Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Ideologies - General

Forschung zu "Rechtsraumen" markiert eine Schnittstelle zwischen Rechtsgeschichte und Kulturwissenschaften. Es werden die dynamischen Veranderungen von rechtlichen Vorschriften und Praktiken, aber auch von religiosen, weltlichen oder technischen und okonomischen Handlungsweisen analysiert, denen sie bei ihrer raumlichen, sprachlichen sowie kulturellen Ubertragung ausgesetzt sind.

Elections are a fundamental element of democracy, since elected governments reflect voter preferences. At the same time, it is inevitable that policies pursued by any government closely resemble the preferences of some citizens, while alienating others who hold different views. Previous works have examined how institutional settings facilitate or hinder policy proximity between citizens and governments. Building on their findings, the book explores a series of "so what" questions: how and to what extent does the distance between individual and government positions affect citizens'...

Die Beitrage in diesem Band untersuchen Kontinuitaten und Bruche im Rechtswesen der "Soldatenkaiser" Wie verhalten sich Krise und Recht zueinander? Lassen sich Veranderungen in der Rechtsentwicklung durch die politische Instabilitat erklaren? Sind regionale Sonderwege auch rechtlich zu belegen? Zeigen sich Besonderheiten im Privatrecht? Anhand der Rechtsquellen entsteht damit ein vielschichtiges Bild einer durch Umbruche gekennzeichneten Epoche.

This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton paperback edition, 1994). Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations between persons.

Originally published in 1993.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts...

During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom, and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las Americas.

Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these organizations and the...

This book is a ground-breaking intervention on Dalit politics in India. Challenging received ideas, it uses a comparative framework to understand Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice. The monograph traces the emergence of Dalit consciousness and its different strands in north and south India - from colonial to contemporary times - and interrogates key notions and events. These include:

• the debate regarding core themes such as the Hindu-Muslim cleavage in the north and caste in the south;
• the extent to which...

Despite decades of attempts and the best intentions of its members, the United States Supreme Court has failed to develop a coherent jurisprudence regarding the state s proper relationship to the individual. Without some objective standard upon which to ground jurisprudence, decisions have moved along a spectrum between freedom and authority and back again, affecting issues as diverse as individual contractual liberties and the right to privacy.

Social Contract Theory in American Jurisprudence seeks to reintroduce the lessons of modern political philosophy to offer a...

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa? Can we be genuinely free "and" live in sustainable societies? This book argues that we can, if we recognise and celebrate our ecological embeddedness, rather than seeking to transcend it.

But this does not mean freedom can simply be redefined to fit within ecological limits. Addressing current unsustainability will involve significant restrictions, and hence will require political justification, not just scientific evidence.

Drawing on material from perfectionist liberalism, capabilities approaches,...