Political science and theory

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The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day.

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of law and order, referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons.

This revised and updated edition identifies the cultural factors and specific administrative agendas that have shaped the way we view ballistic missile technology.

Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world.

With the People's Consent explores Howard Baker's ability to lead the United States Senate at a time when it was divided by partisanship and ideology.

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality.

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas.

This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders.

The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong.

The New Scientist recently declared that "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come"e; and even Barack Obama has warned of an "e;epistemological crisis.

Do our political systems and democracies really reflect the complex reality of the 21st century?

Why has nationalism come roaring back?

Tanto para las tradicionales ciudades fundamentales como para las municipalidades emergentes, la diplomacia de las ciudades provee una oportunidad de relación con dignatarios extranjeros y la posibilidad de recibir importantes beneficios.

Why do "e;peace-loving"e; religions so often cause instability, conflict, and violence?

Now in its twelfth edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the book's tradition of offering a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world.

In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.

Este libro reúne trabajos de la unidad de investigación y discusión en torno a la obra temprana de Emmanuel Lévinas, conformada en 2007 y enmarcada en 2009 en el proyecto "Figuras de la subjetividad y la trascendencia en el pensamiento de Emmanuel Lévinas", del Programa de Reconocimiento Institucional de Equipos de Investigación de la facultad de filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, mayo de 2009 a mayo de 2011, y también, a partir de 201 O, la indagación en torno del problema del liberalismo político en la obra temprana de Emmanuel Lévinas, presentándose dos años después (2012) el proyecto de investigación La cuestión del liberalismo político en los escritos tempranos de Emmanuel Lévinas: reflexiones en torno a la corporalidad, la afectividad y la temporalidad, inscripto también en el mismo Programa, periodo 2012-2014.

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them.

Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death.

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world.

Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership?

The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork.

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?

For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate.

We often talk loosely of the "e;tyranny of the majority"e; as a threat to the workings of democracy.

At a time of deep political divisions, leaders have called on ordinary Americans to talk to one another: to share their stories, listen empathetically, and focus on what they have in common, not what makes them different.

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements.

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context.

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics.

Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold.

Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties.

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence.

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit-they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present.

Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the idea-the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that exists under its sway.

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.

A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning.

Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints.

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade.

Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D.

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M.

Until the eighteenth century, Western societies were hierarchical ones.

What is the opposite of freedom?

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation.

In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K.

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy.

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses of problems we still face.