Indeed, the consensual nature of the EU itself has meant that EU-level institutions are far weaker than certain federal institutions in the United States. These weaknesses were made painfully evident...
In particular, the virtues and ambitions called forth by war are unlikely to find expression in liberal democracies. There will be plenty of metaphorical wars—corporate lawyers specializing in hostile...
In Europe, demands for expanded popular participation came on the heels of war; the rise of the British Labour Party in the 1920s, for example, was in some ways a consequence of the sufferings of the...
Family life, which constitutes the smallest and most basic form of association, has deteriorated markedly since the 1960s with a sharp increase in rates of divorce and single-parent families. Beyond t...
But what if Rousseau was wrong and that inner self was, as traditional moralists believed, the seat of asocial or harmful impulses, indeed of evil?
Between social mobilization and liberal democracy From Alexis de Tocqueville onward there has been a large body of democratic theory arguing that modern liberal democracy cannot exist without a vigoro...
Between rule of law and growth In the academic literature, the rule of law is sometimes considered a component of governance and sometimes considered a separate dimension of development (as I am doing...
Between economic growth and social development, or the development of civil society A lot of classic social theory links the emergence of modern civil society to economic development.28 Adam Smith in...
Americans can be proud of this very substantive identity; it is based on belief in the common political principles of constitutionalism, the rule of law, democratic accountability, and the principle t...
A free market, a vigorous civil society, the spontaneous wisdom of crowds are all important components of a working democracy, but none can ultimately replace the functions of a strong, hierarchical g...
Sorun, bilimsel araştırmalara ilişkin seçimleri bilimcilerin mi yoksa politikacıların mı yapacağı değil, üremeye ilişkin neyin doğru olduğu kararının anne babaların mı yoksa devletin mi vereceğidir. J...
يقول كارل ماركس :كان هيجل يعتقد أن العمل هو الجوهر الحقيقي للإنسان--- إن أي شخص قضى زمنا في السفر أو الإقامة خارج وطنه، لا يسعه إلا أن يلاحظ كيف تؤثر الحضارات و الثقافات القومية تأثيراً حاسماً في موقف...
إن مشروع الانسان بعد أن حرر نفسه من قيود الفلسفات السابقة التي كانت تؤمن باحتمال وجود حقيقة مطلقة أصبح يتمثل في اعادة تقييم كافة القيم بدءا بالقيم المسيحية، و قد سعى عامدا إلى زعزعة الايمان بالمساواة...
حروب نابليون الدموية باستطاعة الفلاسفة أن يفسروها في ضوء الحركة العريضة للمدنية على أنها في نتائجها تخدم التقدم الإجتماعي لأنها تساعد على انتشار مفهوم الحكومة الجمهورية
Men had been everywhere and had seen everything, life’s greatest experience had ended with most of life still to be lived, to find common purpose in the quiet days of peace would be hard
When we step back from contemporary American debates over family values, we find that the family paradoxically does not always play a positive role in promoting economic growth. The earlier social the...
War, as we saw in Volume 1, creates incentives for efficient, meritocratic government that ordinary economic activity does not and therefore is one important path to state modernity.
Unfortunately, the trading of political influence for money has come back in a big way in American politics, this time in a form that is perfectly legal and much harder to eradicate. Criminalized brib...
Trump represented a broader trend in international politics, toward what has been labeled populist nationalism.1 Populist leaders seek to use the legitimacy conferred by democratic elections to consol...
This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group’s dignity had been affronted, disparaged, o...