Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
... pp. 73–5) and Benhabib as a general moral theory based on a discursive model of validity (Benhabib, 1996, p. 70). However, in both cases ideal fairness provides a standard for assessing only the procedure, that is, the formal conditions of participation and argumentative exchange operating in actual ...
... pp. 73–5) and Benhabib as a general moral theory based on a discursive model of validity (Benhabib, 1996, p. 70). However, in both cases ideal fairness provides a standard for assessing only the procedure, that is, the formal conditions of participation and argumentative exchange operating in actual ...
towards a new strategy - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
... induced from the EU. Trinidad NOGUERA argues for an emancipation of social democracy itself from its historical complexes and for embarking on an international mission with an objective to promote new world order based on true multilateralism. “Next Left – Towards a New Strategy” provides a solid sy ...
... induced from the EU. Trinidad NOGUERA argues for an emancipation of social democracy itself from its historical complexes and for embarking on an international mission with an objective to promote new world order based on true multilateralism. “Next Left – Towards a New Strategy” provides a solid sy ...
ARguments for Socialism - Democratic Socialist Alliance
... Matgamna contends that class struggle is vital in order to realise socialism, but his primary perspective is based on the progressive dynamics of the advance of a complex economic alternative within capitalism. Hence he maintains: “The working class, in aspiring to own the great enterprises produce ...
... Matgamna contends that class struggle is vital in order to realise socialism, but his primary perspective is based on the progressive dynamics of the advance of a complex economic alternative within capitalism. Hence he maintains: “The working class, in aspiring to own the great enterprises produce ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
... has such a cultural approach been present in the other social sciences that have concerned themselves with modern or contemporary life. In the history of the social sciences there has always been a sociology of culture. Whether it had been called the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of art, the ...
... has such a cultural approach been present in the other social sciences that have concerned themselves with modern or contemporary life. In the history of the social sciences there has always been a sociology of culture. Whether it had been called the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of art, the ...
THE MORAL DIMENSION OF THOMASS HOBBES POLITICAL
... moral behavior. From this perspective, morality is neither objective nor transcendent it is the pragmatic and culture dependent expression of a set of neural systems that have evolved to allow our navigation of complex human social systems. (www.wiringthebrain. Com/2011/06/where-domorals-come- from- ...
... moral behavior. From this perspective, morality is neither objective nor transcendent it is the pragmatic and culture dependent expression of a set of neural systems that have evolved to allow our navigation of complex human social systems. (www.wiringthebrain. Com/2011/06/where-domorals-come- from- ...
KAZAKHSTAN: TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY?
... post-Soviet Kazakhstan? It is a case study on the concept of democracy adopted by Kazakhstan: is it the Western style or something different? A nation cannot be examined apart from its past since many historical factors determine a nation’s “today”. Therefore, first part of the work is devoted to th ...
... post-Soviet Kazakhstan? It is a case study on the concept of democracy adopted by Kazakhstan: is it the Western style or something different? A nation cannot be examined apart from its past since many historical factors determine a nation’s “today”. Therefore, first part of the work is devoted to th ...
International Relations, Political Theory and the problem of Order
... Relations Theory’, usually referred to in the inevitable shorthand of the modern academy as ‘IR theory’, and, as always, the best way to learn a subject is to teach it and doing so was a wonderful introduction to the way ‘IR theory’ has/had traditionally been taught. Initially, I was—I have to admit ...
... Relations Theory’, usually referred to in the inevitable shorthand of the modern academy as ‘IR theory’, and, as always, the best way to learn a subject is to teach it and doing so was a wonderful introduction to the way ‘IR theory’ has/had traditionally been taught. Initially, I was—I have to admit ...
Readings on Research Design (CT 3/4/00)
... Darrow, David (2001): “From Commune to Household: Statistics and the Social Construction of Chaianov’s Theory of Peasant Economy,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43: 788-818. Dening, Greg (1992): Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language. Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni ...
... Darrow, David (2001): “From Commune to Household: Statistics and the Social Construction of Chaianov’s Theory of Peasant Economy,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43: 788-818. Dening, Greg (1992): Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language. Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni ...
`New Politics` of the Bismarckian Welfare State
... exercise in blame avoidance, for two reasons. First, because the costs of austerity measures are concentrated while the gains are diffuse; and second because the reaction of the public to cutbacks (losses) and gains is asymmetric: they are more sensitive to the first than to the second. From an inst ...
... exercise in blame avoidance, for two reasons. First, because the costs of austerity measures are concentrated while the gains are diffuse; and second because the reaction of the public to cutbacks (losses) and gains is asymmetric: they are more sensitive to the first than to the second. From an inst ...
