Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains an important figure in the history
... dominates Rousseau's work is to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world where human beings are increasingly dependent on one another for the satisfaction of their needs. This concern has two dimensions: material and psychological, of which the latter has greater importance. In the modern w ...
... dominates Rousseau's work is to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world where human beings are increasingly dependent on one another for the satisfaction of their needs. This concern has two dimensions: material and psychological, of which the latter has greater importance. In the modern w ...
Not So Different After All?: The EU and Myths of Exceptionalism
... identify the EU as a distinct and exclusive political community. We will explore whether and how political myths, especially those of exceptionalism, provide ontological security; that is, confidence in who the EU is, what it does and why. It builds on arguments by Mitzen and Steele to explore the e ...
... identify the EU as a distinct and exclusive political community. We will explore whether and how political myths, especially those of exceptionalism, provide ontological security; that is, confidence in who the EU is, what it does and why. It builds on arguments by Mitzen and Steele to explore the e ...
Systems theory and Structural functionalism
... response to shess allows analysts to determine whether it is able lo survive dish¡rbances. Easton (1966) olaimed that sysiems analysis is especially suited "for interpretíng the behavior of the membe¡s in a system in the light of the consequences this behavior has for alleviating or aggravating shes ...
... response to shess allows analysts to determine whether it is able lo survive dish¡rbances. Easton (1966) olaimed that sysiems analysis is especially suited "for interpretíng the behavior of the membe¡s in a system in the light of the consequences this behavior has for alleviating or aggravating shes ...
From Democratic Government to Democratic
... seems, above all, to be one of free riding on the collective efforts of associated individuals to solve common concerns. As Pattie, Seyd and Whiteley (2004) put it: “The core problem to be addressed by a theory of citizenship is to explain why a group of people are willing to cooperate with each oth ...
... seems, above all, to be one of free riding on the collective efforts of associated individuals to solve common concerns. As Pattie, Seyd and Whiteley (2004) put it: “The core problem to be addressed by a theory of citizenship is to explain why a group of people are willing to cooperate with each oth ...
Dependent variables
... Conclusions and some policy implications • In modeling the degree of public confidence in basic social and political institutions, it is necessary to take into account the specificities of countries with economies in transition. • It is important to keep in mind that in countries with economies in ...
... Conclusions and some policy implications • In modeling the degree of public confidence in basic social and political institutions, it is necessary to take into account the specificities of countries with economies in transition. • It is important to keep in mind that in countries with economies in ...
Economy And The Re-Invention Of The Mexican State
... policies of the immediate past and their potential projection into the future will not generate consensus. As Harvard’s Mangabeira (Conger, 1997) recently put it in an interview, “The opposition in Latin America is in danger of being represented as a populist backlash of the poor against the rich.” ...
... policies of the immediate past and their potential projection into the future will not generate consensus. As Harvard’s Mangabeira (Conger, 1997) recently put it in an interview, “The opposition in Latin America is in danger of being represented as a populist backlash of the poor against the rich.” ...
A non-Meltzer-Richard Model of Individual Preferences for Redistribution
... the Meltzer-Richard model has indirectly been called into question by now well-established results in experimental economics where subjects often play strategies that do not maximize their expected payoff, evidence that is consistent with the literature from sociology and psychology on how individua ...
... the Meltzer-Richard model has indirectly been called into question by now well-established results in experimental economics where subjects often play strategies that do not maximize their expected payoff, evidence that is consistent with the literature from sociology and psychology on how individua ...
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... political terrain of struggle before our very eyes, we think the differences don't have any real effect on anything. It still feels more 'left-wing' to say the old ruling class politics goes on in the same old way. Gramsci, on the other hand, knew that difference and specificity mattered. So, instea ...
... political terrain of struggle before our very eyes, we think the differences don't have any real effect on anything. It still feels more 'left-wing' to say the old ruling class politics goes on in the same old way. Gramsci, on the other hand, knew that difference and specificity mattered. So, instea ...
