Politics Or Principle

Author : Sarah A. Binder,Steven S. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815723512

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Politics or Principle? by Sarah A. Binder,Steven S. Smith Pdf

Is American democracy being derailed by the United States Senate filibuster? Is the filibuster an important right that improves the political process or an increasingly partisan tool that delays legislation and thwarts the will of the majority? Are century-old procedures in the Senate hampering the institution from fulfilling its role on the eve of the 21st century? The filibuster has achieved almost mythic proportions in the history of American politics, but it has escaped a careful, critical assessment for more than 50 years. In this book, Sarah Binder and Steven Smith provide such an assessment as they address the problems and conventional wisdom associated with the Senate's long-standing tradition of extended debate. The authors examine the evolution of the rules governing Senate debate, analyze the consequences of these rules, and evaluate reform proposals. They argue that in an era of unprecedented filibustering and related obstructionism, old habits are indeed undermining the Senate's ability to meet its responsibilities. Binder and Smith scrutinize conventional wisdom about the filibuster—and show that very little of it is true. They focus on five major myths: that unlimited debate is a fundamental right to differentiate the Senate from the House of Representatives; that the Senate's tradition as a deliberative body requires unlimited debate; that the filibuster is reserved for a few issues of the utmost national importance; that few measures are actually killed by the filibuster; and that senators resist changing the rules because of a principled commitment to deliberation. In revising conventional wisdom about the filibuster, Binder and Smith contribute to ongoing debates about the dynamics of institutional change in the American political system. The authors conclude by suggesting reforms intended to enhance the power of determined majorities while preserving the rights of chamber minorities. They advocate, for example, lowering the

Author : Edwin M. Coulter
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:39000002169683

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Principles of Politics and Government by Edwin M. Coulter Pdf

Author : Christopher Rudolph
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501708411

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Power and Principle by Christopher Rudolph Pdf

On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute some of the world’s most severe crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. While proponents extol the creation of the ICC as a transformative victory for principles of international humanitarian law, critics have often characterized it as either irrelevant or dangerous in a world dominated by power politics. Christopher Rudolph argues in Power and Principle that both perspectives are extreme. In contrast to prevailing scholarship, he shows how the interplay between power politics and international humanitarian law have shaped the institutional development of international criminal courts from Nuremberg to the ICC. Rudolph identifies the factors that drove the creation of international criminal courts, explains the politics behind their institutional design, and investigates the behavior of the ICC. Through the development and empirical testing of several theoretical frameworks, Power and Principle helps us better understand the factors that resulted in the emergence of international criminal courts and helps us determine the broader implications of their presence in society.

Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000081673240

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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Pdf

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 : David Ricardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Economics
ISBN : OXFORD:300151240

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On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo Pdf

Author : James M. Buchanan,Roger D. Congleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052103132X

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Politics by Principle, Not Interest by James M. Buchanan,Roger D. Congleton Pdf

In his treatise, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), F. A. Hayek emphasized the central role of the generality principle, as embodied in the rule of law, for the maintenance of a free society. This book extends Hayek's argument by applying the generality principle to politics. Several important policy implications emerge. There are no direct implications to suggest how much governments should do. The argument suggests strongly however, that, whatever is done politically, must be done generally rather than discriminatorily.

Author : Dean J KOTLOWSKI,Dean J Kotlowski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039735

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Nixon's Civil Rights by Dean J KOTLOWSKI,Dean J Kotlowski Pdf

In a groundbreaking new book, Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy.

Author : Sir Ernest Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Political science
ISBN : UCAL:B3358809

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Principles of Social and Political Theory by Sir Ernest Barker Pdf

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Economics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00307505

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Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Bernard Manin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521458919

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The Principles of Representative Government by Bernard Manin Pdf

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.

Author : Christopher Lynch,Jonathan Marks
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438461267

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Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought by Christopher Lynch,Jonathan Marks Pdf

Reflections on principle and prudence in the thoughts and actions of great thinkers and statesmen. Discussions of the place of moral principle in political practice are haunted by the abstract and misleading distinction between realism and its various principled or “idealist” alternatives. This volume argues that such discussions must be recast in terms of the relationship between principle and prudence: as Nathan Tarcov maintains, that relationship is “not dichotomous but complementary.” In a substantive introduction, the editors investigate Leo Strauss’s attack on contemporary political thought for its failure to account for both principle and prudence in politics. Leading commentators then reflect on principle and prudence in the writings of great thinkers such as Homer, Machiavelli, and Hegel, and in the thoughts and actions of great statesmen such as Pericles, Jefferson, and Lincoln. In a concluding section, contributors reassess Strauss’s own approach to principle and prudence in the history of political philosophy. Christopher Lynch is Professor of Political Science at Carthage College and the translator and editor of Machiavelli’s Art of War. Jonathan Marks is Professor of Politics at Ursinus College and the author of Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Author : A. R. Lord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500359945

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The Principles of Politics by A. R. Lord Pdf

Author : George E. G. Catlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000706833

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A Study of the Principles of Politics by George E. G. Catlin Pdf

Originally published in 1930, this title brings to its conclusion a work first published, in part, in the earlier volume The Science and Method of Politics. The work was undertaken at first with a view to discovering the forces at work which form the anatomy and determine the physiology of States. However, it became apparent that not States but Society must be the object of study if any progress were to made, and if the inquiry were to be radical enough to disclose, and indicate the means of controlling, the causes which conduce to such social disorders as war. The subject might very well have been treated from a very different point of view. However, the author felt that the approach to politics from the angle of political philosophy and the humanities was less important for the needs of the time than an approach from the angle of psychology and of statistics.

Author : Samuel Kernell,Steven S. Smith
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452226286

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Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 5th Edition by Samuel Kernell,Steven S. Smith Pdf

This collection examines the strategic behavior of key players in American politics from the Founding Fathers to the Super PACs, by showing that political actors, though motivated by their own interests, are governed by the Constitution, the law, and institutional rules, as well as influenced by the strategies of others.

Author : Jeff Flake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780399592911

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Conscience of a Conservative by Jeff Flake Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. Dear Reader, I am a conservative. I believe that there are limits to what government can and should do, that there are some problems that government cannot solve, and that human initiative is best when left unfettered, free from government interference or coercion. I believe that these ideas, tested by time, offer the most freedom and best outcomes in the lives of the most people. But today, the American conservative movement has lost its way. Given the state of our politics, it is no exaggeration to say that this is an urgent matter. The Republican party used to play to a broader audience, one that demanded that we accomplish something. But in this era of dysfunction, our primary accomplishment has been constructing the argument that we’re not to blame. We have decided that it is better to build and maintain a majority by using the levers of power rather than the art of persuasion and the battle of ideas. We’ve decided that putting party over country is okay. There are many on both sides of the aisle who think this a good model on which to build a political career—destroying, not building. And all the while, our country burns, our institutions are undermined, and our values are compromised. We have become so estranged from our principles that we no longer know what principle is. America is not just a collection of transactions. America is also a collection of ideas and values. And these are our values. These are our principles. They are not subject to change, owing to political fashion or cult of personality. I believe that we desperately need to get back to the rigorous, fact-based arguments that made us conservatives in the first place. We need to realize that the stakes are simply too high to remain silent and fall in line. That is why I have written this book and am taking this stand. —Jeff Flake