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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
To some, the word populism suggests the tyranny of the mob; to
others, it suggests a xenophobic nativism. It is often even
considered conducive to (if not simply identical to) fascism. In
Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled
Populism, Walter Horn uses his theory of "CHOICE Voluntarism" to
offer solutions to some of the most perplexing problems in
democratic theory and distill populism to its core premise: giving
people the power to govern themselves without the constraints
imposed by those on the left or the right. Beginning with
explanations of what it means to vote and what makes one society
better off than another, Horn analyzes what makes for fair
aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation. Through
his examination of the American government, Horn suggests solutions
to contemporary problems such as gerrymandering, immigration
control, and campaign finance, and offers answers to age-old
questions like why dissenters should obey the majority and who
should have the right to vote in various elections.
This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew
out of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey, and their legacies in
society and politics. It is the third volume in a series dedicated
to the combined analysis of the Ottoman Great War and the Armenian
Genocide. In Australia and New Zealand, and even more in the
post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World War still
has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. For the
post-Ottoman regions, the first of the two World Wars, which ended
Ottoman rule, was the formative experience. This volume analyses
this complex configuration: why these entanglements became
possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have been
constructed over the past hundred years, and how differing
historiographies have developed. Remembering the Great War in the
Middle East reaches towards a new conceptualization of the “long
last Ottoman decade” (1912-22), one that places this era and its
actors more firmly at the center, instead of on the periphery, of a
history of a Greater Europe, a history comprising – as
contemporary maps did – Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world.
Since the Second World War, constitutional justice has spread
through much of the democratic world. Often it has followed in the
wake of national calamity and historical evil - whether fascism or
communism, colonialism or apartheid. Unsurprisingly, the memory of
such evils plays a prominent role in constitutional adjudication.
This book explores the relationship between constitutional
interpretation and the memory of historical evil. Specifically, it
examines how the constitutional courts of the United States,
Germany, and South Africa have grappled, respectively, with the
legacies of slavery, Nazism, and apartheid. Most courts invoke
historical evil through either the parenthetical or the redemptive
mode of constitutional memory. The parenthetical framework views
the evil era as exceptional - a baleful aberration from an
otherwise noble and worthy constitutional tradition. Parenthetical
jurisprudence reaches beyond the evil era toward stable and
enduring values. It sees the constitutional response to evil as
restorative rather than revolutionary - a return to and
reaffirmation of older traditions. The redemptive mode, by
contrast, is more aggressive. Its aim is not to resume a venerable
tradition but to reverse recent ills. Its animating spirit is not
restoration, but antithesis. Its aim is not continuity with deeper
pasts, but a redemptive future stemming from a stark, complete, and
vivid rupture. This book demonstrates how, across the three
jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode has often accompanied
formalist and originalist approaches to constitutional
interpretation, whereas the redemptive mode has accompanied realist
and purposive approaches. It also shows how, within the three
jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode of memory has consistently
predominated in American constitutional jurisprudence; the
redemptive mode in South African jurisprudence; and a hybrid,
parenthetical-redemptive mode in German constitutional
jurisprudence. The real-world consequences of these trends have
been stark and dramatic. Memory matters, especially in
constitutional interpretation.
From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and
Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the
American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of
modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on
the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in
the world. This book examines the union of the island, development
of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well
as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes.
Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the
countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and
the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions
in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.
The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis
of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and
development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various
factors - political, social and religious - that produced the
revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution
primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the
governing class around the monarchy into the contending sides of
the Court and the Country. A principal theme is the formation
within the governing class of an opposition movement to the Crown.
The role of Puritanism and of the towns is examined, and the
resistance to Charles I is considered in relation to other European
revolutions of the period.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the
political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century,
examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive
event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical
significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its
causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad
social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's
having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage
done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous
artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The
Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in
cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the
choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections,
pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the
Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended
Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist
of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the
ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954)
examines the large range of political doctrines which played their
part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic
ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645,
when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider
implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to
power, is here studied in detail.
Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution
against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the
economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first
beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the
Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war.
The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their
democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of
ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events,
and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century
England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional
and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new. It
takes a careful look at the religious and particularly political
ideas of the Nonjurors, a sect that argued for the moral
foundations of a State and the sacredness of moral obligations in
public life.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes
issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and
influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49. This book
collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom
available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.
This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of
the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas
were implemented by the nation's early presidents. The framers of
the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new executive
role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways the
duties and power of the office developed contrary to many
expectations.Here, leading scholars of the Early Republic examine
principles from European thought and culture that were key to
establishing the conceptual language and institutional parameters
for the American executive office. Unpacking the debates at the
1787 Constitutional Convention, these essays describe how the
Constitution left room for the first presidents to set patterns of
behavior and establish a range of duties to make the office
functional within a governmental system of checks and balances.
Contributors explore how these presidents understood their
positions and fleshed out their full responsibilities according to
the everyday operations required to succeed. As disputes continue
to surround the limits of executive power today, this volume helps
identify and explain the circumstances in which limits can be
imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously exceed the
constitutional parameters of their office. Political Thought and
the Origins of the American Presidency demonstrates that this
distinctive, time-tested role developed from a fraught,
historically contingent, and contested process.
With the equality and liberty of the Declaration of Independence as
his fighting words, Thomas Jefferson created American democracy.
For the two hundred years since then, he has been studied and
debated worldwide, but never more intensely than in recent years.
His extensive and influential understanding of democracy's
foundation in reason and nature continue to make him one of the
most examined American founders. Thomas Jefferson and the Politics
of Nature is a collection of the very best current scholarship
devoted to Thomas Jefferson as politician, writer, philosopher,
Christian, and economist. Lead essayist Michael Zuckert presents
his comprehensive interpretation of Jefferson's political thought,
which Zuckert considers the best theoretical approach to democracy.
While Zuckert moderates Jefferson's natural rights philosophy with
a Kantian perspective, Jean Yarbrough responds with the argument
that Jefferson incorporates the authors of the Scottish
Enlightenment and principles from the Republican tradition to
achieve the same moderating effect. Garrett Ward Sheldon looks at
the broader cultural influences shaping Jefferson's thought and
traces his republicanism to his support of Christian ethics and
Aristotle. R. Booth Fowler examines why Jefferson, the leading
liberal theorist of the nineteenth century, became the hero of the
very different liberalism of the twentieth. Robert Dawidoff
considers Jefferson as writer and literary figure instead of
political thinker and actor, while Joyce Appleby renews an
appreciation of Jefferson's statecraft by a famous reexamination of
his commercial agrarian policy. Finally, James Ceaser traces
Jefferson's belief in racial inferiority to a speculative new
natural science prominent among contemporary European thinkers and
argues that Jefferson committed a significant error in reducing
politics to such conjectural "facts." This compact text is ideal
for professors wishing to offer a one-volume collection of current
Jeffersonian scholarship to undergraduate students. Professors and
students alike will find that the essays contain prompt, focused,
substantive discussions on the key issues facing Jeffersonian
scholars. This handy collection will be an invaluable classroom
tool for those studying not only Jefferson but also history,
political philosophy, and science, as well as the history of ideas.
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