The meanings of monuments and memorials: toward a
... aware of this as a form of manipulation) one is prompted to follow the ‘instructions’ implicit in the architectural message; functions are not only signified but also promoted and induced. (Eco 1997: 196) However, designers can never fully predetermine the interpretation of the built environment, as ...
... aware of this as a form of manipulation) one is prompted to follow the ‘instructions’ implicit in the architectural message; functions are not only signified but also promoted and induced. (Eco 1997: 196) However, designers can never fully predetermine the interpretation of the built environment, as ...
The Sovereign and the Social: Arendt`s
... of society as monopolized by the state – there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society” (OT, 141). (This partly explains what one might call Arendt’s blindness to law.) But not only law is redefined through Hobbes’s description of the ...
... of society as monopolized by the state – there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society” (OT, 141). (This partly explains what one might call Arendt’s blindness to law.) But not only law is redefined through Hobbes’s description of the ...
Biopolitics An Advanced Introduction
... biopolitics must sharpen its analytical and critical profile against the blind spots and weak points of competing suggestions. My point of departure is the virtual polarization that is attached to the merger of life and politics entailed in biopolitics. Existing understandings differ with respect to ...
... biopolitics must sharpen its analytical and critical profile against the blind spots and weak points of competing suggestions. My point of departure is the virtual polarization that is attached to the merger of life and politics entailed in biopolitics. Existing understandings differ with respect to ...
Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of
... participation and local development. Many of these foundational points also hold in the rest of the volume, which make possible building a new framework that can span and join at least the three subfields of citizen participation: innovation in economic development, and arts and cultural activities ...
... participation and local development. Many of these foundational points also hold in the rest of the volume, which make possible building a new framework that can span and join at least the three subfields of citizen participation: innovation in economic development, and arts and cultural activities ...
Economic Policies of Heterogeneous Politicians ∗ ODILON C ˆ AMARA
... aging the public sector: She would then run an economy with a large, productive private sector and a smaller, low tax government. A right-wing incumbent who is relatively less competent at helping the private sector would do the opposite. These results cannot be derived in standard theoretical or e ...
... aging the public sector: She would then run an economy with a large, productive private sector and a smaller, low tax government. A right-wing incumbent who is relatively less competent at helping the private sector would do the opposite. These results cannot be derived in standard theoretical or e ...
David Hume and contemporary realism in political theory
... We have now everything in place to consider the structure of the paper. Chapter 2 is a description of the realist movement, such as it is advocated by Bernard Williams (2005), Raymond Geuss (2008) and William Galston (2010). More specifically, section 2.2 introduces the contemporary debate on ideal ...
... We have now everything in place to consider the structure of the paper. Chapter 2 is a description of the realist movement, such as it is advocated by Bernard Williams (2005), Raymond Geuss (2008) and William Galston (2010). More specifically, section 2.2 introduces the contemporary debate on ideal ...
Consociational Democracy: The Views of Arend Lijphart and
... number of hypotheses, Lijphart concludes that there are two factors, plus one indirect explanation and one comprehensive explanation. (Politics 1968, ch. 5) The two factors are firstly, the basic sense of nationalism among the members of all four blocs, which is reinforced by a few national symbols, ...
... number of hypotheses, Lijphart concludes that there are two factors, plus one indirect explanation and one comprehensive explanation. (Politics 1968, ch. 5) The two factors are firstly, the basic sense of nationalism among the members of all four blocs, which is reinforced by a few national symbols, ...
Clark Zahar - Critical Junctures
... juncture is the expansion of choices for powerful political actors. As Mahoney states, if there is no choice between alternatives, there is no critical juncture (2001, p.113). The peacebuilding literature implicitly identifies transitions from war to peace as precisely such junctures as they are ma ...
... juncture is the expansion of choices for powerful political actors. As Mahoney states, if there is no choice between alternatives, there is no critical juncture (2001, p.113). The peacebuilding literature implicitly identifies transitions from war to peace as precisely such junctures as they are ma ...