Burke`s Prejudice - Society of Catholic Social Scientists
... practical lives seems to be of this sort. Indeed, why should we assume that knowledge held as prejudice is held irrationally? Might there not be a certain presumption of truth in the very reality of custom and tradition?19 Burke and Kirk after him ever considered the prejudices of people, if truly f ...
... practical lives seems to be of this sort. Indeed, why should we assume that knowledge held as prejudice is held irrationally? Might there not be a certain presumption of truth in the very reality of custom and tradition?19 Burke and Kirk after him ever considered the prejudices of people, if truly f ...
Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of
... from Tocqueville/Putnam to stress the context and rules of the game within which local participants operate. As we look at more precise comparative data from many countries, we find that participation often fails to work as theorized by Tocqueville and documented by Putnam. Still, rather than reject ...
... from Tocqueville/Putnam to stress the context and rules of the game within which local participants operate. As we look at more precise comparative data from many countries, we find that participation often fails to work as theorized by Tocqueville and documented by Putnam. Still, rather than reject ...
From James Monroe and the Quing Dynasty to George W
... Is democracy in general better at generating economic prosperity than dictatorship?1 Can people have political freedom and a growing economy at the same time? Some argue that this best of all possible worlds-scenario is unrealistic. The “Lee-thesis” (Sen, 1999:15), credited to former Singaporean PM ...
... Is democracy in general better at generating economic prosperity than dictatorship?1 Can people have political freedom and a growing economy at the same time? Some argue that this best of all possible worlds-scenario is unrealistic. The “Lee-thesis” (Sen, 1999:15), credited to former Singaporean PM ...
A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Islamists on
... linguistic means and communicative skills generally viewed as resources. The context of resources provides an understanding of why some individuals, but not others, have access to these resources and how inequalities result between those who possess them and those who do not. Indeed, Blommaert (2005 ...
... linguistic means and communicative skills generally viewed as resources. The context of resources provides an understanding of why some individuals, but not others, have access to these resources and how inequalities result between those who possess them and those who do not. Indeed, Blommaert (2005 ...
SD Draft_feb28_compl.. - University of Colorado Boulder
... cause of civil conflict. Civil wars are more common in societies with low income (See, for example, Fearon and Laitin, 2003). Poverty itself cannot provide a reasonable explanation of why groups resort to violent conflict. Economic misery and poverty are ubiquitous, but only a few countries see viol ...
... cause of civil conflict. Civil wars are more common in societies with low income (See, for example, Fearon and Laitin, 2003). Poverty itself cannot provide a reasonable explanation of why groups resort to violent conflict. Economic misery and poverty are ubiquitous, but only a few countries see viol ...
Perceiving Political Polarization in the United States: Party Identity
... scale endpoints of each issue. The bottom panel of Table 1 presents the years in which each issue was measured and the sample size for each issue in each year. For example, respondents in 2004 read (for Issue G): Some people think the government should provide fewer services, even in areas such as h ...
... scale endpoints of each issue. The bottom panel of Table 1 presents the years in which each issue was measured and the sample size for each issue in each year. For example, respondents in 2004 read (for Issue G): Some people think the government should provide fewer services, even in areas such as h ...
HDR 2004, background paper, Dirks
... the same neighborhoods as well. By the middle of the eighteenth century, markets in interior India had been significantly penetrated by a wily alliance of trading activity and merchant political power; by the early nineteenth century, the China trade not only began to determine mercantile as well as ...
... the same neighborhoods as well. By the middle of the eighteenth century, markets in interior India had been significantly penetrated by a wily alliance of trading activity and merchant political power; by the early nineteenth century, the China trade not only began to determine mercantile as well as ...
State (polity)
A state is an organized political community living under a single system of government. Speakers of American English often use state and government as synonyms, with both words referring to an organized political group that exercises authority over a particular territory. States may or may not be sovereign. For instance, federated states that are members of a federal union have only partial sovereignty, but are, nonetheless, states. Some states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state. The term ""state"" can also refer to the secular branches of government within a state, often as a manner of contrasting them with churches and civilian institutions.Many human societies have been governed by states for millennia, but many have been stateless societies. The first states arose about 5,500 years ago in conjunction with the rapid growth of urban centers, the invention of writing, and the codification of new forms of religion. Over time a variety of different forms developed, employing a variety of justifications for their existence (such as divine right, the theory of the social contract, etc.). In the 21st century the modern nation-state is the predominant form of state to which people are subject.