Scott Gordon provides a review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in Renaissance Italy to the present day. He examines the problems that the great thinkers have confronted in their attempts to construct systematic theories of social phenomena. At the same time, he presents an authoritative survey of the major writers in the fields of economics, sociology and political science. Separate chapters are devoted to the nature of sociality, the idea of harmonious order, the conflict between progress and perfection, the methodology of history, and the relation...
Scott Gordon provides a review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in Renaissance Italy to the present day. He ...
This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America.
From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of "mixed government," the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval...
This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of th...
