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Politics
About: Politics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 263762 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5388913 citations.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The authors argue that to understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations.
Abstract: Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations.Philosophy and Real Politics both outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice. The book is a trenchant critique of established ways of thought and a provocative call for change.
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01 Jan 1997TL;DR: Ertman as discussed by the authors argues that the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Abstract: For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.
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24 Mar 2005
TL;DR: Jackson, Richard, writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp.viii + 232 RAE2008 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Jackson, Richard, Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp.viii + 232 RAE2008
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TL;DR: Lakoff as discussed by the authors analyzes political discussion to find that the family - especially the ideal family - is the most powerful metaphor in politics, revealing how family-based moral values determine views on such diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programmes, and the environment.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: A Theory of Exit Options, Boundary Building, and Political Structuring as mentioned in this paper is a theory of exit options, boundary building, and political structuring for the European Union, which is based on the experience of the 'nation state'.
Abstract: 1. A Theory of Exit Options, Boundary Building, and Political Structuring 2. Structuring Europe: The Experience of the 'Nation State' 3. Centre Formation in the European Union 4. The Political Production of the EU: Boundary Building and Boundary Removing 5. Political Structuring in Loosely Bounded Territories: Territorial and Corporate Structures 6. Electoral Representation in Loosely Bounded Territories: Mass Politics in the EU? 7. Restructuring Europe
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