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Conceptualizing Politics

Author : Furio Cerutti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317037502

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Politics is hugely complex. Some try to reduce its complexity by examining it through an ideological worldview, a one-size-fits-all prescriptive formula or a quantitative examination of as many 'facts' as possible. Yet politics cannot be adequately handled as if it were made of cells and particles: ideological views are oversimplifying and sometimes dangerous. Politics is not simply a moral matter, nor political philosophy a subdivision of moral philosophy. This book is devised as a basic conceptual lexicon for all those who want to understand what politics is, how it works and how it changes or fails to change. Key concepts such as power, conflict, legitimacy and order are clearly defined and their interplay in the state, interstate and global level explored. Principles such as liberty, equality, justice and solidarity are discussed in the context of the political choices confronting us. This compact and systematic introduction to the categories needed to grasp the fundamentals of politics will appeal to readers who want to gain a firmer grasp on the workings of politics, as well as to scholars and students of philosophy, political science and history.

The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion

Author : Christopher Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136643613

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This book explores the frameworks underlying different notions of democracy, and how these influence political decisions.

Political Participation in a Changing World

Author : Yannis Theocharis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351394606

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In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to systematically study new forms of political participation without losing track of more conventional political activities.

Conceptualizing International Practices

Author : Alena Drieschova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316511391

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This book provides new directions for international practice theory, demonstrating its key strengths and benefits as an innovative research perspective.

Toward Nationalizing Regimes

Author : Diana T. Kudaibergenova
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0822987570

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The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this comparative study, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy. What explains this difference in approaching nation-building after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What can a study of two very different trajectories of development tell us about the nature of power, state and nationalizing regimes of the ‘new’ states of Eurasia? Toward Nationalizing Regimes finds surprising similarities in two such apparently different countries—one “western” and democratic, the other “eastern” and dictatorial.

Measuring Democracy

Author : Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801890934

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Drawing on years of academic research on democracy and measurement and practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the author presents constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies that promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. He makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. He has developed two instruments for quantifying and qualifying democracy: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS.

Political Innovation and Conceptual Change

Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1989-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521359788

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This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.

Political Analysis

Author : Colin Hay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230629113

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Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

Conceptualizing the World

Author : Helge Jordheim
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1789200377

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What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “world,” “globe,” or “earth” instead suggest something limited and absolute. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume concerns itself with this central paradox: that the complex, heterogeneous, and purportedly transhistorical dynamics of globalization have given rise to the idea and reality of a finite—and thus vulnerable—world. Through studies of illuminating historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth, each contribution helps to trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

The Struggle with Time. 2nd edition

Author : Kari Palonen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 382589293X

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"The author presents in this volume a synthesis of his long-term studies on the conceptual history of politics. He offers a rhetorical history of the horizons of conceptualizing politics an activity in terms of nine topoi: irregularity, judgment, policy, deliberation, commitment, contestation, possibility, situation and play & game. He both constructs a schema for conceptualization of the spectrum of activities that are called politics and applies it to British, French and German debates on the concept since the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.