The rule of law constitutes a basic protection of individuals against tyrannical government. But in the second half of the twentieth century, law lost its focus as a constraint on government and becam...
The rule of law limits power by granting citizens certain basic rights—that is, in certain domains such as speech, association, property, and religious belief the state may not restrict individual cho...
The same process is unfolding in the early twenty-first century with passage of the Dodd-Frank bill regulating the financial sector: Congress delegated to the regulators the responsibility of writing...
The young Hegel witnessed Napoleon riding through his university town after the Battle of Jena in 1806 and saw in that act the incipient universalization of recognition in the form of the principles o...
There is intense populist distrust of elite institutions and demand either to abolish them (as in the case of the Federal Reserve) or to open up their internal deliberations to television and public s...
This is the meaning of state autonomy: a government that is responsive to interest groups but not owned by them, that is not too easily swayed by the short-term vagaries of democratic public opinion b...
This is, in effect, the essence of politics: the ability of leaders to get their way through a combination of authority, legitimacy, intimidation, negotiation, charisma, ideas, and organization.
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...
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...
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...
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.
What differed were conditions of climate and geography that, operating on the biology of otherwise indistinguishable individuals, produced systematic differences in political behavior. Slavery for him...
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...
It diverts attention from older and larger groups whose serious problems have been ignored. A significant part of the white American working class has been dragged into an underclass, comparable to th...
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
التدمير الإنتحاري الذي تسبب فيه النظام الاوروبي للدولة خلال حربين عالميتين هدم فكرة تفوق العقلانية الغربية، في حين أضحى من الصعب التمييز بين المتمدن و الهمجي –و هو تمييز كان غريزيا لدى الاوروبيين في ا...
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
نحن في حاجة إلى معيار يلم بالتاريخ كله حتى يمكننا الحكم على هديه على المجتمع الديموقراطي، و إلى مفهوم عن الانسان باعتباره انسانا يسمح لنا برؤية نقائصه الكامنة. و هذا هو السبب الذي دفعنا إلى أن ندرس ال...
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...
ستواجه عملية الأخد بالديموقراطية هي أيضاً مستقبلا يشوبه الغموض، و مع كثرة الشعوب في عالمنا التي تعتتقد على المستوى النظري أنها تريد الرخاء الرأسمالي و الديموقراطية اليبيرالية فلن يكون من المتاح للجميع...
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