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Cambridge University Press Civil Society History and Possibilities
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Cambridge University Press Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Justice and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press Decisions and Elections
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Cambridge University Press Legitimating Identities The SelfPresentations of Rulers and Subjects
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Cambridge University Press Witchcraft Sorcery Rumors and Gossip
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Cambridge University Press African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis 19791999
Book SynopsisThis 2001 book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued.Trade Review'This landmark work presents a searching and persuasive political explanation of Africa's failure to achieve development despite two decades of externally imposed economic reform … A major contribution to our understanding of Africa's political economy.' Foreign Affairs'This is economics by someone who understands African politics. No Africanists can afford not to read it.' Commonwealth & Comparative Politics'A well-written book is usually a persuasive book, and this book is well written. Its reasoning is more than persuasive, however: it is compelling in its gloomy conclusions, in which the failure of economic reform seems inescapable. … Van der Walle's book is probably the best among a spate of literature that explains the African economic predicament in terms of the patrimonial nature of politics.' The Journal of Development Studies'The book is a must-read for all those interested in understanding the African situation and how progress might be achieved in the future. … this is an excellent study.' Development in PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Approaches to Africa's permanent crisis; 2. Patterns in economic reform implementation, 1979–99; 3. Decision making in post-colonial Africa; 4. Understanding state responses to the crisis; 5. The crisis and foreign aid; 6. Democratization and the prospects for change; 7. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Media Markets and Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Liberal Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa
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Cambridge University Press Nationalism and Particularity
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Cambridge University Press Englishness the Study of Politics The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker 32 Ideas in Context Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press Nature Limits of Political Science
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Cambridge University Press Virtue Transformed
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Cambridge University Press Politics by Principle Not Interest
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Cambridge University Press Rational Economic Man
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Cambridge University Press Building a Democratic Political Order
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Cambridge University Press Deference and Defiance in Monterrey Workers Paternalism and Revolution in Mexico 18901950 88 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 88
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Cambridge University Press SelfInterest Before Adam Smith A Genealogy of Economic Science 68 Ideas in Context Series Number 68
Book SynopsisA study of the history of the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith, in order to understand what it meant when Adam Smith used it as an axiom in The Wealth of Nations. The author shows that Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' yet integrates it at the same time.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Self-interest as a first principle; 2. Epicurean vs. stoic schemes; 3. Self-interest and reason; 4. Passions, interests and society; 5. Interested and disinterested commerce; 6. Self-interest and the public good; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism.Trade Review'It is the product of over a decade of sustained research and has been built, not only upon a familiarity with the current concerns of political theory, but also upon an important archival discovery which significantly alters our conception of the foundations of Bauer's thought … It will undoubtedly establish itself as the standard work in this field and should attract a readership beyond German and Hegel/Marx specialists since it is one of the few studies to apply new questions about republican thought to Hegelianism and nineteenth-century German thought.' Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge'… this book easily fulfils its main objective: it clearly establishes itself as the major work on Bruno Bauer in English, and as the major recent study of Bauer in any language.' History of European Ideas'… well-researched, competent study of republican themes in the pre–1848 work of Bruno Bauer … Moggach has a thorough command of the writings of Bauer, Hegel, other primary thinkers of the period, and the relevant secondary literature. … he knows intimately the events prompting particular writings by Bauer and their influence on contemporary politics and debates. Dense, albeit masterful, Moggach's analysis is necessary reading for all interested in Hegel and Hegelian studies.' CHOICE'This book represents a major contribution to our understanding of Bruno Bauer and his place amongst fellow Young Hegelians … an original and insightful interpretation of Bauer's republicanism, one that is grounded in an ethical and aesthetic critique of Hegel's late political philosophy. … The implicit premise that seems to motivate Moggach's powerful interpretation of Bauer - one which might have been more explicitly articulated - is the following: in the wake of the historical exhaustion of socialism and in a period in which the unleashing of possessive individualism on a planetary scale portends a destructiveness whose limits correspond only to the continued existence of life itself, Bauer's political philosophy presents us with a serious alternative to both of these positions.' Samir Gandesha, Simon Fraser University, Canada'Douglas Moggach's The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer is a detailed and exciting account of the life of one such priest of modernity who made it his life's work to herald the coming age of reason and freedom in view of the failed revolutions of the past. … Moggach's work is … an extremely valuable resource for those interest in late German idealism and also for those more broadly concerned with the modern project as it was advanced by figures such as Bauer.' H-Net Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: 'the friend of freedom'; Part I. Foundations: Aesthetics, Ethics and Republicanism: 1. 