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Showing 1 to 20 of 353 for “"Political Theory"”.
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Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… critique and reconstruction of green moral and political theory. In chapter 1, the critical-reconstructive approach and spirit of the thesis is outlined in terms of contributing to the process of developing a green political theory that is different from 'ecologism' or ideological accounts of …
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Greenhouse Democracy: A Political Theory for Climate Change
… this dissertation argues that concerned political theorists and activists ought resist the dominant climate imaginary, and proposes the concept of ‘climate violence’ as a means of doing so. Once climate change is understood as a problem of violence – and therefore not only a technical and …
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A Political Theory of Accessibility and Care for Animals
… where and how animals most commonly experience political agency as an accessibility issue within their relationships and interactions with humans. Yet animal care is not usually viewed as animal politics, resulting in a failure to critically evaluate the nature of the politics that we do when …
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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory
… and methodological resources would it take for political theory to be able to more deeply analyze the emotional and affective dimensions of political life? In this dissertation, I articulate interdisciplinary work on affect and emotion into political theory in order to realize four linked …
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The Political Theory of Migration : A Critical Cosmopolitan Care Approach
… is to offer criticism of the mainstream political theory of migration and a substantive proposal, called the Critical Cosmopolitan Care approach for overcoming the deficiencies of the most mainstream literature. The criticism and the proposal are formulated on two levels. On the …
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Leviathan on a Leash: a political theory of state responsibility
… forgotten answers to these questions from the political thought of Thomas Hobbes. Its central claim is that Hobbes’ conception of the state as an “artificial person” is the key to understanding state responsibility, both theoretically and historically. The book uses Hobbes’ ideas to shed new …
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Situated Animals: A Critique of Social Constructivist Excesses in Political Theory
… this dissertation I explore the ramifications of political theory being freed from two opposed extremes of biologism and social constructivism because, ultimately, the human animal is both a biological creature and capable of becoming. While it has been highly significant for humanistic scholars …
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The Pure Heart: A Medieval Japanese Buddhist Political Theory of Legitimacy
… This means that to understand catalyzers of political change – even more so the legitimizing of new political dynamics – political theorists need to set aside their Eurocentric assumptions and start engaging with beliefs seriously again. Translating and applying an East-Asian commentary …
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Postmodernist Pedagogy's Effect on Doctoral Level Political Theory Instruction and Curriculum
Among the 123 political science programs listed by the American Political Science Association that grant Ph.D.s in political science, only seven require every student to complete some sort of political theory or philosophy course. Eighty-one offer students the opportunity to select political theory …
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Getting Over the Self: The Decentered Subject and Contemporary Political Theory
… on what has come to be called postmodern theory, there is no denying that this theoretical perspective is challenging the legitimacy of many of the traditional concepts of political and social theory. Foremost among these challenges is the opposition that postmodern theory pose to any …
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Silicon Valley and the State: Towards a Political Theory of Technology Corporations
… in general have been under-theorized within political theory, often thought of as exclusively the domain of economic or business concerns. This thesis thus seeks to explore a political theory of corporations. It asks: how can we conceptualize the power of corporations? Can and how do …
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Popes, politicians and political theory: The principle of subsidiarity in 20th century European history
… confusion for scholars of European integration. Political scientists have examined subsidiarity from the perspective of political philosophy to account for its transformation and to determine its impact on European integration. However, no attempt has been made to anchor the emergence of …
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The beginning of the end:the political theory of the German Communist Party to the third period
… theoretical guide to a Socialist outcome. As the political and economic climate in Germany changed the party grew and made parliamentary gains the nature of the SPD changed, much to the frustration of Rosa Luxemburg and the Left of the SPD. The final straw was, of course, the SPD’s voting for war …
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Neofunctionalism Vs Liberal Intergovernmentalism; The Creation Of The European Stability Mechanism And The Limits Of Political Theory
… of supranationalist or state-centric theory, with respect to the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the ""Pact for the Euro"" on March 25, 2011 in Brussels. After a 14-month long period of great controversy among the supranational agentsof the European Commission …
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Property as a human right?: a critical interpretation of John Locke's political theory of property and its contemporary significance
John Locke's political theory of property is influential, profound, but problematic.
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