Rule Breaking And Political Imagination

Author : Kenneth A. Shepsle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226473352

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Rule Breaking and Political Imagination by Kenneth A. Shepsle Pdf

“Imagination may be thought of as a ‘work-around.’ It is a resourceful tactic to ‘undo’ a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it. . . . Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation; it is defiance pure and simple. Whether imagination or disobedience is the source, constraints need not constrain, ties need not bind.” So writes Kenneth A. Shepsle in his introduction to Rule Breaking and Political Imagination. Institutions are thought to channel the choices of individual actors. But what about when they do not? Throughout history, leaders and politicians have used imagination and transgression to break with constraints upon their agency. Shepsle ranges from ancient Rome to the United States Senate, and from Lyndon B. Johnson to the British House of Commons. He also explores rule breaking in less formal contexts, such as vigilantism in the Old West and the CIA’s actions in the wake of 9/11. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Rule Breaking and Political Imagination will prompt a reassessment of the nature of institutions and remind us of the critical role of political mavericks.

Author : Joseph E. Uscinski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190844073

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Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them by Joseph E. Uscinski Pdf

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience has increased for a variety of reasons including the increasing access to information among ordinary people, a pervasive sense of powerlessness among those same people, and a widespread distrust of elites. Working in combination, these factors and many other factors are now propelling conspiracy theories into our public sphere on a vast scale. In recent years, scholars have begun to study this genuinely important phenomenon in a concerted way. In Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Joseph E. Uscinski has gathered forty top researchers on the topic to provide both the foundational tools and the evidence to better understand conspiracy theories in the United States and around the world. Each chapter is informed by three core questions: Why do so many people believe in conspiracy theories? What are the effects of such theories when they take hold in the public? What can or should be done about the phenomenon? Combining systematic analysis and cutting-edge empirical research, this volume will help us better understand an extremely important, yet relatively neglected, phenomenon.

Author : Joseph R. A. Ayee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031547447

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Political Institutions, Party Politics and Communication in Ghana by Joseph R. A. Ayee Pdf

Author : Christina L. Boyd,Michael J. Nelson,Ian Ostrander,Ethan D. Boldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197554708

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The Politics of Federal Prosecution by Christina L. Boyd,Michael J. Nelson,Ian Ostrander,Ethan D. Boldt Pdf

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts. While U.S. Attorneys take pains to emphasize their independence, we know relatively little about the extent to which politics colors federal prosecutorial staffing and decision making. The Politics of Federal Prosecution draws upon a wealth of data from 1990s to the present to examine the interplay of political factors and federal prosecution. First, the authors find that congressional and presidential politics affect who becomes federal prosecutors and how long those individuals serve. Second, the book demonstrates that signals of presidential and congressional preferences, along with local priorities, affect key prosecutorial decisions: whether to bring prosecutions, how to approach plea bargaining negotiations, and when to utilize criminal asset forfeiture to cripple criminal activities. In short, the book demonstrates that politics affects the behavior of U.S. Attorneys at nearly every stage of their service.

Author : Eric Alston,Lee J. Alston,Bernardo Mueller,Tomas Nonnenmacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107086371

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Institutional and Organizational Analysis by Eric Alston,Lee J. Alston,Bernardo Mueller,Tomas Nonnenmacher Pdf

Why isn't the whole world developed? This toolkit for institutional analysis explains how rules affect the performance of countries, firms, and even families.

Author : Gregory Shaffer,Ely Aaronson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108836586

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Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice by Gregory Shaffer,Ely Aaronson Pdf

A new approach for studying the interaction between international and domestic processes of criminal law-making in today's globalized world.

Author : Daniel Béland,Kimberly J. Morgan,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192563477

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Daniel Béland,Kimberly J. Morgan,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson Pdf

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of Ethics, History, Approaches, Inputs and Actors, Policies, Policy Outcomes, and Worlds of Welfare. A final chapter is devoted to the future of welfare and well-being under the imperatives of climate change. Every chapter is written in a way that is both comprehensive and succinct, introducing the novice reader to the essentials of what is going on while providing new insights for the more experienced researcher. Wherever appropriate, the handbook brings the very latest empirical evidence to bear. It is a book that is thoroughly comparative in every way. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition, is a comprehensible and comprehensive survey of everything that it is important to know about the welfare state in these troubled times. It is an indispensable source for everyone who wants to know what is really going on now, and what is likely to happen next.

Author : Nicolò Bellanca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030006952

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Isocracy by Nicolò Bellanca Pdf

In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central idea of the first approach is isonomy: the exclusion of any discrimination on the basis that legal rights are afforded equally to all people. The central idea of the second approach is rather to acknowledge and address a broader spectrum of known inequalities. Such an approach, Bellanca argues, allows the pursuit of pluralism as well as a more realistic and complex view of what equality is. Here he analyzes the main economic and political institutions of an isocratic society, and in so doing, effectively outlines how a utopian society can be structurally and anthropologically realized. This book is ideal reading for an audience interested in the critique of contemporary capitalism through a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and leftist libertarianism. Nicolò Bellanca is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of a broad array of scholarly articles, books and textbooks about both the history of economic thought and development economics. His current research focuses on the theory of institutional change.

