Thus Luther is responsible for the notion, central to questions of identity, that the inner self is deep and possesses many layers that can be exposed only through private introspection.
Unrepresentative interest groups are not simply creatures of corporate America and the Right. Some of the most powerful organizations in democratic countries have been trade unions, followed by enviro...
When a rural Greek is hospitalized, relatives are in constant attendance to keep a check on the doctor and the treatment he prescribes.
The promotion of self-esteem enabled not human potential but a crippling narcissism, indeed, a narcissism that he felt had come to characterize American society as a whole.
إن أولئك الذين درسوا تكرار قيام و سقوط دول كبيرة معينة في الماضي، و قارنوها بقيام و سقوط الدول الكبيرة في التاريخ المعاصر، ليسوا مخطئين في إشارتهم لأوجه التشابه، غير أن تكرار ظهور أنماط تاريخية معينة...
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...
A lot of historical writing has been characterized as ODTAA—one damn thing after another—without an effort to extract general rules or causal theories that can be applied in other circumstances.
A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong and decisive action.
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...
At the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, only white males with property had full political rights; the circle of rights bearers gradually expanded to include white men without...
Between economic growth and stable democracy The correlation between development and democracy was first noted by the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset in the late 1950s, and ever since then there hav...
By taking on political correctness so frontally, Trump has played a critical role in moving the focus of identity politics from the left, where it was born, to the right, where it is now taking root....
Cognitive rigidities may also prevent social groups from mobilizing in their own self-interest. In the United States, many working-class voters support candidates promising to lower taxes on the wealt...
Democracy in the developed world became secure and stable as industrialization produced middle-class societies, that is, societies in which a significant majority of the population thought of themselv...
Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast have an alternative label for neopatrimonialism, what they call a limited access order, in which a coalition of rent-seeking elites use their political...
Eşit oranda tanınma talebinin işaret ettiği nokta, bir insanın rastlantısal ve olumsal bütün özellikleri ayıklandığında, belirli bir saygıyı hak eden insani bir öz niteliğin- buna X faktörü diyelim- k...
Friction-Free Economies Why is it necessary to turn to a cultural characteristic like spontaneous sociability to explain the existence of large-scale corporations in an economy, or prosperity more gen...
Germany, in other words, developed both a strong state and rule of law early on, well before it developed accountable government.
Greece thus became one of Europe’s first electoral democracies, preceding Britain by a full generation. As in the United States, democracy was established before an indigenous modern state could be cr...
He created, in the words of historian Hans Rosenberg, a first-rate army which had to be supported by a country which was third-rate in terms of manpower, natural wealth, capital supply, and economic s...
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