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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism
Book SynopsisThis book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism, critical theory, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and all the rest? In an effort to arrive at a fair judgment on that question, the book reaches for an understanding of postmodern theorists by way of two genres they despised and hopes, for that very reason, to do them justice. It tells a story, and in the telling, advances two basic claims: first, that the phenomenological/hermeneutical tradition is the most suitable source of theory for a humanism that aspires to be universal; and, second, that the ethical and political aspect of the human condition is authentically accessible only through narrative. In conclusion, it argues that the postmodern moment was a necessary one, or will have been if we rise to the occasion and seize the opportunity it offers: a truly universal humanism might yet be realized even in—or perhaps especially in—this atavistic hour of parochial populism. Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process: In Defence of Politics
Book Synopsis“Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.” (Professor Timothy White, Xavier University, USA)“Paul Dixon has produced an impressive and challenging book. Dixon defends the Northern Ireland peace process as a carefully-crafted, drawn-out episode in realist, pragmatic politics. However, he pulls few punches in highlighting the moral deceptions which have kept the process in play. Provocatively, Dixon also challenges a wide range of academic interpretations of the processes and their associated political prescriptions. Thoughtful and well-researched throughout, Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process is an essential read for anyone interested in conflict management.” (Professor Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool)“In this outstanding book, Dixon shows yet again the importance of the theatrical metaphor for Northern Ireland. More importantly still, he demonstrates that the adoption of a critically realist outlook actually enhances our capacity to think creatively about the political choices we face in international politics and the alternative policies and institutions we might construct.” (Professor Adrian Little, The University of Melbourne)This book is exceptional in defending the ‘dirty politics’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. Political actors in Britain, Ireland and the United States performed the peace process and used ‘political skills’, often including deception and hypocrisy, in order to wind down the conflict and achieve accommodation. These political skills, it is argued, are often morally justifiable even as they are popularly condemned. The Northern Ireland peace process has been highly successful in reducing violence and an accurate understanding of its politics is an important contribution to international debates about managing conflict.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION2. IN DEFENCE OF ‘REAL’ POLITICS3. POLITICS AS THEATRE4. ‘A TRAGEDY BEYOND WORDS’: INTERPRETING BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS NORTHERN IRELAND5. WERE THE IRA DEFEATED?6. THEATRICAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL SKILLS7. THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, ‘DIRTY POLITICS’ AND THE BELFAST AGREEMENT8. DEFENDING THE POLITICAL MORALITY OF THE PEACE PROCESS9. ‘PEACE WITHIN THE REALMS OF THE POSSIBLE?’ DAVID TRIMBLE, UNIONIST IDEOLOGY AND THEATRICAL POLITICS10. ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE 11. CONCLUSION: INTERPRETING THE PEACE PROCESS AND THE FUTURE OF NORTHERN IRELAND
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Islam's Renewal: Reform or Revolt?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues, a structural and conceptual dimension of extant democracies. The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of democracy, including the persistence of hybrid democracy and the decline of democracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of democracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of democracy and government in general.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Police Abuse in Contemporary DemocraciesMichelle D. Bonner, Michael Kempa, Mary Rose Kubal, and Guillermina SeriPart I: Citizenship2. Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in FranceCathy Lisa Schneider3. Police as State: Governing Citizenship through ViolenceGuillermina Seri and Jinee Lokaneeta4. Development of the Concept of “Political Profiling”: Citizenship and Police Repression of Protest in QuebecFrancis Dupuis-DériPart II: Accountability5. Holding Police Abuse to Account: The Challenge of Institutional Legitimacy, a Chilean Case StudyMichelle D. Bonner6. Police Abuse and Democratic Accountability: Agonistic Surveillance of the Administrative StateRosa Squillacote and Leonard Feldman7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived AccountabilityChristian Davenport, Rose McDermott, and David ArmstrongPart III: Socioeconomic (In)Equality8. Supporting the “Elite” Transition in South Africa: Police Abuse in a Violent Neoliberal DemocracyMarlea Clarke9. Policing as Pacification: Postcolonial Legacies, Transnational Connections, and the Militarization of Urban Security in Democratic BrazilMarkus-Michael MüllerPart IV: Conclusion10. Conclusion: Rethinking Police Abuse in Contemporary DemocraciesMichelle D. Bonner
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the Russian Revolution underwent through its turbulent history, going back to its actors, agents, theorists and propagandists to consider whether it is at all possible to revisit the Russian Revolution as an event. With this problematic as a backbone, the chapters of this section scrutinize the ambivalences of revolution in four distinctive phenomena (sexual morality, religion, law and forms of life) that pertain to the revolution’s historicity. Part II concentrates on how the revolution was retold in the aftermath of its accomplishment not only by its sympathizers but also its opponents. These chapters not only bring to light the ways in which the revolution triggered critical theorists to pave new paths of radical thinking that were conceived as methods to overcome the revolution’s failures and impasses, but also how the Revolution was subverted in order to inspire reactionary politics and legitimize conservative theoretical undertakings. Even commemorating the Russian Revolution, then, still poses a threat to every well-established political order. In Part III, this volume interprets how the Russian Revolution can spur a rethinking of the idea of revolution. Acknowledging the suffocating burden that the notion of revolution as such entails, the final chapters of this book ultimately address the content and form of future revolution(s). It is therein, in such critical political thought and such radical form of action, where the Russian Revolution’s legacy ought to be sought and can still be found. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1 Preface Reconsidering the Russian Revolution 2. Chapter 2 Karl Schlögel “Beyond the Horizon: The Russian Revolution Seen from Afar” 3. Chapter 3 Sylvia Sasse “Reenacting the Revolution? Theater and Politics of Repetition” 4. Chapter 4 Enikő Darabos “Revolution in Sexual Ethics: Communism and the ‘Sex Problem’” 5. Chapter 5 Christian Schmidt “Revolution and Salvation” 6. Chapter 6 Naveen Kanalu “Law, Absolute Will, and the ‘Withering of the State’: Sovereignty at the Limits of Lenin’s ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’” 7. Chapter 7 Dieter Thomä “What Is Life Like After Revolution? Administration, Habit, and Democracy in Lenin’s The State and Revolution – and Beyond” Retelling the Russian Revolution 8. Chapter 8 Ulrich Schmid “German and Jewish Conspiracies: The October Revolution from the perspective of the Italian Fascists and the German National Socialists” 9. Chapter 9 Tatjana Jukić “A Narrative Theory for the October Revolution (From Maugham to Benjamin and Back)” 10. Chapter 10 Marie-Josée Lavallée “October and the Prospects for Revolution. The Views of Arendt, Adorno, and Marcuse” 11. Chapter 11 Tora Lane “Memory politics and the ‘politics of memory’” 12. Chapter 12 Stephan Rindlisbacher “Into Historical Limbo: The Legacy of the October Revolution in Russia” Reenabling Revolution 13. Chapter 13 Geoffroy de Lagasnerie “The Concepts of Revolution” 14. Chapter 14 Christoph Menke “The Possibility of the Revolution” 15. Chapter 15 Donatella della Porta “Time Intensification in Revolutionary Dynamics” 16. Chapter 16 Thomas Telios “Postscript: Communist Subjectivity and the Politics of Collectiversalism”
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Hannah Arendt’s Aesthetic Politics: Freedom and the Beautiful
Book SynopsisWe face a crisis of public reason. Our quest for a politics that is free, moral and rational has, somehow, made it hard for us to move, to change our positions, to visit places and perspectives that are not our own, and to embrace reality. This book addresses this crisis with a model of public reason based in a new aesthetic reading of Hannah Arendt’s political theory. It begins by telling the story of Arendt’s engagement with the Augenblicke of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger, Kafka and Benjamin, in order to identify her own aesthetic Moment. Josefson then explicates this Moment, what he calls the freedom of the beautiful, as a third face of freedom on par with Arendt’s familiar freedoms of action and the life of the mind. He shows how this freedom, rooted in Jaspers’s phenomenology and a non-metaphysical reading of Kant, serves to redress the world-alienation that was a uniting theme across Arendt’s works. Ultimately, this volume aims to challenge orthodox accounts of Arendtian politics, presenting Arendt’s aesthetic politics as a radically new model of republicanism and as an alternative to political liberal, deliberative and agonistic models of public reason. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The Moment.- 3. The Beautiful.- 4. Judgment.- 5. Spirit.- 6. Res publica.- 7. Conversations.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Multiculturalism in Canada: Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Values