Author : Jason Frank
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742548169

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Publius and Political Imagination by Jason Frank Pdf

Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist reading of The Federalist Papers—perhaps the most canonical text in American political thought—counters familiar realist and deliberativist interpretations and demonstrates the neglected importance of political imagination to both Publius's arguments and to the republic he was invented to found.

Author : Roger Manning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474258722

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War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination by Roger Manning Pdf

The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at war and peace through the ages, from the Classical world through to the 18th century. It considers the nature and advocacy of war and peace both from an historical perspective but also a philosophical one, particularly looking at how universal peace, which began as a personal philosophy, became over the centuries a political philosophy that underpins much of modern society's attitudes towards warfare and militarism. Roger Manning begins his journey through history by looking at the Greek martial ethos and philosophical concepts of peace and war in the ancient world; moving through the Roman empire's military advances, he explores the concepts of war and peace in the medieval world and the Renaissance, with the writing of Machiavelli and Erasmus; finally, his account of the search for a science of peace in the 17th and 18th centuries brings the book to its conclusion.

Author : Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400828975

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On the Side of the Angels by Nancy L. Rosenblum Pdf

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby arenas of ambition, obstacles to meaningful political participation and deliberation. On the Side of the Angels is a vigorous defense of the virtues of parties and partisanship, and their worth as a subject for political theory. Nancy Rosenblum's account moves between political theory and political science, and she uses resources from both fields to outline an appreciation of parties and the moral distinctiveness of partisanship. She draws from the history of political thought and identifies the main lines of opposition to parties, as well as the rare but significant moments of appreciation. Rosenblum then sets forth her own theoretical appreciation of parties and partisanship. She discusses the achievement of parties in regulating rivalries, channeling political energies, and creating the lines of division that make pluralist politics meaningful. She defends "partisan" as a political identity over the much-vaunted status of "independent," and she considers where contemporary democracies should draw the line in banning parties. On the Side of the Angels offers an ethics of partisanship that speaks to questions of centrism, extremism, and polarization in American party politics. By rescuing parties from their status as orphans of political philosophy, Rosenblum fills a significant void in political and democratic theory.

Author : Aaron Fichtelberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317107651

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Law at the Vanishing Point by Aaron Fichtelberg Pdf

Two central questions are at the core of international legal theory: 'What is international law?', and 'Is international law really law?' This volume examines these critical questions and the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. Engaging with both contemporary and historical legal theory and with an analysis of international law in action, the book builds an understanding and theory of law from the perspective of those who actually use this legal system and understand it, rather than constructing an artificial system from the standpoint of political scientists and moral philosophers. Law at the Vanishing Point provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law either to ethics or to politics and provides a critical new appraisal of its power as an independent force in human social relations.

Author : Sheldon Brown,Luca Tateo
Publisher : IAP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781641134736

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The Method of Imagination by Sheldon Brown,Luca Tateo Pdf

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book “The Method of Imagination” is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological studies. The volume is an innovative multidisciplinary exploration in the study of imaginative processes as complex phenomena. It covers a wide range of fields, from psychology to sociology, from art and design to marketing and education. The book gathers young and experienced scholars from 6 different countries worldwide, providing a fresh look into the theoretical, methodological and applicative aspects of imagination studies. The audience for this book includes scholars and students in social and human sciences interested in the study and the use of imaginative processes. The volume can be also used as textbook/integrative reading in undergrad and master courses.

Author : David C. Flatto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674249585

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The Crown and the Courts by David C. Flatto Pdf

A scholar of law and religion uncovers a surprising origin story behind the idea of the separation of powers. The separation of powers is a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, but striking antecedents were developed centuries earlier, by Jewish scholars and rabbis of antiquity. Attending carefully to their seminal works and the historical milieu, David Flatto shows how a foundation of democratic rule was contemplated and justified long before liberal democracy was born. During the formative Second Temple and early rabbinic eras (the fourth century BCE to the third century CE), Jewish thinkers had to confront the nature of legal authority from the standpoint of the disempowered. Jews struggled against the idea that a legal authority stemming from God could reside in the hands of an imperious ruler (even a hypothetical Judaic monarch). Instead scholars and rabbis argued that such authority lay with independent courts and the law itself. Over time, they proposed various permutations of this ideal. Many of these envisioned distinct juridical and political powers, with a supreme law demarcating the respective jurisdictions of each sphere. Flatto explores key Second Temple and rabbinic writings—the Qumran scrolls; the philosophy and history of Philo and Josephus; the Mishnah, Tosefta, Midrash, and Talmud—to uncover these transformative notions of governance. The Crown and the Courts argues that by proclaiming the supremacy of law in the absence of power, postbiblical thinkers emphasized the centrality of law in the people’s covenant with God, helping to revitalize Jewish life and establish allegiance to legal order. These scholars proved not only creative but also prescient. Their profound ideas about the autonomy of law reverberate to this day.

Author : John S. Dryzek,Bonnie Honig,Anne Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199548439

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory by John S. Dryzek,Bonnie Honig,Anne Phillips Pdf

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.