'The idea is life': Bauer's aesthetics and political thought; 2. 'Free means ethical': idealism, history and critical theory; Part II. Judging the Old Order: 3. 'The other of itself': the critique of the religious consciousness; 4. 'Revolution and the Republic': the state and self-consciousness; Part III. The Emancipatory Project: 5. 'Only the ought is true': Hegel, self-consciousness and revolution; 6. 'To the people belongs the future': universal right and history; Part IV. Judging the Revolutionary Movement: 7. 'The fire of criticism': revolutionary dynamics, 1843–8; 8. 'The republic of self-consciousness': revolutionary politics in 1848; Epilogue: after the revolution: the conclusion of the Christian-Germanic age; Appendix: Bruno Bauer, 'On the Principles of the Beautiful' (1829); Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press From Reich to State The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age 17801830 New Studies in European History
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Cambridge University Press Transforming Mozambique
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Cambridge University Press Explaining Political Disagreement
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy Politics John Wyclif 54 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 54
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Cambridge University Press Principles of Constitutional Design
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Cambridge University Press Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
Book SynopsisThis book examines how public, political discourse shaped the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. The 'ideology' of Republican mass oratory is analysed comprehensively and situated fully within the institutional, historical and physical contexts of the public meetings in which these speeches were heard.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This study makes a serious contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of Roman politics … This is a book for scholars and teachers … there is much valuable information and insight in the book … CUP exhibits its customary impeccable standard of production.' The Journal of Classics TeachingReview of the hardback: '… the Companion has its real high points: the best chapters are individual master-classes in working with evidence and concepts.' The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: 'Morstein-Marx has written an excellent book, notable for the depth both of its scholarship and of its thought. It should be read not only by all students of the late Republic or of Roman oratory, but also of ancient politics and political theory more generally.' BMCRReview of the hardback: '… an excellent study on late Republican politics as well as a work that offers plenty of new and stimulating insights into Roman rhetoric. Not only should specialists of ancient history and classicists in general refer to this book, but it will surely also appeal to anyone interested in the history of rhetoric.' Rhetorical ReviewReview of the hardback: 'After decades of relative neglect the Roman contio has now become the focus of an intense debate about the people's role in Republican politics. This new study by Morstein-Marx represents the fullest and most ambitious treatment of the institution so far. It is a provocative and stimulating work which offers important new insights into the nature of Roman politics. The scholarship is impressive and the analysis often profound.' Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsList of figures and maps; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Civic knowledge; 4. The voice of the people; 5. Debate; 6. Contional ideology: the invisible 'optimate'; 7. Contional ideology: the political drama; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Locke
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The book; 2. Locke the man and Locke the writer; 3. Two Treatises of Government and the Revolution of 1688; 4. Locke and Hobbes; 5. The social and political theory of Two Treatise of Government; Appendices; Editorial note; Preface; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cole An Intellectual Biography An Intellectual Biography Conference on British Studies Biographical Series
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Cambridge University Press Neostoicism and the Early Modern State
Book SynopsisNeostoicism was one of the most important intellectual movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It started in the Protestant Netherlands during the revolt against Catholic Spain. Very quickly it began to influence both the theory and practice of politics in many parts of Europe.Table of ContentsPart I. Justus Lipsius and the Netherlands movement: 1. Constantin in publicis malis; 2. The political intent in Neostoic philosophy; 3. The main political work of Lipsius; 4. Political Neostoicism; 5. The military renascence; 6. The European echo; 7. The Netherlands movement in Brandenburg-Prussia; Part II. The Constitutional Development of the Early Modern State: 8. The religious covenant and the social contract; 9. 'Police' and Prudentia civilis in the seventeenth century; 10 From contractual monarchy to constitutionalism; 11. The estates of Germany and the formation of the state; 12. The constitutional situation of monarchy in Germany from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century; 13. Army organization in the German territories from 1500 to 1800; 14. The constitution of the Holy Roman Empire and the European state system 1648–1789; 15. The structure of the absolute state.