Book SynopsisMulticulturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values sometimes require contrary practices of homogenization, exclusion, insensitivity, and intolerance. Multiculturalism in Canada clarifies what multiculturalism is by relating it to more basic principles of equality, freedom, recognition, authenticity, and openness. Forbes places both official Canadian multiculturalism and Quebec's semi-official interculturalism in their historical and constitutional setting, examines their relations to liberal democratic core values, and outlines a variety of practical measures that would make Canada a more open country and a better illustration of what a commitment to egalitarian cultural pluralism now means. Consisting of a series of connected essays-including careful considerations of the works of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor-this book provides the first comprehensive account of multiculturalism in Canada. Table of ContentsIntroduction (Celebrating Diversity)Chapter 1 (Official Multiculturalism) Chapter 2 (Visionary Policies)Chapter 3 (Cultural Equality) Chapter 4 (Cultural Freedom) Chapter 5 (Cultural Recognition) Chapter 6 (Ethical Authenticity)Chapter 7 (Varieties of Openness)Chapter 8 (Culturally Open Governance)Chapter 9 (Going Forward: Future Imaginaries)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens
Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception, moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so, this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in particular.Table of ContentsKoen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus – The legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens: contexts, concepts, reception, translation and diffusion.- PART I: Vattel’s ideas and his context.- Radoslaw Szymanski – Vattel as an intermediary between the economic society of Berne and Poland.- Frederic Iéva – “A poor imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?” Biographical uncertainties and the laborious genesis of Vattel’s Droit des gens.- Alberto Carrera – The citizen’s right to leave his country: The concept of exile in Vattel’s Droit des Gens.- Koen Stapelbroek – The foundations of Vattel’s ‘system’ of politics and the Seven Years’ War: moral philosophy, luxury and the constitutional commercial state.- Antonella Alimento – Publication strategies and reform politics: the French circulation of Vattel’s Droit des gens.- PART II: The reception of Vattel in Italy and elsewhere.- Antonio Trampus – Good government and the sovereignty of small states: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century reception of the Droit des gens.- Danilo Pedemonte – Vattel in the Republic of Genua: theory and practice.- Alberto Clerici – Vattel in the Papal State. Anti-Prussian propaganda and the Law of nations in Italy during the Seven Years’ War.- Gert-Fredrik Malt – Vattel's system for subjects in international law and the establishment of Norway as a Nation in 1814.- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina – The legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens in the long nineteenth century.-
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The African National Congress and Participatory Democracy: From People's Power to Public Policy
Book SynopsisThis book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement’s ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s ‘people’s power’ movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party’s commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC’s democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party’s participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa’s democracy.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Battle of Ideas1.1. The Intertwining of Movement and Democracy1.2. South Africa’s Landscape of Participatory Traditions1.3. Approaching the Study of Ideas1.4. The Role of Theory in Shaping Democracy1.5. Currents of Participation and their Intellectual Origins1.6. The ANC’s Theory of Participatory Democracy2. Participation in the History of ANC Democratic Thought2.1. From Conservative Liberalism to African Nationalism2.2. Participation through Mass Movement Politics 2.3. Revolutionary Theory and the Popular Role2.4. Conclusion3. Discourses of ‘People’s Power’3.1. The Context for a Popular Movement3.2. Themes and Ideas in the Conception of ‘People’s Power’3.3. Ideologues and Influences 3.4. Implications for Participatory Democracy 3.5. Conclusion4. The People Shall Govern: The Codification of Ideas4.1 Participation and Constitutionalism4.2. Participation and the Local4.3. Conclusion5. Post-1994 Policy and Movement Discourse5.1. Participatory Policy in New Local Government5.2 Participation in Movement Discourse5.3. Conceptual Tensions and Parallels5.4 Conclusion6. Conclusion: The Power of Ideas6.1. Vanguardism and Democracy
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s
Book SynopsisThis book explains how the media helped to invent the European Union as the supranational polity that we know today. Against normative EU scholarship, it tells the story of the rise of the Euro-journalists – pro-European advocacy journalists – within the post-war Western European media. The Euro-journalists pioneered a journalism which symbolically magnified the technocratic European Community as the embodiment of Europe. Normative research on the media and European integration has focused on how the media might help to construct a democratic and legitimate European Union. In contrast, this book aims to deconstruct how journalists – as part of Western European elites – played a key role in elite European identity building campaigns.Trade Review“The book is extremely well-structured with helpful introductory contexts to the various phases of Europeanisation as constructive enthusiasm for it moved from the margins in the 1950s to a hegemonic position in the 1970s. … Herzer’s timely contribution is laudably historical as befits a volume in this excellent series. … His book supplements this approach through insightful interviews with key contributors across four main countries: Germany, France, UK, and Italy.” (Martin Conboy, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 57 (3), 2022)“It provides a rich and detailed insight into European journalism history against the background of European integration history while also adding to our understanding of present day EU–media relations. … Herzer’s book is a time travel companion well recommended.” (Carolin Rüger, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, August 28, 2020)Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University
Book SynopsisCritical theory draws on Marxism, psychoanalysis, postmodern and poststructuralist theorists. Marxism and psychoanalysis are rooted in the Enlightenment project, while postmodernism and poststructuralism are more indebted to Nietzsche, whose philosophy is rooted in anti-Enlightenment ideas and ideals. Marxism and psychoanalysis contributed mightily to our understanding of fascism and authoritarianism, but were distorted and disfigured by authoritarian tendencies and practices in turn. This book, written for clinicians and social scientists, explores these overarching themes, focusing on the reception of Freud in America, the authoritarian personality and American politics, Lacan’s “return to Freud,” Jordan Peterson and the Crisis of the Liberal Arts, and the anti-psychiatry movement. Trade Review“Burston’s book is an outstanding work of scholarship in which he favourably reviews Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm’s contention that ‘sadomasochism and authoritarianism are not confined to the extreme Right … . Burston endorses the mode of rational authority needed by democratic entities, which is the one that promotes competence and mutual respect.” (Ann Casement, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 66 (1), 2021)Table of ContentsChapter One: Critical Theory and the Problem of AuthorityChapter Two: Freud and America: The Golden Age, the Freud Wars and BeyondChapter Three: Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser: Return to Freud? Chapter Four: Of Two Minds: Language and the Unconscious in Freud, Stern and McGilchrist Chapter Five: Trump, Authoritarianism & the End of American DemocracyChapter Six: Nietzsche, Postmodernism and the Hermeneutics of SuspicionChapter Seven: Jordan Peterson and the Postmodern UniversityChapter Eight: Anti-Psychiatry: The End of the Road?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Understanding Politics and Society
