Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability
Author: Theres Matthieß
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 3031542916
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Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions
Author: E. Naurin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-14
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0230319300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This 'Pledge Puzzle' guides Naurin in her analysis of the often referred to but not empirically investigated, 'conventional wisdom' about election promises.
The Anthropology of Parliaments
Author: Emma Crewe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1000182312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; how parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and how politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Region demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations.
The Political Marketing Game
Author: J. Lees-Marshment
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0230299512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political marketing, drawing on 100 interviews with practitioners. It also shows that authenticity, values and vision are as much a part of a winning strategy as market-savvy pragmatism.
Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001
Author: Lise Rakner
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9789171065063
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A Critique of Adjudication [fin de Sicle]
Author: Duncan Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780674039520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major statement from one of the foremost legal theorists of our day, this book offers a penetrating look into the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decision making. It is also the first sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law, an uneasy balance of deep commitment and intense skepticism, with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy, and psychology. At the center of this work is the question of how politics affects judicial activity-and how, in turn, lawmaking by judges affects American politics. Duncan Kennedy considers opposing views about whether law is political in character and, if so, how. He puts forward an original, distinctive, and remarkably lucid theory of adjudication that includes accounts of both judicial rhetoric and the experience of judging. With an eye to the current state of theory, legal or otherwise, he also includes a provocative discussion of postmodernism. Ultimately concerned with the practical consequences of ideas about the law, A Critique of Adjudication explores the aspects and implications of adjudication as few books have in this century. As a comprehensive and powerfully argued statement of a critical position in modern American legal thought, it will be essential to any balanced picture of the legal, political, and cultural life of our nation.
The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature
Author: Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Publisher:
Published: 1716
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rise of Eurocentrism
Author: Vassilis Lambropoulos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0691201811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine the controversy surrounding education, Eurocentrism, and cultural politics.
Hamilton's Paradox
Author: Jonathan Rodden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0521842697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs new federations take shape and old ones are revived around the world, a difficult challenge is to create incentives for fiscal discipline. By combining theory, quantitative analysis, and historical and contemporary case studies, this book lays out the first systematic explanation of why decentralized countries have had dramatically different fiscal experiences. It provides insights into current policy debates from Latin America to the European Union, and a new perspective on a tension between the promise and peril of federalism that has characterized the literature since The Federalist Papers.
Closing of the American Mind
Author: Allan Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1439126267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