Good governance and legitimacy
... levels to love and treat their subjects like the way parents treat their children,,with no selfishness and bias. However, speaking more abstractly and broadly, the elements of good government are essentially similar, whether in China or abroad, throughout the ages, and generally include the followin ...
... levels to love and treat their subjects like the way parents treat their children,,with no selfishness and bias. However, speaking more abstractly and broadly, the elements of good government are essentially similar, whether in China or abroad, throughout the ages, and generally include the followin ...
What Is Democracy? Liberal Institutions and Stability in Changing
... bureaucracy, defined absolutism. It became a model of a successful state that other European courts emulated through the eighteenth century. Mobilizing and sustaining large armies had already expanded the responsibilities of royal officials in France at the expense of both local institutions and the ...
... bureaucracy, defined absolutism. It became a model of a successful state that other European courts emulated through the eighteenth century. Mobilizing and sustaining large armies had already expanded the responsibilities of royal officials in France at the expense of both local institutions and the ...
1 - Homepages at Manchester
... “Language, Ideology, and Anarchism.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. “The Coming Insurrection” (co-authored with Brad Thomson). Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Fra ...
... “Language, Ideology, and Anarchism.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. “The Coming Insurrection” (co-authored with Brad Thomson). Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Fra ...
Social Spillovers of Political Polarization Gregory Huber Yale
... preferences rather than opportunities. Among promising steps to solve this problem are… analysis of processes of partner choice on digital marriage markets” (525-6). Finally, measuring a rich set of other non-political characteristics allows the analyst to assess whether sorting on those characteris ...
... preferences rather than opportunities. Among promising steps to solve this problem are… analysis of processes of partner choice on digital marriage markets” (525-6). Finally, measuring a rich set of other non-political characteristics allows the analyst to assess whether sorting on those characteris ...
5 Why does the Public Sector Grow?
... growth of the public sector, several explanatory factors, such as left-wing rule, corporatism, openness and the proportion of old population, are so well correlated that it is impossible to ascertain, first, which variable actually matters and, second, through what specific mechanisms it does. Their ...
... growth of the public sector, several explanatory factors, such as left-wing rule, corporatism, openness and the proportion of old population, are so well correlated that it is impossible to ascertain, first, which variable actually matters and, second, through what specific mechanisms it does. Their ...
MWNF - Sharing History
... After the defeat of the Qawasim by the British, a British Residency is established at Bushire on the Persian littoral to represent Britain’s political, economic and military interests there. Shortly after, a “Native Agent” is based in Sharjah as his representative. Native agents were generally non- ...
... After the defeat of the Qawasim by the British, a British Residency is established at Bushire on the Persian littoral to represent Britain’s political, economic and military interests there. Shortly after, a “Native Agent” is based in Sharjah as his representative. Native agents were generally non- ...
Norwegian Political Science at 60
... department of sociology (established the following year in 1967)—and it is here that we find one of the most important institutional legacies of Rokkan’s work. In 1980, the year after Rokkan’s death, the University of Bergen (UiB) established the department of comparative politics, an institute whos ...
... department of sociology (established the following year in 1967)—and it is here that we find one of the most important institutional legacies of Rokkan’s work. In 1980, the year after Rokkan’s death, the University of Bergen (UiB) established the department of comparative politics, an institute whos ...
How to prevent rising of populism and polarization
... at best fractured and at worst absent? We would be naive not to recognize that we live in just such an era where national consensus is impeded by the rise of populist/nationalist sentiments and international inter-cultural relations are equally impeded by heightened nationalist tension. How do we fa ...
... at best fractured and at worst absent? We would be naive not to recognize that we live in just such an era where national consensus is impeded by the rise of populist/nationalist sentiments and international inter-cultural relations are equally impeded by heightened nationalist tension. How do we fa ...
The Selling of Candidate: Political Advertising as its Worst and Best
... President Lyndon Johnson, we hear, “These are the stakes, to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other or we must die.” The final frame appears, showing a black screen with white letters reading: „Vote for President Johnson on No ...