Book SynopsisThis textbook presents political sociology as a connective social science that studies political phenomena by creating fruitful connections with other perspectives. The relationship between politics and society is more complex than ever due to the emergence of new power structures, forms of conflict organization and management, and social practices of political participation. Several scholars describe this historical phase as the 'de-politicization of representative politics'. The book addresses classical themes of and approaches to political sociology, but also dedicates several chapters to contemporary developments within political sociology, including, for instance, the role of the internet and bottom-up political communication in social movements. In addition, the volume acts as a professional tool for those scholars and researchers that are beginning to study political processes from a sociological perspective.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Politics and society1.1. Modern politics and the field of political sociology1.2. Political science and political sociology1.3. Political sociology as a connective social science1.4. The research logic in political sociology Chapter 2 Chasing political sociology2.1. Alexis de Tocqueville [1805-1859]2.2. Karl Marx [1818-1883]2.3. Emile Durkheim [1858-1917]2.4. Max Weber [1864-1920]Chapter 3 Understanding political sociology3.1. The behavioural revolution3.2. Politics as a system3.3. Political development and modernisation3.4. Politics as action 3.5. Rediscovering institutions Chapter 4 Dimensions and distribution of power4.1. The ambiguity of power 4.2. The social dimensions of power4.3. Understanding social power4.4. The distribution of power4.5. Measuring powerChapter 5 Features and developments of the modern state5.1. Origins and features of the modern state5.2. The historical development of the state5.3. Modern state, administration, bureaucracy 5.4. Public policy process and neoliberalismChapter 6 International system and globalisation6.1. The international system6.2. Understanding international relations6.3. The global system6.4. Global challenges to international politics Chapter 7 The paths of political violence7.1. The state and violence7.2. Old and new wars7.3. Social revolutionsChapter 8 Democracy and political participation8.1. The democratic process8.2. Democracy and political participation 8.3. Democracy and interest groups8.4. Determinants of democracy and non-democratic regimes Chapter 9 The parabola of political parties9.1. Features and functions of political parties9.2. The Historical evolution of political parties9.3. Changes in the mass party9.4. Party developments in changing societies Chapter 10 Social movements and political change10.1. Social movements and modernity10.2. Social movements, identities, symbols, and emotions10.3. Social movements, organisations, and networks10.4. Action repertoires, communication, and cycles of protest10.5. Social movements in changing societiesChapter 11 Ideologies, political cultures and the populist wave11.1. The tricky conceptualisation of political cultures11.2. Political ideologies between persistence and crisis11.3. Political socialisation, generations, and recruitment11.4. Populism and anti-political sentiment Chapter 12 Communication and political process 12.1. The field of political communication 12.2. Political languages and rituals12.3. Media politics12.4. Political communication, citizens, and new media
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Politician: A Companion to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
Book SynopsisThe age of princes has passed, but the age of politicians is at its heights. So is Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince any less relevant? No. But it needs an update, to reflect the political realities of our times. That is the purpose of this groundbreaking manuscript—a guide to success in contemporary politics, where the democratically-elected politician has assumed the role of the classical prince. Here is revealed how a politician must act if she wants to be successful, how she must plot her every move, whether dealing with colleagues, constituents, family members, bureaucrats, lobbyists or the media. Indeed, this manuscript is unique, for it exposes at a level of detail never seen before the inner workings of the mind of the contemporary politician. And while it may prove an asset to aspiring politicians, its frank and honest nature will no doubt strike fear in the hearts of incumbent politicians as it sheds light on their motives, intentions, and aspirations.Table of ContentsProlegomenaThe Lay of the LandI. From the prince to the politicianII. The role of the politician in the liberal democratic stateIII. What draws the citizen to the world of politicsIV. Why all politics is localV. The politician: crusader and opportunistGetting ElectedVI. How the aspiring political may gain electionHolding OfficeVII. How the politician should deal with his political superiorsVIII. How the politician should deal with her political peersIX. How the politician should deal with his political inferiorsX. How the politician should behave in curiaXI. How the politician should behave in cameraXII. Concerning particular dangers for the politician as office holderXIII. Concerning the politician and his constituents XIV. Concerning the politician and her personal staffXV. Concerning the politician and the bureaucracyXVI. Concerning the politician and her financial backersXVII. Concerning the politician and those who may command blocs of votersXVIII. Concerning the politician, policy makers, consultants and lobbyistsXIX. Concerning the politician and the mediaXX. Concerning the politician and her familyXXI. Concerning political discourseGetting Re-ElectedXXII. How the politician should behave between electionsXXIII. How the politician should behave during re-election campaignsXXIV. Concerning the risks attendant on political ascensions Ends and MeansXXV. The politician's better angelXXVI. ConclusionPostscriptsConcerning Donald TrumpGlossary of Proper NamesAcknowledgementsIndex
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls’ original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered liberal democracies, political liberalism has the potential to inspire and contribute to democratic establishment and maintenance in East Asia. Specifically, the book has two main objectives. First, it will demonstrate that political liberalism offers the most promising vision for liberal democracy, and it can be defended against contemporary perfectionist objections. Second, it will show that perfectionist approaches to political Confucianism suffer from practical and theoretical difficulties. Instead, an alternative model of democracy inspired by political liberalism will be explored in order to achieve a multivariate structure for citizens to come to terms with democracy in their own ways, to support a neutral state that ensures the establishment and stability of democracy, and to maintain an active public role for Confucianism to prevent it from being banished to the private sphere. This model represents a more promising future for democracy in East Asia.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1: Political Liberalism and the Paradigm Shift of Political Philosophy.- Chapter 2: The Public Conception of Morality in Political Liberalism.- Chapter 3: Against the Asymmetry Objection.- Chapter 4: The Idea of Hyperpluralism and Pluralism in East Asia.- Chapter 5: Confucianism and Comprehensive Confucian Perfectionism.- Chapter 6: The Discontents of Moderate Political Confucianism.- Chapter 7: Politica; Confucianism and Multivariate Democracy in East Asia.- Chapter 8: Towards a Pluralistic Approach to Antiperfectonism.- Chapter 9: Respect, Recognition, and Toleration: A Concentric Theory of Global Justice.- Conclusion.- Bibliograpy.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in
Book SynopsisEurope is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration. And yet the European integration process is often treated as synonymous with the evolution of just one particular, and until recently geographically quite limited, Western-centred organisation: the European Union (EU). This trend obscures the multitude of ways European states have acted collectively on both sides of the Iron Curtain – and continue to do so throughout the continent today. With contributors drawn from history and political science, this book explores some of these diverse integration efforts ‘beyond Brussels’. We shine a light on international organisations, trade frameworks, and various political, social, scientific and cultural forms of unity in both Eastern and Western Europe. In so doing, the book seeks to redefine the history of the European integration process not only as a less purely EU-centric phenomenon but as a less strictly Western European one too.Trade Review“Providing new insights on a range of understudied actors, structures and for a of cooperation, this book contributes indeed to a broader understanding of the manifold strands that together constitute the larger context of European integration. … the book constitutes through its case studies, conceptualisation approaches, and suggestions for further studies a nonetheless important and valuable addition to the literature in the wider and increasingly diverse field of European integration historiography.” (Mechthild Roos, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, April 14, 2022)“The book does a much better job than most edited volumes in drawing out links and connections between the various contributions. … Overall, this book is an excellent contribution to the literature: it summarizes the discussion, challenges established notions, provides a string of contributions with fresh findings, and prepares the ground for further debate.” (Kiran Klaus Patel, Connections, April 8, 2022)Table of Contents1 Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’ - Matthew Broad and Suvi KansikasPart I: Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions2 ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1946–56 - Daniel Stinsky3 Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussion’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s - Philippe Vonnard4 Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement - Alexandra Athanasopoulou Köpping5 Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a Europeanising Actor in the Balkans - Emma HakalaPart II: Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional Integration6 Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of European Cooperation, 1933–1951 - Ettore Costa7 Less Than Membership but More Than Association: Establishing the European Economic Area (EEA), 1989–1993- Juhana Aunesluoma8 Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy Cooperation between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s - Falk Flade9 Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms - Anna Lowry Part III: European Integration At and Around the Subregional Level10 Uniting Europe From Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Early Cold War - Pauli Heikkilä11 Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of Brexit - John Krige12 Subregional Integration in East Central Europe: Strategies in the In-Between Sphere - Katalin Miklóssy 13 Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe: More Than Just ‘Cooperation’? - Martin DangerfieldPart IV: Conclusions 14 European Integration: Past and Future, East and West, Brussels and Beyond - Anne Deighton
