character of our increasingly globalized societies.

First published in 1998, this volume offers some solutions to the inherent difficulties with moving from philosophical generalities to specific policies, by exploring how a bridge might be built between political philosophy and social policy analysis.

Denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and the discipline itself.

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic.

This book presents a challenge to connections many commentators make between liberal democracy and economic development.

First Published in 2004.

This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.

The hard-hitting and provocative first book from the fastest-rising conservative voice in the countrySean Hannity is the hottest phenomenon in TV and talk radio today.

When I speak of liberal Protestants, I have in mind those Protestants who feel free to depart from classical Protestantism (the Protestantism of the Reformers) in order, as they see it, to keep Christianity in step with the best of secular wisdom--a secular wisdom that often includes attacks on Christianity.

Examines liberalism''s invisible, yet influential status, in modern Iranian political and intellectual discourses.

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles.

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research.

The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.

Explores the possibilities of constitutionalism from diverse theoretical and comparative perspectives, particularly those from outside liberal and Anglo-European paradigms.

While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today.

By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda.

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

In the wake of health and economic crises across the world, solidarity is emerging as both a moral imperative and urgent social goal.

Nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs im Jahr 1989 fegte ein kapitalistischer Sturm über die Welt.

John Locke is widely perceived as a foundational figure within the liberal tradition.

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Across the world political liberalism is being fought for, consolidated and defended.

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony.

Keeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which the living are governed by the dead.

Friedrich Hayek was a founding figure of the neo-liberalism that flourished in the 1980s.

Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it.

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott's analysis of the logic of historical enquiry.

This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present.

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

Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people.

Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world.

Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has been increasingly interrogated and contested.

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between liberalism and the Spanish monarchy over the long nineteenth century in any language.

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa?

This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective.