Collected Works of Harold Laski: Democracy in crisis
Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780415161244
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Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780415161244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold J. Laski
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780415154529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415154529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780415161190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Laski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-04
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1351473433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timeless classic by Harold J. Laski explains the nature of the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by its history. The State in Theory and Practice is a work that grows in significance, rather than dwindles over time. This is because, as Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. points out, Laski helped develop and expound the foundational arguments of the political left.After the collapse of the Soviet Union, even on the hard left, few people thought of Marxism, at least in its classical formulation by Laski in the 1930s, as a political alternative. Much of the interest in Laski seeks to separate the early Laski of pluralist parliamentary arguments from the later Laski of Marxism. Laski's appeal rests on subtle aspects of his science of politics that require a detailed examination before their full significance can be understood. The state is a work that operates at several layers of assumptions and implications.The significance of Laski starts with the observation that among many intellectuals on the left, the political critique of liberal democracy remains as influential after the collapse of the Soviet Union as it was when Laski wrote. The leftist critique of classical liberalism is one of the touchstones of modern political thought and Laski remains part of that tradition. Laski is one of the links between what might be called the ""old left"" of the pre-World War II era and the ""new left"" of the 1960's and later.
Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780415161220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeff Miller
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2021-12-23
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 178836077X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 focused attention on the multiple threats facing contemporary liberal democracies. Beyond the immediate problem of Covid-19, the past two decades saw political polarization, a dramatic rise in inequality, global warming and other environmental threats, as well as the growth of dangerous cultural and political divisions. Western liberal democracies find themselves in the midst of what political theorists call a legitimation crisis: major portions of the population lack confidence in the ability of governments to address our most pressing problems. This distrust in government and traditional political parties opened the door to populist leaders and a rising tide of authoritarianism. Liberal democracies face major structural and normative challenges in the near future that require us to look beyond the traditional set of solutions available. Democracy in Crisis points back to the world's first democratic government, Ancient Athens, to see what made that political arrangement durable and resistant to both internal and external threats. The argument focuses on several distinctive Athenian institutions and practices, and considers how we might reimagine them in the modern world. The book addresses questions of civic ideology and institutions, with extended treatment of two distinctive Athenian institutions, ostracism and sortition.
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Published: 1933
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780415154529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415161237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Laski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-09
Total Pages: 5735
ISBN-13: 1317587014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set comprises works spanning Laski's career as a political thinker and the volumes re-issued here examine the questions of how government might be made more open and accountable and how the broad-based properity necessary to democracy might be assured. These remain central questions for both established and emerging democracies. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917), Authority in the Modern State (1919), and The Foundations of Sovereignty (1921) are all works which expand Laski's pluralist doctrine of the State; a theory then applied in modified form in A Grammar of Politics (1925). Communism (1927) argues against the concept of a Western Communist revolution. Democracy in Crisis (1933) and the more optimistic Reflections on the Constitution (1951) result from the defeat of Labour in 1931 and the onset of the Slump, at which point Laski rejected pluralism in favour of Marxist theory. Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (1949) predicts a "revolution by consent" arising from the common war-effort. Also included are An Introduction to Politics (1931), The Rise of European Liberalism (1936) Parliamentary Government in England (1938), The Danger of Being a Gentleman (1939), Programme for Victory (1941), The Strategy of Freedom (1942) and The Dilemma of Our Times (1952).