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Photographing Mussolini: The Making of a
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image. It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis. Throughout the 1930s photographs of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were chosen with much care by the regime. They were deployed to highlight those physical traits - the piercing eyes, protruding jaw, shaved head - that were meant to evoke the Duce's strength, determination and innate sense of leadership in the mind of his contemporaries. The chapters in this volume explore the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and shows how it was a significant contributor to the development of Italian mass culture between the two world wars.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: Setting the Scene 2. The photograph as a source and agent of history3. Images in politics before MussoliniPart II: Production 4. The image makers of the Duce5. The corporate image: Istituto Luce6. The press-image: photojournalists and agencies7. The aesthetic image: Ghitta CarellPart III: Audiencing 8. The visual presence of the Duce9. Mussolini’s early photographs10. Mussolini’s photogenic charisma11. The emotional appeal12. Marketing Mussolini13. Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès: On Socialism,
Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaurès, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I, who was born in 1859 and died in 1914, a few days before the outbreak of the conflict. Jaurès is one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects dear to him, which are then some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of the time, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jaurès's notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims, to make Jaurès known to those who do not know him outside of France.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Socialist and RepublicanThe Socialism of the French Revolution For DreyfusCollectivism and the PeasantsJaures to his ConstituentsSecular EducationThe general strike and universal workers' suffrageNo Ambiguity2. The Champion of French-German UnityGerman SocialismThe Enduring ProblemGerman controversies Revolutionary GermanyPeace and Socialism (Berlin lecture)3. The Philosopher and the HistorianIdealism and materialism in the conception of historyA Socialist HistoryThe Social Balance-Sheet of the Nineteenth Century4. Internationalism, Peace and the WorldCapitalism and WarFor PeaceIn the OrientAguinaldo and the PhilippinesAgainst the Colonial PolicyRace WarThe European RevolutionThe Renewal Movement in ChinaSpeech by Citizen JauresTurket and MoroccoThe New ArmySpeech on Asian EmancipationSpeech on Turkey and ChinaToo LateOn the Need for Sang-Froid
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The British General Election of 2019
Book SynopsisThe British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant. Drawing upon cutting-edge research and wide-ranging elite interviews, the new author team provides a compelling and accessible narrative of this landmark election and its implications for British politics, built on unparalleled access to all the key players, and married up to first-class data analysis. The 21st volume in a prestigious series dating back to 1945, it offers something for everyone from Westminster insiders and politics students to the interested general reader.Table of ContentsPart 1: The 2017-19 Parliament Chapter 1: The Calling of the Election – (guest author Philip Cowley) Chapter 2: The Long Goodbye: Brexit – (guest authors Anand Menon and Alan Wager) Chapter 3: From May to Johnson: The Conservatives Chapter 4: The Man Who Wasn’t There: Labour Chapter 5: A New Hope? The Liberal Democrats and others Chapter 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Politics in the Devolved Nations (guest authors Ailsa Henderson, Roger Scully and Jon Tonge) Part 2: The Election Campaign Chapter 7: “Get Brexit Done”: The national campaign Chapter 8: The Red Wall Falls Chapter 9: Redemption? The Polls Chapter 10: The Air War: Broadcasting Chapter 11: Enduring Brands : The Press (guest authors David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring) Chapter 12: All change? MPs and candidates (Guest authors: Rosie Campbell, Jennifer VanHeerde-Hudson and Chris Butler) Part 3: The Results Chapter 13: The British voter in 2019: an individual level analysis Chapter 14: The outcome in the constituencies: an aggregate analysis (guest authors John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Patrick English) Chapter 15: The Election in Retrospect Appendix 1: The Results Analysed (guest authors John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Patrick English) Appendix 2: The Voting Statistics
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia
Book SynopsisThis book studies satirical protest in today’s Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is satirical protest at all effective?—these are some of the questions the authors tackle in this book. The first part presents an overview of the evolution of satire on stage, on the Internet and on television on the background of the changing post-Soviet media landscape in the Putin era. Part Two consists of five studies of satirical protest in music, poetry and public protests.Trade Review“In addition to its considerable contribution to scholarship on contemporary Russian culture, Semenenko’s comparative historical discussion makes it a valuable addition to studies of the place of humour and satire in Soviet culture … . This volume also fills a gap in the scholarship on Putin-era culture and cultural politics, which has tended to focus on particular media (literature, film, television, art, music) or genres, rather than on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire.” (Seth Graham, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 101 (2), January, 2023)Table of ContentsPart OneChapter 1. The Evolution of Censorship in RussiaChapter 2. The Evolution of Satire in RussiaChapter 3. Satire on post-Soviet TV: From “Puppets” to PuppetsChapter 4. KVN: A TV Show Larger than TelevisionChapter 5. Joking Apart: Russian Humor of the Digital EraPart TwoChapter 5. Monstrations’ and 'Shimmering': Absurdist Popular Protests , by Daniel LeidermanChapter 6. Beyond Subversive Affirmation: The New Dissent Art in Russia, by Klavdia SmolaChapter 7. The mediality of satirical protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”, by AnnelieBachmaierChapter 8. Conservative Imperfection: Satire and New Populism of Leningrad, by Maria EngströmEpilogue. Beyond Satire, by Aleksei Semenenko
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Palgrave Handbook of Populism
Book SynopsisThis handbook assesses the phenomenon of populism—a concept frequently belabored, but often misunderstood in politics. Rising populism presents one of the great challenges for liberal democracies, but despite the large body of research, the larger picture remains elusive. This volume seeks to understand the causes and workings of modern-day populism, and plumb the depths of the fears and frustrations of people who have forsaken established parties. Although the main focus of this volume is political science, there are more disciplines represented in order to get a whole picture of the debate. It is comprised of strong empirical and theoretical papers that also bear social relevance.Table of ContentsPart I Populism : Introduction to & some Reflections on the Concept.- Chapter 1: The New Age of Populism – Reapproaching a Diffuse Concept.- Part II : Theoretical Critique.- Chapter 2: The Past and Present of Populism.- Chapter 3: Populism is Hegemony is Politics? Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Populism.- Chapter 4: An Antipodean Populism? Winston Peters, New Zealand First, and the Problems of Misclassification.- Chapter 5: A Critique of Left-Wing Populism – Critical Materialist and Social-Psychological Perspectives.- Part III: The Political Psychology of Populism & its Affective Underpinnings.- Chapter 6: The Psychology of Populism.- Chapter 7: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Chapter 8: From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger – The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Part IV: Authoritarian Populism & Fascism.- Chapter 9: Fascism and Populism.- Chapter 10: Populism and Authoritarianism.- Chapter 11: Authoritarian Populism and Collective Memory Manipulation.- Chapter 12: The (almost) Forgotten Elitist Sources of Right-Wing Populism.- Part V: Economic Populism, Inequality & Crises.- Chapter 13: Populism and the Economics of Antitrust.- Chapter 14: The Red Herring of ‘Economic Populism’.- Chapter 15: Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations.- Part VI: Populism & Gender.- Chapter 16: Right-Wing Populism and Gender.- Chapter 17: The Gendered Politics of Right-Wing Populism and Intersectional Feminist Contestations”.- Chapter 18: Popular Sovereignty and (Non)Recognition in Venezuela: On the Coming into Political Being of El Pueblo.- Part VII: New Populisms and Cleavages.- Chapter 19: Environmental Populism.- Chapter 20: Medical populism.- Chapter 21: Global Populism.