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism Modern Social Theory An Analysis of the Writings of Marx Durkheim and Max Weber
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Cambridge University Press Restructuring PostCommunist Russia
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism
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Cambridge University Press Can Russia Modernise
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Cambridge University Press Faith in Politics Religion and Liberal Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism For and Against
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Cambridge University Press NonState Actors as Standard Setters
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Cambridge University Press Carl Schmitts International Thought Order and Orientation
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Cambridge University Press Explaining Institutional Change
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Cambridge University Press The Writing of Royalism 1628 1660
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Cambridge University Press Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism
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Cambridge University Press Modus Vivendi Liberalism Theory and Practice
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Nozicks Anarchy State and Utopia Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Genocide
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Cambridge University Press Roman Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Gambling in America
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Cambridge University Press From Marx to Lenin
Book SynopsisThis study is a contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between Marx's project and Soviet society.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Marx and the transition to socialism; 3. Engels, democracy and revolution; 4. Marxism and Revisionism; 5. The Russian revolutionary tradition; 6. Lenin and the Party; 7. Lenin and the dictatorship; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Moral Movements and Foreign Policy 116 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 116
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Cambridge University Press Against Intellectual Monopoly
Book Synopsis'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding answer is: No. So-called intellectual property is in fact an 'intellectual monopoly' that hinders rather than helps the competitive free market regime that has delivered wealth and innovation to our doorsteps. This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the only sensible policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist.Trade Review'One should bear a heavy burden of proof to enjoy a monopoly. Boldrin and Levine have dramatically increased that burden for those who enjoy intellectual monopoly. All economists, lawyers, judges, and policymakers should read this book.' W. A. Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison'Boldrin and Levine, highly respected economic theorists, have produced a lively and readable book for the intelligent layman. In it, they challenge conventional wisdom about patents and argue that we would be better off without them. The book will open a fresh debate on the policy on intellectual property protection.' Boyan Jovanovic, New York University'There is a growing and important skepticism about the fundamental rules we have used to regulate access to information and innovation. This beautifully written and compelling argument takes the lead in that skeptical charge.' Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School'For centuries, intellectual property rights have been viewed as essential to innovation. Now Boldrin and Levine, two top-flight economists, propose that the entire IPR system be scrapped. Their arguments will generate controversy but deserve serious examination.' Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton'This is an important and needed book. The case made by Boldrin and Levine against giving excessive monopoly rights to intellectual property is a convincing one. Monopoly in intellectual property impedes the development of useful knowledge. I think they make the case that granting these monopoly rights slows innovation.' Edward C. Prescott, University of Minnesota'Boldrin and Levine present a powerful argument that intellectual property rights as they have evolved are detrimental to efficient economic organization.' Douglass C. North, Washington University in St Louis'How have we come to view ideas as if they have some physical existence that we can lock up behind a set of property rights laws akin to, but remarkably different from, those we use to protect our physical property? This is the central question in Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. The answer they come to is startling: except in a few rare cases, intellectual property protection does more economic harm than good and ought to be eliminated. The technology of digital computers and the Internet, as Boldrin and Levine show again and again, has exposed long-standing moral shortcomings of current intellectual property laws in a particularly stark way.' Stephen Spear, Carnegie Mellon University'This thought-provoking book should be read not only by academics interested in intellectual property, innovation, growth and the dynamics of markets, but also by policymakers and the general public.' Martin Peitz, University of MannheimTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Creation under consumption; 3. Innovation under competition; 4. The evil of intellectual monopoly; 5. The devil in Disney; 6. How competition works; 7. Defenses of intellectual monopoly; 8. Does intellectual monopoly increase innovation?; 9. The pharmaceutical industry; 10. The bad, the good, and the ugly.
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