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Author: Thomas G. West
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-03
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 110714048X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.
Author: Donald S. Lutz
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1992-09-03
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0700605460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn't do. It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In short, it doesn't provide an overview of the content, development, or major conclusions of American political theory. What it does do is provide "a pre-theoretical analysis of how to go about studying questions like the ones above-how to conceptualize the project, how to proceed in looking for answers, how to avoid the logical traps peculiar to the study of American political theory." Lutz sets out to emancipate American political theorists from empiricism and inappropriate European theories and methadologies. The end result is to establish the foundation for the systematic study of American behavior, institutions, and ideas; to provide a general introduction to the study of American political theory; and to illustrate how textual analysis, history, empirical research, and analytic philosophy are all part of the enterprise. Designed for students and scholars in all disciplines, including political science, history, and legal studies, A Preface to American Political Theory doesn't provide answers to central continuing issues in American political theory. Rather, it provides an effective, sophisticated entree into the study of American political theory. Readers will be armed with the intellectual tools to engage in systematic study and makes them aware of the pitfalls they will inevitably encounter.
Author: Garrett Ward Sheldon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-02-13
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780801871061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the history of Madison's thought to his early education in Protestant theology, Sheldon argues that it was a fear of the potential "tyranny of the majority" over individual rights, along with a firmly Calvinist suspicion of the motives of sinful men, that led him to support a constitution creating a strong central government with power over state laws. In this way, Madison aimed to protect individual liberties and provide checks to "spiteful" human interests and selfish parochial prejudices.
Author: Charles Edward Merriam
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vincent Ostrom
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780739121207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Theory of a Compound Republic presents the essential logic of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton's design of limited, distributed, constitutional authority proposed inThe Federalist. Two revised and expanded ensuing chapters show how the idea of constitutional choice has been employed since the adoption of the 1789 Constitution of the United States. A new concluding chapter questions commonly accepted beliefs about sovereign nation-states and considers governance from the perspective of twenty-first century 'citizen-sovereigns.'
Author: Ronald J. Pestritto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780742515178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the political principles of Woodrow Wilson that influenced his presidency and the impact he had on United States and the progressive movement.
Author: Alin Fumurescu
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1108489184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of primary sources from the founding period covers the unique combination of theoretical influences in American political thought.
Author: Bryan-Paul Frost
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 1498558704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America. This new second edition of the book includes chapters on several additional historical figures, including Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ronald Reagan, as well as a new chapter on Barack Obama, who was not prominent in public life when the first edition was published. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original chapters, most notably on Antonin Scalia, which now updates his full legacy, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.
Author: Leigh K. Jenco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1139488929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocratic political theory often sees collective action as the basis for non-coercive social change, assuming that its terms and practices are always self-evident and accessible. But what if we find ourselves in situations where collective action is not immediately available, or even widely intelligible? This book examines one of the most intellectually substantive and influential Chinese thinkers of the early twentieth century, Zhang Shizhao (1881–1973), who insisted that it is individuals who must 'make the political' before social movements or self-aware political communities have materialized. Zhang draws from British liberalism, democratic theory, and late-Imperial Confucianism to formulate new roles for effective individual action on personal, social, and institutional registers. In the process, he offers a vision of community that turns not on spontaneous consent or convergence on a shared goal, but on ongoing acts of exemplariness that inaugurate new, unpredictable contexts for effective personal action.
Author: Melvin L. Rogers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 771
ISBN-13: 022672607X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, whose works are addressed by scholars such as Farah Jasmin Griffin, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Dawson, Nick Bromell, Neil Roberts, and Lawrie Balfour. While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.