- Chapter 22: Populism and the Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide.- Chapter 23: (Populism and) the Recasting of the Ideological Landscape of Liberal Democracies.- Part VIII: Populism Discourses.- Chapter 24: The Political Language of Islamic Populism.- Chapter 25: Populism, Anti-populism and Post-truth.- Chapter 26: Experience Narratives and Populist Rhetoric in US Congressional Primaries.- Chapter 27: The Framing of Right-Wing Populism. Intricacies of ‘Populist’ Narratives, Emotions, and Resonance.- Chapter 28: Populism and Collective memory.- Part IX: Populists in Office.- Chapter 29: Populism in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 30: Populism in Africa and the Anti-Corruption Trope in Nigeria’s Politics.- Chapter 31: Populism Under Former Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa: The Cases of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.- Chapter 32: Venezuela- The Institutionalization of Authoritarian Populism.- Chapter 33: Populist Neo-Imperialism: A New Take on Populist Foreign Policy.- Part X: Strategic Populism & Societal Support.- Chapter 34: Populism as an Implementation of National Biopolitics. The Case of Poland.- Chapter 35:Understanding the Infiltration of Right-Wing Populist Positions Within Unsuspected Groups: The Case of Professional Social Workers.- Chapter 36: Clarifying our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.- Part XI: Consequences of Populism & Anti-Populist Discourse.- Chapter 37: Polarization as a Result of Populism? Evidence from Plenary Debates in the Bundestag.- Chapter 38: The Enemy in my House: How Right-Wing Populism Shifted the Debate About Citizenship in France.- Chapter 39: The Democracy’s ‘Resolved’ Dilemma. A Theory of Turnout Inequality Reducing (Right) Populist Parties.- Chapter 40: Counter Strategies in Dealing with Populism.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Alternative
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, ‘fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction: Transition, Transformation, Resistance: Theorising the Future by co-editor Neal HarrisPart 1: The Future Beckons: Alternative VisionsChapter One: ‘Alternative Economies’, Luke MartellChapter Two: ‘Worker Ownership, Self-Management, and the Promise of a Co-operative Economy’, Robin JervisChapter Three: ‘Fully Automated Luxury... What?’ Neal HarrisPart 2: The Journey: Theorising Transition and ResistanceChapter Four: Understanding Intercultural Experience: Super-Diversity, Social Learning and Cultural Trends Toward Transition, Estevao BoscoChapter Five: Regaining the Future: The Temporal Complexity of Transitional Politics, Onur AcarogluChapter Six: Socialist transition through a Sacred Entanglement with the Earth: Transforming States of Exception into Revolutionary Fervour, Arnab ChakrabortyPart 3: Classes, Collectives, Groupings: Transition and SubjectivityChapter Seven: ‘The masses will rise again’: Rosa Luxemburg, the concept of the masses and the question of non-revolutionary working class, Dana MillsChapter Eight: Glimpsing the future in neoliberal subjectivities:‘Self-optimisation’ as a resource for transition, Will LeggettChapter Nine: Acephalic Resistance: Evaluating the Contemporaneity of ‘New’ Social Movements through the case of ‘the Yellow Vests’, Denis Chevalier-BousseauPart 4: Transition through the InstitutionsChapter Ten: Neoliberalism’s Material and Ideological Profit from Incarceration: A Call for Abolition, Anna WimbledonChapter Eleven: Desire beyond Market Forces: Queerness in India after the removal of Article 377, Anup Sharma Chapter Twelve: Films as Cognitive Machines: A Discussion through the Apparatus Theory, Ufuk GürbüzdalChapter Thirteen: Hippocrates Pronounced Dead: Breaking Down Neoliberal Complacency in Healthcare, Ozan Siso Conclusion by co-editor Onur Acaroglu
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Historical Globalization of Colorism
Book SynopsisThis topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race. In the aftermath of globalization, humanity has experienced unprecedented levels of interaction. This book presents evidence to show that in the 21st century which is dependent on ever-expanding communication technologies, and new forms of visual media actually exacerbate historical mores of colorism in the lives of humanity, i.e.: African, Asian, Latinx, Native and European descent. The book discusses the historical roots and current values of idealization of light skin, skin bleaching practices, stereotypes of skin color developed through migration and cultural assimilation, and health and educational consequences of colorism. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2. Globalization.- chapter 3. Color Consciousness: African Descent.- Chapter 4. Color Consciousness: Asian Descent.- Chapter 5. Color Consciousness: Latino Descent.- Chapter 6. Color Consciousness: Native Descent.- Chapter 7. Color Consciousness: Women.- Chapter 8. Color Consciousness: Gay/Lesbian.- Chapter 9. Color Consciousness: Immigrants.- Chapter 10. Color Consciousness: The Bleaching Syndrome.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Promote the Vote: Positioning Social Workers for
Book SynopsisThis timely, relevant text is a comprehensive compendium of critical information about voting in the United States. It frames voting as an integral aspect of social work practice and provides concrete suggestions for how students can increase their involvement in expanding voter participation by marginalized groups.This book: Examines the current social and political context Introduces multiple perspectives on why voting matters Presents a brief history of voting rights in the United States Explains the nuts and bolts of campaigns and elections Discusses who votes and who doesn’t, how people vote, and why Describes voter suppression tactics and identifies obstacles facing low-turnout groups Highlights strategies to expand voter participation Provides concrete examples of how students can help maximize voter participation Explores how voter engagement intersects with social work at all levels of professional practice The only social work textbook devoted entirely to the topic of voting, Promote the Vote: Positioning Social Workers for Action is the ideal supplement for classes in social welfare policy, policy practice, human rights, and social justice. Filled with research findings, practical information, and case examples, this book provides social work students and professionals with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to engage clients and their communities in the electoral process. With voting rights quickly becoming a flashpoint in the struggle for equity and justice, now is the perfect time for this valuable resource.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Context for Voter Engagement The Social and Economic Context The Political Context Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 2: Why Voting Matters Voting Is a Human Right Voting Is Consistent with Social Work Values Voting Builds Political Power Voting Benefits Individuals Voting Benefits Communities Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 3: How We Got Here: A Brief History of Voting Rights Early Voting in America Voting Rights for African Americans The Women’s Suffrage Movement The Youth Vote Additional Policies to Expand Voting Rights Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 4: Voting Processes and Procedures Elected Officials Political Parties Registration and Voting Political Campaigns Presidential Elections Congressional, State and Local Elections Ballot Measures Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 5: Voting Patterns and Trends Voter Turnout Who Votes? Why People Vote How People Vote Voting by Social Workers Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 6: Special Populations People of Color Naturalized Citizens and Linguistic Minorities People in Poverty People Experiencing Homelessness Citizens with Felony Convictions People with Disabilities LGBTQ+ Voters Survivors of Domestic Violence Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 7: Barriers to Voting Structural Barriers Intimidation and Suppression Gerrymandering Money in Politics Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 8: Expanding Opportunities Registration Initiatives Voting Initiatives Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 9: A Better Future The Need for Change Legal and Ethical Considerations Strategies for Action Developing a Culture of Voting Summary and Conclusion Try This! Appendix I: State Election Information Websites Appendix II: Helpful Resources
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I:
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an overview of the long reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), a highly significant female ruler in a time of great change. It offers an accessible yet detailed survey of the events of her life and reign, followed by thematic chapters exploring key aspects of her time in power and the wider context of politics, culture and society in early modern England. Topics covered range from the composition of the queen's Privy Council; the 'Other' in Elizabethan England; assassination attempts; friendship; entertainment; and dreams. Gathering a great deal of cutting-edge and original research from one of the foremost scholars of Elizabeth's reign, this book is an essential companion for students and a crucial reference work for researchers. Table of ContentsPart I. Politics and Religion1. Coronation 2. Privy Council 3. Parliament 4. Archbishops of Canterbury5. Courtships and Favorites6. Potential Heirs to the Throne7. Ambassadors at Elizabeth’s Court8. Assassination Attempts, Plots, and Rebellions9. The Spanish ArmadaPart II. Society and Culture10. Elizabeth's England and Others 11. Mirrors 12. Dreams 13. Women Friends of Queen Elizabeth14. Slander, Gossip, and Rumors15. Elizabeth's Pleasures.
