chapter 4 - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... philosophy as a tool to address contemporary social problems. I advance the view that Dewey actually employs a method of ideal theorizing in his poltical and social philosophy. This method has four steps: first, submit everyday experience critical reflection; second, clarify social problems by clear ...
... philosophy as a tool to address contemporary social problems. I advance the view that Dewey actually employs a method of ideal theorizing in his poltical and social philosophy. This method has four steps: first, submit everyday experience critical reflection; second, clarify social problems by clear ...
Political science and ecological restoration
... many different ecological systems or landscapes and be conducted both in urban (Platt 2006) and in rural areas. In urban areas, restoring to a certain reference point is difficult, but there are a number of restoration projects that seek to take account of both the natural and historical legacies of ...
... many different ecological systems or landscapes and be conducted both in urban (Platt 2006) and in rural areas. In urban areas, restoring to a certain reference point is difficult, but there are a number of restoration projects that seek to take account of both the natural and historical legacies of ...
Democratic Accountability in Service Delivery
... extent to which people can hold government officials to account for service delivery through democratic means. At the same time, the framework seeks to facilitate reform proposals aimed at improving existing accountability mechanisms or creating new ones. These reform proposals can address a range o ...
... extent to which people can hold government officials to account for service delivery through democratic means. At the same time, the framework seeks to facilitate reform proposals aimed at improving existing accountability mechanisms or creating new ones. These reform proposals can address a range o ...
The London Corresponding Society And The Ascension Of Popular
... abundance can be transported in a few weeks from America to England; where, with the present standing army, they may instantly reduce us to what they please. And can it be supposed that the Americans, being slaves themselves, and having been enslaved by us, will not, in return, willingly contribute ...
... abundance can be transported in a few weeks from America to England; where, with the present standing army, they may instantly reduce us to what they please. And can it be supposed that the Americans, being slaves themselves, and having been enslaved by us, will not, in return, willingly contribute ...
The History and Philosophy of Social Scienceee
... is not given a chapter or section of his own. Some important topics are neglected as well, most conspicuously perhaps the history of socialism. In outlining this book I had originally planned to devote a chapter to a survey of the political, sociological, and economic theories of socialism, and the ...
... is not given a chapter or section of his own. Some important topics are neglected as well, most conspicuously perhaps the history of socialism. In outlining this book I had originally planned to devote a chapter to a survey of the political, sociological, and economic theories of socialism, and the ...
Building counter cultures - Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses
... matters so that a rewrite of the scale that would be needed has become practically impossible. Because of this, I have chosen to let the text (and pagination) stand unchanged other than this foreword, and I am grateful to into-ebooks, a project which could easily have found a place in this thesis, f ...
... matters so that a rewrite of the scale that would be needed has become practically impossible. Because of this, I have chosen to let the text (and pagination) stand unchanged other than this foreword, and I am grateful to into-ebooks, a project which could easily have found a place in this thesis, f ...
Democratic Deliberation Procedures : Theoretical and Practical
... deliberative events that took place in the New Haven metropolitan area, organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the League of Women Voters aided by Yale’s Institutions for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas. Beginning ...
... deliberative events that took place in the New Haven metropolitan area, organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the League of Women Voters aided by Yale’s Institutions for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas. Beginning ...
A Multidisciplinary Introduction
... is this central 'mental' character of ideologies that has been studied much less than their social and political functions. Indeed, compared to those in the social sciences, and until today, detailed psychological studies of ideology are quite rare, or reduced to studies of political beliefs. In ord ...
... is this central 'mental' character of ideologies that has been studied much less than their social and political functions. Indeed, compared to those in the social sciences, and until today, detailed psychological studies of ideology are quite rare, or reduced to studies of political beliefs. In ord ...
Two Responses to Utopian Thought - MacSphere
... the ancients' conception of reason, they still believe that some men can use their reason to discover a natural standard by which we can judge existing political orders and construct better and more stable ones. Despite the fact that he is consciously attempting to create a realistic science of poli ...
... the ancients' conception of reason, they still believe that some men can use their reason to discover a natural standard by which we can judge existing political orders and construct better and more stable ones. Despite the fact that he is consciously attempting to create a realistic science of poli ...
electoral determinants of state repression in democracies
... across democracies, where more consensual systems tend to be associated with greater proportional representation in translation of votes into seats, and majoritarian democracies tend to be characterized by an overrepresentation of electoral winners, since a large percentage of votes will not always ...
... across democracies, where more consensual systems tend to be associated with greater proportional representation in translation of votes into seats, and majoritarian democracies tend to be characterized by an overrepresentation of electoral winners, since a large percentage of votes will not always ...
Univerzita Karlova v Praze
... Direct democracy is a form of democratic government in which people decide on policy initiatives instead of electing representatives to decide on their behalf. There are also politicians with powers in direct democracies, but they have different competences and areas of power and within system of mo ...
... Direct democracy is a form of democratic government in which people decide on policy initiatives instead of electing representatives to decide on their behalf. There are also politicians with powers in direct democracies, but they have different competences and areas of power and within system of mo ...
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... of local societies returned to the foreground; as did the idea that local communities are capable of ruling themselves with “direct” forms of democracy and thus seek to regain control of their own future. “Participation” is clearly a term that can encompass a broad range of phenomena: it may be dist ...
... of local societies returned to the foreground; as did the idea that local communities are capable of ruling themselves with “direct” forms of democracy and thus seek to regain control of their own future. “Participation” is clearly a term that can encompass a broad range of phenomena: it may be dist ...
What is the radical imagination
... delusion which perpetuate the status-quo. On the other, the ability to imagine the world, social institutions and human (and non-human) relationships otherwise is vital to any radical project. Indeed, as numerous commentators and theorists point out, we can’t do without the radical imagination, both ...
... delusion which perpetuate the status-quo. On the other, the ability to imagine the world, social institutions and human (and non-human) relationships otherwise is vital to any radical project. Indeed, as numerous commentators and theorists point out, we can’t do without the radical imagination, both ...
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.