Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of tyranny and exploring the rhetorical manipulation of religion for the purpose of political legitimacy.
A welcome addition to the political science and Asian studies literature, McCarthy addresses many of the current issues that underlie the field of democratization in comparative politics...
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism by assessing the work of influential political philosophers and economic theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Gunnar Myrdal, and John F. Muth. It is one of the first serious attempts to investigate the dominant sub-fields in economic theory through the lens of political philosophy.
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism by assessing the work of influential political philosophers and economic theorists...
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays in this collection analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors of seminal theories in modern economic thought--namely, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert E. Lucas Jr., and John F. Muth. The main theme linking all of the essays together is that economics is a product of modern...
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays in this collection analyz...
Covering various fields in political science, this text presents a historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism. Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book examines the political science of tyranny and explores the manipulation of religion for political legitimacy.
Covering various fields in political science, this text presents a historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism. Using Sing...
Patrick O'Sullivan, an aging, semi-retired agent, believes he's stumbled onto a terrorist plot that threatens to bring Los Angeles to its knees. Fighting the ghosts of past failures, he must now rely on old acquaintances from both sides of the Cold War, as well a a pair of trainees, all the time hoping that he is wrong.
Patrick O'Sullivan, an aging, semi-retired agent, believes he's stumbled onto a terrorist plot that threatens to bring Los Angeles to its knees. Fight...
In the Asia Pacific region, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political society to interact in different ways to Western best-practice scenarios which then go on to produce have implications for democracy and governance. These outcomes are derived from conditions that are delicately intertwined and are influenced by, and have influence upon, colonial legacies, religion, ethnic pluralism, the role of the military, the monarchy, bureaucratic capacities, constitutions, party systems, elections, executive-legislative relations, and the judiciaries.
This book...
In the Asia Pacific region, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political society to interact in different ways to Western ...
Before they were Old Farts, they were Young Whippersnappers. The heroes from The Old Farts' Spy Club are young, inexperienced trainees for The Office. Learning the Spy Game in Italy starts out as mostly fun, but gets serious fast as they learn that in the world of espionage, nothing is as it seems.
Before they were Old Farts, they were Young Whippersnappers. The heroes from The Old Farts' Spy Club are young, inexperienced trainees for The Office....