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Springer International Publishing AG Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934:
Book Synopsis This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Link.springer.com Table of Contents1. Introduction: Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- Part I. Revolutions around the World.- 2. Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution, 1897-1921; Geoffrey Swain.- 3. Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911; Laura De Giorgi.- 4. Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East; Alp Yenen.- 5. Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America, 1848-1917; Olaf Kaltmeier and Léon Enrique Ávila Romero.- Part II. Revolutions, Revolutionaries and Counter Mobilisation in Europe.- 6. Global versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution'; Marica Tolomelli.- 7. The German Revolution of 1918-1920; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 8. The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-labour Mobilisation in Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1905; Romain Bonnet, Amerigo Caruso and Alessandro Saluppo.- 9. For People’s Power: Revolutions in Finland, 1899-1932; Pertti Haapala.- 10. The Last Echo of 1917: The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism; Matthew Kerry.- Part III. Revolutionaries between Repression and Reform.- 11. Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform; Liam Byrne and Sean Scalmer.- 12. The United States in an Era of Global Revolution; Shelton Stromquist.- 13. South African Revolutionaries: 1915-1922; Tom Lodge.
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Springer International Publishing AG Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations
Book SynopsisThis book assesses Italian budgetary policy over the last thirty years. Covering more than three decades of political change and national transformation, it considers the institutional and external factors that have shaped long-term budgetary changes. The book analyses the levels of expenditure allocation across varying budget categories, and compares the budget bill and budget law in order to shed new light on the specific dynamics that have influenced budgetary decision-making processes. Overall, the book provides important conclusions on the role of the budget as a governmental policy instrument, the consequences of multilevel governance over national budgetary policy, and the impact of national and international crises on budgetary changes. With Italy being one of the most important parliamentary democracies in Europe and a key actor within the European Union, these conclusions have important repercussions for other European parliamentary democracies. The book will appeal to scholars and students of European public policy, public administration and economic governance.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Policy-Making and Budget Changes.Chapter 3: Budgeting Policy Within the Union: Italy in the European Context.Chapter 4: Approaching an Explanation of Longitudinal Change in the Italian Budget.Chapter 5: Incremental Changes or Punctuations?Chapter 6: To Change or Not to Change: Governments’ Spending Intentions.Chapter 7: The Impact of the Decision-Making Process.Chapter 8: Conclusion.
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Springer Nature B.V. Republicanism and Democracy
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Springer International Publishing AG Debating Religion and Forced Migration
Book SynopsisThis open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, and other humanitarian crises around the world have led to growing numbers of people seeking refuge both in the North and in the South. Migrating and seeking refuge have always been part and parcel of spiritual development. However, the current 'refugee crisis' in Europe and elsewhere in the world has brought to the fore fervent discussions regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the ‘refugee crisis’ with Islam, and fear of the ‘Other.’ Many religious institutions, spiritual leaders, and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls to resolve the ‘refugee crisis.’ However, equally many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates use religious values to inform their call to action to welcome refugees and migrants, provide them with assistance, and facilitate integration processes. This book includes three distinct but inter-related parts focusing, respectively, on politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion, with a particular emphasis on identity and belonging among various refugee groups; and faith and faith actors and their responses to forced migration.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Part 1: Politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religion. - Chapter 1: Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Refugee Crises in Hungary (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Chapter 2: A journey to reconciliation? Asylum, religion and LGBTQ+ identities in the UK (Moira Dustin). - Chapter 3: Though Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel (Agnieszka Bielewska). - Part 2: Lived experiences of religion: Belonging and identity. -Chapter 4: Class solidarity and sectarian politics: Quarantina and the refugees of Beirut, Lebanon (Diala Lteif). - Chapter 5: Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: On the multidimensional role of religion in the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Ingrid Løland). - Chapter 6: Exclusive inclusion: “Cultural values,” racialization of religion, and religious difference in the Netherlands’ politics of belonging (Aukje Muller). - Part 3: Faith and faith actors in responses to forced migration. - Chapter 7: Local faith communities’ responses to forced migration (Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson). - Chapter 8: Religion Resettles Refugees: Case studies of religion's role in resettlement in the United States (Mathew Weiner). - Chapter 9: Religion and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: A Case Study with MCC Ontario (Luann Good Gingrich). - Chapter 10: The occult and land access among peri-urban refugees: The case of Lydiate informal settlement in Zimbabwe (Johannes Bhanye). - Conclusions: Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads (Elżbieta M. Goździak)
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Das Bundesstaatsprinzip: Eine staatsrechtliche
Book SynopsisAm Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts hatte die bundesstaatliche Ordnung an Ansehen gewonnen. Können die Merkmale des Bundesstaates auf ein Verfassungsprinzip der Bundesstaatlichkeit zurückgeführt werden, das auf einer höheren Abstraktionsebene angesiedelt ist? Ist das Bundesstaatsprinzip ein Grundsatz des geschriebenen oder ungeschriebenen Verfassungsrechts? Kann dieses Prinzip Grundlage für weitere juristische Ableitungen sein oder ist es entbehrlich? Edin Šarcevic fragt nach einem Verfassungsprinzip, das aus dem Grundgesetz hergeleitet werden kann; er erörtert seine etwaigen Inhalte, Strukturen und seine Leistungsfähigkeit für die juristische Dogmatik.Die Existenzberechtigung eines Verfassungsprinzips 'Bundesstaat' für die juristische Problemlösung und Dogmatik schließt die methodische Erörterung der dogmatischen Argumentation ein. Soweit dabei die methodischen Analysen als 'Dekonstruktion' eines Verfassungsprinzips Bundesstaat erscheinen, ist dies vor allem als ein Plädoyer für die Schärfung des methodenkritischen Bewußtseins bei der Verfassungsinterpretation zu verstehen.Ein Rückgriff auf das Bundesstaatsprinzip ist dogmatisch überflüssig, seine Tragweite reicht nicht über die sprachliche Hilfeleistung, die argumentationstechnische und kognitive Bedeutung hinaus. Das Prinzip dient weniger der Wahrung der Eigenstaatlichkeit der Länder, es beschreibt vielmehr eine verfassungsrechtlich definierte Bund-Länder-Beziehung und stellt keine Grenze gegen die Übertragung von Hoheitsrechten und keine strukturelle Absicherung der Länderstaatlichkeit dar.
