Search results for: “political science history”
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Political Science History
Political Science: History of the Discipline Origins and DevelopmentIntroduction to Political Science HistoryThe systematic study of politics dates to ancient times. The oldest legal and administrative code that survives in its entirety is the Code of Hammurabi, inscribed on a pill…
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Political History as Science
Political History as Science The New Political History as Science While the origins and presuppositions of the new political history were diverse and complex, they are easy to trace because the new genre was far more conscious of methodology than historians had ever been before. Newsletters, journals and training programs were established to study and…
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Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States
Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best American and European Writers Subjects of the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best…
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Cultural Political Economy
Cultural Political Economy W.H. Sewell argued, in “The Concept(s) of Culture” (in V. Bonnell, and L. Hunt (eds.) Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture), “the system has no existence apart from the succession of practices that instantiate, reproduce, or – most interestingly – transform it. Hence system implies…
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Political History
Political History Introduction From the beginning of recorded history, one aspect of the political world that has become clear over the years is that it is never static for a long period of time. Nations may last for centuries or more, but an examination of nearly any state’s political history will demonstrate that change is…
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Political Obligation
Political Obligation In relation to Legal Authority and Obligation, see also the entries about Legal Authority (here), Obligations in the Law (here) and Normativity of Law (here). A. P. D’Entrèves, in his 1968 paper titled “On the Nature of Political Obligation” (Philosophy 43 (166):309 – 323) argues that the phrase ‘political obligation’ is far more…
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Political Obligation
Political Obligation In relation to Legal Authority and Obligation, see also the entries about Legal Authority (here), Obligations in the Law (here) and Normativity of Law (here). A. P. D’Entrèves, in his 1968 paper titled “On the Nature of Political Obligation” (Philosophy 43 (166):309 – 323) argues that the phrase ‘political obligation’ is far more…
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Political Corruption
Political Corruption Definition Passas [1] wrote that political corruption comprises “public officials acting in the best interest of private concerns, regardless of, or against, the public interest. Therefore, corruption can be defined as the covert privatization of government functions.” Kaufmann and Vicente (2011) make a similar case and contend that corruption need not be exclusive…