Subject and Subject position in Laclau`s discourse theory Allan
... Coming from the tradition of structural Marxism (Ernesto Laclau 1977; Althusser 1969a; Althusser and Balibar 1977)one of the most significant achievements of Laclau was to articulate a basic post-structuralist idea of subject-positions with a Lacanian theory of the subject beyond or before positioni ...
... Coming from the tradition of structural Marxism (Ernesto Laclau 1977; Althusser 1969a; Althusser and Balibar 1977)one of the most significant achievements of Laclau was to articulate a basic post-structuralist idea of subject-positions with a Lacanian theory of the subject beyond or before positioni ...
summary of recommendations
... charitable purposes. We contend that the role of a peak body in the charitable sector is not solely to secure the “viability of charitable organisations” but to contribute to the common purposes of charitable organisations, and to engage in sustained research, advocacy and policy development on beha ...
... charitable purposes. We contend that the role of a peak body in the charitable sector is not solely to secure the “viability of charitable organisations” but to contribute to the common purposes of charitable organisations, and to engage in sustained research, advocacy and policy development on beha ...
Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Civic Virtue
... The main objection of the defenders of perfectionism is that this limited neutrality still retains too much indifference towards the various conceptions of the good that citizens hold. Apart from serious violations of legal norms, the government does not see good reason to interfere with the lives o ...
... The main objection of the defenders of perfectionism is that this limited neutrality still retains too much indifference towards the various conceptions of the good that citizens hold. Apart from serious violations of legal norms, the government does not see good reason to interfere with the lives o ...
2012 Frankfurt 8
... Ideologie und Utopie overlapped with figures also found in racist and ultra-political denunciations of the time and of the Nazi era, they are best understood as interpretative models of the “conservative” and Mandarin type that was by no means reserved to protoFascist or harshly anti-Semitic current ...
... Ideologie und Utopie overlapped with figures also found in racist and ultra-political denunciations of the time and of the Nazi era, they are best understood as interpretative models of the “conservative” and Mandarin type that was by no means reserved to protoFascist or harshly anti-Semitic current ...
The Clash of Cartoons? The Clash of Civilizations?
... of a theory and a methodology of ‘visual securitization’. This article can thus be seen as a response to Michael C. Williams’ call for ‘an examination of the ways in which images themselves may function as communicative acts, an analysis of how meaning is conveyed by images, as well as an assessment ...
... of a theory and a methodology of ‘visual securitization’. This article can thus be seen as a response to Michael C. Williams’ call for ‘an examination of the ways in which images themselves may function as communicative acts, an analysis of how meaning is conveyed by images, as well as an assessment ...
... the narrower question of the sources of intolerance toward a specific civil liberties dispute. While a number of studies examine "focused intolerance" towards specific target groups, none employs longitudinal data and so are limited in their ability to examine the relative impact of the key predicto ...
A Physics Solution to the Hardest Problem in Social Science
... political science: what is the nature of human conflicts? What is the human natural in the new framework of quantum politics? What is the physics nature of human free wills? How to apply PLSS to solve political problems? After these most fundamental questions of political science are answered with ...
... political science: what is the nature of human conflicts? What is the human natural in the new framework of quantum politics? What is the physics nature of human free wills? How to apply PLSS to solve political problems? After these most fundamental questions of political science are answered with ...
conceptual analysis and research design for politologists
... academic and intellectual ferment of Weimar Germany and the new Austrian republic. Out of this combination grew the discipline’s most enduring contribution to the practice of politics—the study of political opinion by random surveys of mass publics. There is hardly a polity today whose politicians d ...
... academic and intellectual ferment of Weimar Germany and the new Austrian republic. Out of this combination grew the discipline’s most enduring contribution to the practice of politics—the study of political opinion by random surveys of mass publics. There is hardly a polity today whose politicians d ...
hegemony, radical democracy, populism
... of such attempts at generating order – through hegemonization – can be introduced. Precisely because the fact of heterogeneity mean that orders are always failed and identities within them always deficient, hegemony is never definitively established, but better understood as a process. Thus conceive ...