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Springer International Publishing AG Political Analysis Using R
Book SynopsisThis book provides a narrative of how R can be useful in the analysis of public administration, public policy, and political science data specifically, in addition to the social sciences more broadly. It can serve as a textbook and reference manual for students and independent researchers who wish to use R for the first time or broaden their skill set with the program. While the book uses data drawn from political science, public administration, and policy analyses, it is written so that students and researchers in other fields should find it accessible and useful as well. By the end of the first seven chapters, an entry-level user should be well acquainted with how to use R as a traditional econometric software program. The remaining four chapters will begin to introduce the user to advanced techniques that R offers but many other programs do not make available such as how to use contributed libraries or write programs in R. The book details how to perform nearly every task routinely associated with statistical modeling: descriptive statistics, basic inferences, estimating common models, and conducting regression diagnostics. For the intermediate or advanced reader, the book aims to open up the wide array of sophisticated methods options that R makes freely available. It illustrates how user-created libraries can be installed and used in real data analysis, focusing on a handful of libraries that have been particularly prominent in political science. The last two chapters illustrate how the user can conduct linear algebra in R and create simple programs. A key point in these chapters will be that such actions are substantially easier in R than in many other programs, so advanced techniques are more accessible in R, which will appeal to scholars and policy researchers who already conduct extensive data analysis. Additionally, the book should draw the attention of students and teachers of quantitative methods in the political disciplines.Table of ContentsObtaining R and Downloading Packages.- Loading and Manipulating Data.- Visualizing Data.- Descriptive Statistics.- Basic Inferences.- Linear Models and Regression.- Diagnostics.- Generalized Linear Models.- Using Libraries to Apply Advanced Models.- Time Series Analysis.- Linear Algebra with Programming Applications.- Additional Programming Tools.
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Springer International Publishing AG Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass political culture of the mid-1930s in the USSR and thus contributes to wider research on Russian political culture. Popular comments about the constitution show how liberal, democratic and conciliatory discourse co-existed in society with illiberal, confrontational and intolerant views. The study also covers the government’s goals for the constitution’s revision and the national discussion, and its disappointment with the results. Outcomes of the discussion convinced Stalin that society was not sufficiently Sovietized. Stalin's re-evaluation of society's condition is a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted from the relaxation of 1933-36 to the Great Terror, and why repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Sources.- Part I. Government Goals for the Constitution Revision and National Discussion.- 3. The Origins of Constitutional Reform.- 4. Moderation in the Policies of the Mid-1930s.- 5. Motives for the New Constitution.- 6. Soviet Sociopolitical Mobilizations.- 7. The State’s Goals for the Nationwide Discussion.- Part II. Popular Perceptions of the Constitution.- 8. The Economic Situation at the Grassroots Level.- 9. Liberal Discourse.- 10. Voices against Liberties.- 11. Other Comments and Recommendations.- 12. Outcome of the Discussion: From Relaxation to Repression.- 13. On Russian Political Culture in the Twentieth Century.- 14. Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser
Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus: Nancy Fraser. In honor of her seventieth birthday, and in the spirit of her work in the tradition of critical theory, this collection brings together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical approaches to address this conjunction and evaluate Fraser’s lifelong contributions to theorizing it. Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser’s work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism. Going beyond conventional disciplinary distinctions and narrow debates, all the contributors to this project share a commitment to critically understanding the connection between capitalism, exploitation, and the viable roads for emancipation. They recover insights provided by classical traditions of political and social thought, but they also open new research directions adapted to the global challenges of our time.Trade Review“The contributions to Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser are uniformly excellent. … The essays in Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique achieve what its editors say they set out to achieve … .” (Georgia Warnke, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, September 19, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction2. From Socialist-Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism3. Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New4. Feminism, Capitalism and the Social Regulation of Sexuality5. Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation6. The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”7. Feminism, Ecology and Capitalism: Nancy Fraser’s Contribution to a Radical Notion of Critique as Disclosure8. Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity: Where’s the Law?Robin Blackburn9. (Parity of) Participation: The Missing Link between Resources and Resonance10. Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: the Grammar of Social Resistance and the Polanyian Narrative11. Hegel and Marx: A Re-Assessment After One Century12. Crisis, Contradiction and the Task of a Critical Theory13. What’s critical about a critical theory of justice?14. Beyond Kant versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity 15. Conclusion: Nancy Fraser and the Left: a Searching idea of equality
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Springer International Publishing AG Understanding Transitional Justice: A Struggle for Peace, Reconciliation, and Rebuilding
Book SynopsisThe book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues. Particular attention is reserved to how these concepts and issues have been addressed, both theoretically and literally, by lawyers, policy-makers, international bodies, and other actors informing the practice. By presenting significant, if undeniably disputable, alternatives to mainstream theories and past methods of addressing past injustice and (re)building a democratic state, the work aims to illustrate some foundational themes of transitional justice that have emerged from a diverse set of discussions. The author’s position thus arrives from a careful analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of answers to the question: how, after a traumatic social experience, is justice restored?Table of Contents1. Introduction: Building Justice in the Wake of Atrocities2. A Fight for Inclusion: The Transforming Role of Victims in Transitional Justice Processes 3. Truth: Chasing an Illusion? 4. Reconciliation: A Journey "From Madness to Hope" 5. Amnesties: Juggling Tensions within the Transitional Justice Discourse6. The Origins of International Criminal Accountability: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals 7. International Criminal Justice Revisited: The Ad-Hoc Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda 8. The Hybrid Experiment: Assessing the Special Court for Sierra Leone 9. Healing a Wounded Nation: The Reconciliatory Paradigm of Truth Commissions10. Adapting the Perspective: The Role of Bottom-Up Initiatives 11. "No Hay Paz Sin Trabajo": Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in the Struggle for a More Meaningful Justicechapter 12. Conclusions: Justice beyond Rhetoric
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Springer International Publishing AG Human Rights Policies in Chile: The Unfinished Struggle for Truth and Justice
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Springer International Publishing AG The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance’s environmental programme. This expansion of allied cooperation is an interesting indicator of transatlantic relations during an era of transition and under the impact of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy. The book discusses intra-NATO politics, the projects of the early years and the participation in CCMS projects of non-NATO countries – an unusual feature in the activity of a military alliance. Environmental cooperation in NATO was part of the changes which scientific cooperation was effecting in the international system during the entry into the post-industrial era. The making of the CCMS is the story of a crisis of adjustment to the new era, of hiccups in transatlantic relationships, but ultimately also a story of transatlantic unity. The book will be of much interest to students of NATO, the Cold War, international and environmental history, history of science and international relations.Trade Review“The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society sheds new light on the anxieties facing the Western allies. … This overview of the CCMS’s early studies offers a reminder that NATO’s operations have long been far more complex and diverse than the phrase ‘political and military alliance’ suggests.” (Susan Colbourn, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, April 16, 2019)Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 The Making of the CCMS, 1969.- 3 The CCMS in NATO Politics: from Doubt to Acceptance, 1970-75.- 4 Dress Rehearsal: the CCMS and Narcotics, 1970-72.- 5 CCMS: the Projects, 1970-75.- 6 The British Deviation, 1969-72.- 7 Beyond NATO: the CCMS and International Politics.- 8 Conclusions.
