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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Political science -- History."”.
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… in mass campaigns in twentieth-century American political culture. Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. Scholarship on …
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(Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region
… العربيّة ما بعد االستعمار from sociology, political science, history, geography, and anthropology, to differentiate between Weberian hegemonic states, following both Weber and Gramsci, and what I call (dys)functional polities. These, I argue, are endpoints on the spectrum of successive …
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
… theory of consciousness and noetic theory of history. It then turns to consider Voegelin's reading of Christianity, which makes a nuanced distinction between the superior Christian differentiation and its subsequent derailed expression. The thesis proposes that, for a variety of reasons, …
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Dr. Richard Price, the Marquis de Condorcet, and the Political Culture of Friendship in the Late Enlightenment
The eighteenth century saw many innovations in political culture including the rise of the public sphere where political ideas were freely and openly discussed and criticized. The new public sphere arose within the institutions of private life such as the Republic of Letters and salons, so the …
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Public Regulation through Private Litigation: The Regulatory Power of Private Lawsuits and the American Bureaucracy
… litigation and uncover the institutional and political conditions under which this legal enforcement strategy is employed over time. And then, from these archival observations, I construct original quantitative measures capturing the deployment of these legal enforcement strategies, and …