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41 produkter
Democracy's Values
Av Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón
Häftad, 1999
569 kr
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Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too …
The Idea of the State
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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For a half-century or more, political theory has been characterized by a pronounced distrust of metaphysical or ontological speculation. Such a disposition has been sharply at odds with influential currents in post-war philosophy - both analytic and continental - where metaphysical issues have …
Rejecting Rights
Av Sonu Bedi
Inbunden, 2009
1295 kr
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The language of rights is ubiquitous. It shapes the way we construct our debates over issues such as abortion, affirmative action and sexual freedom. This provocative new study challenges the very concept of rights, arguing that they jeopardize our liberty and undermine democratic debate. By …
Stories of Peoplehood
The Politics and Morals of Political Membership
Häftad, 2003
422 kr
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How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that promise economic or political power and define political allegiances in religious, cultural, racial, …
Democracy Defended
Av Gerry Mackie
Häftad, 2003
748 kr
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Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful …
Justice without Borders
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Patriotism
Av Kok-Chor Tan, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
557 kr
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The cosmopolitan idea of justice is commonly accused of not taking seriously the special ties and commitments of nationality and patriotism. This is because the ideal of impartial egalitarianism, which is central to the cosmopolitan view, seems to be directly opposed to the moral partiality …
Violence and Democracy
Av John Keane
Häftad, 2004
455 kr
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In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually …
Democracy's Edges
Av Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón
Inbunden, 1999
1450 kr
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Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics, are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too …
Democracy's Values
Av Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón
Inbunden, 1999
1481 kr
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Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too …
Democracy's Edges
Av Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón
Häftad, 1999
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics, are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too …
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
Inbunden, 2000
1041 kr
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In Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism Brooke Ackerly demonstrates the shortcomings of contemporary deliberative democratic theory, relativism and essentialism for guiding the practice of social criticism in the real, imperfect world. Drawing theoretical implications from the activism of …
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
Av Brooke A. Ackerly, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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In Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism Brooke Ackerly demonstrates the shortcomings of contemporary deliberative democratic theory, relativism and essentialism for guiding the practice of social criticism in the real, imperfect world. Drawing theoretical implications from the activism of …
The Politics of Moral Capital
Av John Kane
Inbunden, 2001
1593 kr
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It is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people's positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens …
The Politics of Moral Capital
Av John Kane, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
569 kr
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It is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people's positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens …
Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection
Häftad, 2006
422 kr
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A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to …
Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Av Sarah Song
Häftad, 2007
557 kr
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Justice, Gender and the Politics of Multiculturalism explores the tensions that arise when culturally diverse democratic states pursue both justice for religious and cultural minorities and justice for women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian …
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics
Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of …
After Identity
Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual …
Rejecting Rights
Av Sonu Bedi
Häftad, 2009
422 kr
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The language of rights is ubiquitous. It shapes the way we construct our debates over issues such as abortion, affirmative action and sexual freedom. This provocative new study challenges the very concept of rights, arguing that they jeopardize our liberty and undermine democratic debate. By …
Cosmopolitan Regard
Political Membership and Global Justice
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, …
Cosmopolitan Regard
Political Membership and Global Justice
Inbunden, 2010
927 kr
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Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, …
Multicultural Jurisdictions
Cultural Differences and Women's Rights
Av Ayelet Shachar, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1628 kr
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Is it possible for the state simultaneously to respect deep cultural differences and to protect the hard-won citizenship rights of vulnerable group members, particularly women? This 2001 book argues that it is not only theoretically needed, but also institutionally feasible. Rejecting prevalent …
Multicultural Jurisdictions
Cultural Differences and Women's Rights
Av Ayelet Shachar, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
569 kr
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Is it possible for the state simultaneously to respect deep cultural differences and to protect the hard-won citizenship rights of vulnerable group members, particularly women? This 2001 book argues that it is not only theoretically needed, but also institutionally feasible. Rejecting prevalent …
De-Facing Power
Inbunden, 2000
1481 kr
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In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a 'face', she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, …
De-Facing Power
Av Clarissa Rile Hayward, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a 'face', she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, …
Stories of Peoplehood
The Politics and Morals of Political Membership
Inbunden, 2003
1744 kr
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How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that promise economic or political power and define political allegiances in religious, cultural, racial, …
Global Civil Society?
Av John Keane, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1260 kr
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John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies …
Democracy Defended
Av Gerry Mackie
Inbunden, 2003
2068 kr
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Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful …
Justice without Borders
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Patriotism
Av Kok-Chor Tan, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1513 kr
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The cosmopolitan idea of justice is commonly accused of not taking seriously the special ties and commitments of nationality and patriotism. This is because the ideal of impartial egalitarianism, which is central to the cosmopolitan view, seems to be directly opposed to the moral partiality …
Violence and Democracy
Av John Keane
Inbunden, 2004
781 kr
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In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually …
