Centrist democratic ideologies

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism.

How divergent campus cultures affect conservative college studentsConservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones.

This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic.

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

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.

This book claims that in addition to autonomy, liberal tradition recognizes human flourishing as an ideal of the good life.

'A lively and well-researched history and critique' - Jonathan Steele, former Chief Foreign Correspondent for the GuardianSince its inception in Manchester in 1821 as a response to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, the Guardian has been a key institution in the definition and development of liberalism.

This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s.

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

This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the reproduction of social power.

Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens.

The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the threats to national survival and sovereignty from 'uncontrolled' immigration.

The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign.

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

Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world.

Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development brings international contributors together in order to consider economic, political, social and legislative aspects of China's modernization.

Der indische Seiltrick fokussiert auf einen wichtigen, aber gefährlich ignorierten Defekt des modernen politischen Denkens, nämlich den unvorsichtigen Gebrauch und den Missbrauch von Sprache.

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.

This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration.

Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II.

The concept of "e;authenticity"e; enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called "e;cultural authenticity"e;).

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way.

The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply.

How self-directed democratic schooling builds fulfilling lives and can lead the way back to a civilized society Education is ripe for democratic disruption.

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.

Since it first came into existence, antitrust law has become progressively more technical both in its form and in its manner of enforcement.

The diverse coalition of forces that came to be known as the Liberal party dominated British politics in the period between 1830 and 1886.

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative.

Isaiah Berlin is well known as a defender of liberal democracy in the Cold War.

Conservatives use great stories to prescribe government policy.

Since the late 1980s the changing dynamic of global development has driven the tide of democratic expansion in the developing world.

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.

In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell from politicians and scholars to trade unionists and grass roots activists.

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.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building.

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.

The current context of developed societies is characterised by a number of phenomena, the most significant of which are processes of economic globalisation, information technologies, increasing multiculturalism and the emergence of cases of national pluralism which require full political accommodation both within democracies and in the international sphere.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building.

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond.

Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship.

The chapters in this book analyze the relationship between core concepts of the common good and the work of American political philosopher John Rawls.

As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia.

The scope of affirmative obligation is a point of contention among liberals.

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

This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder - the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership between China and Russia - and asks why so many assumptions about how the world might look after the Cold War - liberal, democratic and increasingly global - have proven to be so wrong.