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Springer International Publishing AG Security, Economics and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Morality: Keeping or Surrendering the Bomb
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security based realism, economic interdependence liberalism, and nuclear weapons norms or morality based constructivism. Through the various chapters examining the nuclear munitions decisions of South Africa, Ukraine and North Korea, a case is built that a state’s leadership decides whether to keep or give up “the Bomb” based on interlinked security, economic and norms governed motivations. Thereafter, frameworks evaluating the likelihood of nuclear proliferation and accessing the feasibility of disarmament are then applied to North Korea and used to examine recent Iranian nuclear negotiability. This book is an invaluable resource for international relations and security studies scholars, WMD analysts and post graduate or undergraduate candidates focusing on nuclear arms politics related coursesTable of ContentsChapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Theories, Conceptual Model, Initial Case Analysis and Excluded Considerations.- Chapter Three: South Africa as a Classic Nuclear Armament and Disarmament Exemplar.- Chapter Four: Fiercely Negotiated Ukrainian Nuclear Disarmament.- Chapter Five: Contentious North Korean Disarmament Prospects.- Chapter Six: Policy Relevant Tripartite Theory Nuclear Policy Models and their Application to North Korea.- Chapter Seven – Conclusion: Can the Tri-Theoretic Models explain the Iranian Case?.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Intellectual Origins of the Belgian
Book SynopsisThis book explores the political ideas of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which led to the break-up of the Restoration state of the ‘united’ Kingdom of the Netherlands. It uncovers the origins of liberalism and political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands in the wake of the French Revolution, and traces the development of political language in the context of the tensions between the Northern and Southern part of the united Netherlands. It shows how differences in ‘Dutch’ and ‘Belgian’ political and intellectual history resulted in different understandings of essential political concepts such as ‘sovereignty’ and ‘balance of powers’, as well as of the nature of the constitutional order of 1815. Finally, it traces the emergence of Belgian nationalism within the discourse of opposition against the government. Stefaan Marteel therefore provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual background of the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Liberals.- Chapter 2. Political Debates in the Wake of the Declaration of the Constitution: The Legitimacy Problem and the Origins of a Liberal Opposition.- Chapter 3. Opposition against National Uniformity and for Limited Government.- Chapter 4. Monarchical Government, Opposition and a Divided Political Nation.- Part II: Catholics.- Chapter 5. Political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands between the Old Regime and the Restoration, 1787-1815.- Chapter 6. Ancient and Modern Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in Catholic Political Thought, 1814-1830.- PART III: Revolutionaries.- Chapter 7. A Union of Catholicism and Liberalism.- Chapter 8. The Reception of French Catholic Philosophy within Belgian Catholicism: Towards a New Intellectual Matrix.- Chapter 9. Towards Belgian Nationalism and a National Revolution.- Chapter 10. The Belgian Constitution and Post-Revolutionary Politics in the Context of the History of Political Thought.- Index
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Springer International Publishing AG The Art of Multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration
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transcript Verlag Beyond Molotovs A Visual Handbook of
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Prodinnova L'Ami de l'ordre
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Living in Problematicity
Book SynopsisSpanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patočka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writings assembled in Living in Problematicity examine the role of the philosopher in the world, how the world constrains us through ideology, and how freedom is possible through the recognition of our human condition in the problems of the world. These views outline Patočka’s political philosophy and how his later engagement in the political sphere with the human rights initiative Charter 77 corresponds with the ideas he maintained throughout his life. This short and engaging book—published in conjunction with the prestigious philosophy press OIKOYMENH—is an ideal English-language introduction to the most significant Czech philosopher in recent history. Trade Review"Living in Problematicity shows how [Patočka] analyzed historical events philosophically, from the interwar crisis of democracy to the normalization that followed the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Platonismand Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Some Comments Concerning the Extramundane and Mundane Position of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Reflection onDefeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Life in Balance, Life in Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ideology and Life in the Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Spiritual Person and the Intellectual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Political Philosophy of a Non-Political Philosopher by Eric Manton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Recommended Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Bibliographical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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Orient BlackSwan Framing the Media
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Scripting a New Gender Politic Telugu Women s
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The Chinese University Press New Challenges for Development and Modernization: Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region in the New Millennium
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the unique aspects of ‘communal liberalism’ in Mme de Staël’s writings and considers her contribution to nineteenth-century French liberal political thought. Focusing notably on the ‘Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française’, it examines the originality of Stael’s liberal philosophy. Rather than contrasting liberalism with either multiculturalism or republicanism, the book argues that Staël’s communal liberalism challenges the conventions of nineteenth-century political thought, notably through her assertion of the need to institutionalize an organic intermediary connecting the two spheres, an idea later advanced by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas. Offering a critical reappraisal of Staël’s multifaceted work, this book assesses the political impact of her work, arguing that the political influence of the ‘Considérations’ permeates the liberal historiography of the French Revolution up to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1: Germaine de Staël's Political Liberalism.- Invention of the Political Center as an Ideal: Staël and the Constitutional Monarchy (1789-1795).- Sentiment in Staëlian Political Liberalism: Letters on the Works and Character of J.-J. Rousseau.- Staël’s Liberal Republicanism in Reaction to the Discourse on Social Dissolution (1795-1799).- The Role of Civility in Staëlian Political Liberalism.- A Liberal Interpretation of the French Revolution: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution.- Part 2: Influence on Nineteenth-Century French Politics.- Reception of Considerations: The Hereditary Second Chamber.- Guizot’s and Rémusat’s Reactions to Considerations in 1818.- Barante’s Moment: The Advent of Communal Liberalism in 1829.- Tocqueville and Communal Liberalism (1830-1851).- Democratizing Communal Liberalism under the Second Empire.- Part 3: Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution.- Reception of Considerations: Left-Wing Historians’ Refutation in the 1820s.- The Reception of Considerations: A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution (1818-1848).- A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution after 1848.- Britain in the Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution: Tocqueville and Quinet in Regard to Considerations.- Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rethinking Cultural Criticism: New Voices in the
Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural context are being reconfigured in digital media and by means of digital media, as the boundaries of cultural criticism and who may perform as a cultural critic are redefined or even dissolved. The book applies cross-media and cross-disciplinary perspectives to advance cultural criticism as a wide-ranging and multi-facetted object of study in the 21st century. Presenting a broad collection of case studies, including global cases such as the Golden Globe, the Intellectual Dark Web, YouTube, Rotten Tomatoes and Artsy and particular national contexts such as Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands, the book showcases the many theoretical and methodological approaches that may serve as useful frameworks for studying new critical voices in the digital age. It will be of interest to media, communication and journalism scholars as well as scholars from a range of aesthetic disciplines.Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book uniquely recovers and assesses Stoic political thought by tracking its uptake into Western modernity and exploring the extent of its impact. Classical Stoicism has lately seen a popular resurgence inspiring self-help books and therapeutic treatments for anxiety and depression. As a scholarly source for the Western political tradition, it is even more important. Yet, as A.A. Long once observed: “[o]f all the ancient philosophies, Stoicism has probably had the most diffused” yet least “adequately acknowledged influence on Western thought.” This close textual study not only provides the first systematic study of the political content of Stoic thought but also establishes the hitherto under-appreciated influence of classical Stoicism on the political thought of the long eighteenth century and beyond in Europe and particularly Britain. The Stoic ideas upon which we focus include their cosmopolitanism, their contribution to sociability and self-interest debates, their influence on modern feminism and utilitarianism, and their prefiguration of modern conceptions of personal rights.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Stoic Political Thought and its Relevance for the Early-Modern PeriodChapter 2: Eighteenth Century Sociability Debates: Stoicism and the Battle with Modern EpicureanismChapter 3: Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment InternationalismChapter 4: Stoicism and Utilitarian ThoughtChapter 5: Stoicism, Proto-rights, Self-ownership and John LockeChapter 6: Stoic Feminism and Early Modern Women Writers.Chapter 7: Conclusion.Bibliography
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