... of such attempts at generating order – through hegemonization – can be introduced. Precisely because the fact of heterogeneity mean that orders are always failed and identities within them always deficient, hegemony is never definitively established, but better understood as a process. Thus conceive ...
THE GROUP IN PLURALIST IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS
... different sources motivated by a variety of concerns . Scholars of liberal or Marxist theoretical persuasion, political party strategists, state advisers demonstrate, in different forms, a marked interest in minorities . For some critical scholars for example, minorities, and in particular cultural ...
... different sources motivated by a variety of concerns . Scholars of liberal or Marxist theoretical persuasion, political party strategists, state advisers demonstrate, in different forms, a marked interest in minorities . For some critical scholars for example, minorities, and in particular cultural ...
Liberalism and nationalism
... political developments into the twenty-first century and remain a concern of contemporary liberal political theorists such as Hayek, Berlin, Rawls, Taylor Miller and Tamir who wrestle with the extent to which they are complimentary or antithetical. There have certainly been liberal philosophers in t ...
... political developments into the twenty-first century and remain a concern of contemporary liberal political theorists such as Hayek, Berlin, Rawls, Taylor Miller and Tamir who wrestle with the extent to which they are complimentary or antithetical. There have certainly been liberal philosophers in t ...
Political Economy and the `Modern View` as reflected in the History
... when… there was a ‘liberal’ or ‘socialist’ or ‘mercantilist’ theory, and all those theories more or less meant political doctrines or at least practical recommendations. This is not the modern view. The modern economist considers theory simply as an instrument of research”. But how exactly did this ...
... when… there was a ‘liberal’ or ‘socialist’ or ‘mercantilist’ theory, and all those theories more or less meant political doctrines or at least practical recommendations. This is not the modern view. The modern economist considers theory simply as an instrument of research”. But how exactly did this ...
Conservatives, liberals, and “the negative”
... Hence (to generalize), the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a negative (threat) for liberals and a positive for conservatives; teaching creationism in the public schools is a negative (threat) for liberals and a positive for conservatives; denial of the right to same-sex marriage is a negative (threat) ...
... Hence (to generalize), the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a negative (threat) for liberals and a positive for conservatives; teaching creationism in the public schools is a negative (threat) for liberals and a positive for conservatives; denial of the right to same-sex marriage is a negative (threat) ...
module guide 2010/11 - University of Warwick
... Weekly lectures provide a general overview of the subject matter of the module. In addition, in terms of the essays on declining turnout in British elections and project reports on the effectiveness of pressure groups, they provide an in-depth analysis of some of the key issues arising in relation t ...
... Weekly lectures provide a general overview of the subject matter of the module. In addition, in terms of the essays on declining turnout in British elections and project reports on the effectiveness of pressure groups, they provide an in-depth analysis of some of the key issues arising in relation t ...
CHAPTER 8: Public Opinion
... ordinary people and against the corruption of those in power. It's not always geniuine, however. The trustee model allows government officials more freedom of choice to decide what is in the public interest. Government officials are not expected to act solely upon public opinion. The trustee model o ...
... ordinary people and against the corruption of those in power. It's not always geniuine, however. The trustee model allows government officials more freedom of choice to decide what is in the public interest. Government officials are not expected to act solely upon public opinion. The trustee model o ...
capitalism, contextualisation and the political theory of possessive
... is shared by the relevant audience. It needs to be evidence based. At the very least, this requires the kind of intellectual history conducted by proponents of the so-called ‘Cambridge School’. Without an understanding of the dominant intellectual context, we cannot know what social assumptions are ...
... is shared by the relevant audience. It needs to be evidence based. At the very least, this requires the kind of intellectual history conducted by proponents of the so-called ‘Cambridge School’. Without an understanding of the dominant intellectual context, we cannot know what social assumptions are ...