Author : Geneviève Rousselière
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316517551
Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
Author : Karl Kautsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 900439284X
Once deemed ‘the pope of Marxism’, Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas were gradually consigned to near oblivion. Not only has his political thought been dismissed in non-Marxist historical and political discourse, but his ideas are equally discredited in Marxist circles. This book aims to rekindle interest in Kautsky’s ideas by exploring his democratic-republican understanding of state and society. It demonstrates how Kautsky’s republican thought was positively influenced by Marx and Engels – especially in relation to the lessons they drew from the experience of the Paris Commune. Listen to Ben Lewis discuss the book on [this podcast] by LINKSE HOBBY.
Author : Andreas Niederberger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0748677615
This book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences, and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics. Contributors include Philip Pettit, John Ferejohn, Raine
Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191577650
No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises. This book is a short account of the history of the doctrine and practice of democracy, from ancient Greece and Rome through the American, French, and Russian revolutions, and of the usages and practices associated with it in the modern world. It argues that democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for good government, and that ideas of the rule of law, and of human rights, should in some situations limit democratic claims. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Gerald Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107024161
Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107022282
Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.
Author : David L. Hanley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571813374
According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining historical research and contemporary political science theory about party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system, which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.
Author : Sandra M. Gustafson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226311295
Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. Though the U.S. Constitution made deliberation central to republican self-governance, the ethical emphasis on group deliberation often conflicted with the rhetorical focus on persuasive speech. From Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideas about the deliberative basis of American democracy through the works of Walt Whitman, John Dewey, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., Gustafson shows how writers and speakers have made the aesthetic and political possibilities of deliberation central to their autobiographies, manifestos, novels, and orations. Examining seven key writers from the early American republic—including James Fenimore Cooper, David Crockett, and Daniel Webster—whose works of deliberative imagination explored the intersections of style and democratic substance, Gustafson offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language can contribute to political life.
Author : Philip Pettit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198290837
This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Political Theory series, Pettit's eloquent and compelling account opens with an examination of the traditional republican conception of freedom as non-domination, contrasting this with established negative and positive views of liberty. The first part of the book traces the rise and decline of this conception, displays its many attractions, and makes a case for why it should still be regarded as a central political ideal. The second part of the book looks at what the implementation of the ideal would require with regard to substantive policy-making, constitutional and democratic design, regulatory control and the relation between state and civil society. Prominent in this account is a novel concept of democracy, under which government is exposed to systematic contestation, and a vision of state-societal relations founded upon civility and trust. Pettit's powerful and insightful new work offers not only a unified, theoretical overview of the many strands of republican ideas, but also a new and sophisticated perspective on studies in related fields including the history of ideas, jurisprudence, and criminology.
Author : Geoffrey C. Kellow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442637498
On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political engagement and identity."
