The Polity of Reason, Or, Thé Rationale of Government
Author | : Alphonse de Lamartine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alphonse de Lamartine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. John Ikenberry |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501726331 |
No detailed description available for "Reasons of State".
Author | : James Bohman |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262522410 |
The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
Author | : Geoffrey Brennan |
Publisher | : Collected Works of James M. Bu |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780865972315 |
In his foreword, Robert D Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M Buchanan's THE REASON OF RULES: "...a book-length attempt to focus the energies of economists and other social analysts on the nature and function of the rules under which ordinary political life and market life function." In persuasive style, Brennan and Buchanan argue that too often economists become mired in explaining the obvious or constructing elaborate mathematical models to shed light on trivial phenomena. Their solution: economics as a discipline would be better focused on deriving normative procedures for establishing rules so that ordinary economic life can proceed unaffected as much as possible by social issues. In THE REASON OF RULES, Brennan and Buchanan sketch out a methodological and analytical framework for the establishment of rules. They point out that the consideration of rules has its roots in classical economics and has been hinted at in the work of some contemporary economists. But the enterprise of applying the analytical rigor of modern economics to the establishment of effective rules is the little-traveled road that bears the most promise. In fact, the basic idea of the importance of rules is a thread that runs through virtually the whole of Buchanan's distinguished career, and it is one of his signal contributions to the contemporary discipline of economics. THE REASON OF RULES is an elaboration of the potential for rules and the normative process by which they can best be devised.
Author | : John Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1776 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.
Author | : Sheila Jasanoff |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136288406 |
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legitimacy in an era of potentially unbounded risks—physical, political, and moral. Those legitimating efforts, in turn, depend on citizens’ acceptance of the forms of reasoning that governments offer. Included here therefore is an inquiry into the conditions that lead citizens of democratic societies to accept policy justification as being reasonable. These modes of public knowing, or “civic epistemologies,” are integral to the constitution of contemporary political cultures. Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on divergent cross-cultural constructions of public reason and the reasoning political subject. The collection as a whole contributes to democratic theory, legal studies, comparative politics, geography, and ethnographies of modernity, as well as STS.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 1981-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141913266 |
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.
Author | : Odus V. Elliott |
Publisher | : OUP Us |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2002-02-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195136659 |
The new tools of public action have come to rely heavily on third parties - private businesses, nonprofit organisations, and other levels of government - for their operation. The Tools of Government is a comprehensive guide to the operation of these tools and to the management, accountability, policy, and theoretical issues they pose.