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Discusses the prospects and methods of human political survival. This book presents the central theme in the context of problems which cause most anxiety: the mounting arms race, the unstable balance of power, the rapid growth of population, racial conflicts and ideological incompatibilities.
Offers an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy. This book presents case histories of the actual relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in democratic societies. It is suitable for students of sociology, political science and public administration.
Focuses on the nature of direct action in relation to contemporary movements, and considers the role of direct action methods in past campaigns for constitutional and social rights. This study examines boycotts, sit-ins, obstructions, civil disobedience and other unconstitutional forms of protest to see whether they necessarily lead to violence.
John F Kennedy's presidency was among the most eventful and significant in American history. This book illustrates and explain why this is so. It suggests possible lines of discussion and inquiry that can accompany a study of the documents.
Aware of the similarities within differences which mark British and American political systems, this book presents the student with a systematic, integrated, sustained Anglo-American political analysis.
Discusses the characteristics of authority relationship, whether political authority differs from other kinds of authority, how authority relates to power and whether authority should be distinguished from the concept of legitimate rule. This book considers which models of authority are relevant in a democratic and rationalist society.
Assesses such issues as - Trotsky's incapacity for concrete analysis, the 'economism' he shares with Stalin, and his concepts of 'permanent revoluation' as compared with those of Lenin and Mao, his views and those of Stalin, on the Chinese Revolution, the fundamental traits of Trotskyism and of the different trotskyist organizations.
This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx's teaching on his followers.
It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years. The Politics of the Labour Party provides simply the most authoritative analysis of the longer-term tensions which lie behind the immediacy of day-to-day events.
Dr. Borkenau discusses the ideals of international socialism in the light of the realities of a world of strife and struggle.
The main theme of this book is the relationship between capital and government in Britain, particularly the practice and organisation of capital in both national and local political processes. The chapters are primarily empirical in focus and deal with such topics as power, policy and the City of London and the role of the CBI in representing capital.
These essays relate philosophical questions about the meaning and justification of toleration to debates about such issues as religious freedom, racial discrimination, pornography and censorship.
This volume analyzes the meaning of the term 'sovereignty' in early twentieth century thought by tracing the historical roots of the doctrine and surveying the origin of it back to feudal times.
Originally published in 1972. The main theme of this book is the complex relationship between government servants and the world around them and this is explored in a number of ways. The essays include studies of the people who played an important part in the development of 19th century government.
This volume consists of many of Lacordaire's writings on social and political issues, many of which have been out of print for a long time and some of which appeared in this volume, when originally published, for the time in English. The central theme of the book is that the Christian solution of all the great social and political problems is liberal and democratic.
Presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli's career and writings. This English translation.
The return to the "ancestral constitution" was a major issue in Athenian politics in the period of the revolution of 411 and 404 B.C. This book examines the scope and import of the question of the "ancestral constitution".
What is the nature of political judgement? This book examines Kant's concept of taste and Aristotle's concept of prudence, as well as the works of political philosophy by Arendt, Gadamer and Habermas, crucially influenced by Kant and Aristotle.
Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, Plato has been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. This book features Plato who appears as himself - a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left.
This presentation of the main phases and features of political thought in the sixteenth century is based on an exhaustive study of contemporary writings in Latin, English, French, German and Italian.
This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state.
This book discusses the general problems of approach, classification, typology and terminology, and examines ancillary fields of study and the methods of teaching comparative government.
This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state.
This book considers the environmental and other reasons for the apparent political inertness of American labour. It shows how the original cautious approach towards political engagement on the part of American labour was changed during the New Deal.
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