... President Lyndon Johnson, we hear, “These are the stakes, to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other or we must die.” The final frame appears, showing a black screen with white letters reading: „Vote for President Johnson on No ...
Developing countries call for historical responsibility as basis for
... the COP President. But the Minister at the plenary did not clarify whether the Ministerial groups were supposed to look at papers and texts and to produce outcomes of their own, or whether their discussions were primarily to feed into the negotiating groups. The confusion was apparent as Parties rai ...
... the COP President. But the Minister at the plenary did not clarify whether the Ministerial groups were supposed to look at papers and texts and to produce outcomes of their own, or whether their discussions were primarily to feed into the negotiating groups. The confusion was apparent as Parties rai ...
Hidden Meaning Revealed
... Consider what world events were occurring at the time and how they were affecting Australia. 2) Which politician is the ‘farmer’ meant to be is in this cartoon? 3) Focus your attention on the stature and physicality of the man — consider how the cartoonist has depicted his mood in the cartoon an ...
... Consider what world events were occurring at the time and how they were affecting Australia. 2) Which politician is the ‘farmer’ meant to be is in this cartoon? 3) Focus your attention on the stature and physicality of the man — consider how the cartoonist has depicted his mood in the cartoon an ...
Claus Offe Participatory inequality in the austerity state: a supply
... secrecy). In most EU member states, membership rates (measured as the ratio of members of all parties and all voting age citizens) are declining over recent decades. In the 13 "old" (pre-1974) democracies, "membership levels in terms of absolute numbers have been nearly halved since 1980", while gai ...
... secrecy). In most EU member states, membership rates (measured as the ratio of members of all parties and all voting age citizens) are declining over recent decades. In the 13 "old" (pre-1974) democracies, "membership levels in terms of absolute numbers have been nearly halved since 1980", while gai ...
Abstracts Thursday, Nov. 21 - ICA Political Communication Division
... Author Lindsey Meeks, University of Washington - Contact Me Politically entertained: The effects of movies on the political attitudes of the female audiences We advance the argument that exposure to entertainment media, especially biographical political movies showing viable and powerful female poli ...
... Author Lindsey Meeks, University of Washington - Contact Me Politically entertained: The effects of movies on the political attitudes of the female audiences We advance the argument that exposure to entertainment media, especially biographical political movies showing viable and powerful female poli ...
Slavery, States` Rights, and Western Expansion
... Main Idea: The Compromise of 1850 was meant to calm the fears of Americans. But one provision, the new Fugitive Slave Act, had the opposite effect. Black Americans and abolitionists despised the law and organized to try to help enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. The Kansas- ...
... Main Idea: The Compromise of 1850 was meant to calm the fears of Americans. But one provision, the new Fugitive Slave Act, had the opposite effect. Black Americans and abolitionists despised the law and organized to try to help enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. The Kansas- ...
Final mode of the receive-accept-sample
... responses people make to closed-ended policy questions and the ideas that are at the top of their heads as they do so. Because it claims that people answer survey questions on the basis of the ideas that are most salient to ...
... responses people make to closed-ended policy questions and the ideas that are at the top of their heads as they do so. Because it claims that people answer survey questions on the basis of the ideas that are most salient to ...
Political Activity and the Board Room
... or defeat of a candidate for federal office, as long as they made these communications independently from candidates. Group Speech: Even with Citizens United, there was still a hurdle for individuals who wanted to support independent expenditures. Individuals could not work with other like-minded in ...
... or defeat of a candidate for federal office, as long as they made these communications independently from candidates. Group Speech: Even with Citizens United, there was still a hurdle for individuals who wanted to support independent expenditures. Individuals could not work with other like-minded in ...
5 Structuring of Beliefs
... preferences back and forth over time – but this might be the product of uncertainty as much as randomness Each individual will have a true long-term preference which can be observed by sampling people over time ...
... preferences back and forth over time – but this might be the product of uncertainty as much as randomness Each individual will have a true long-term preference which can be observed by sampling people over time ...