Nelson's Political Science Library
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Author | : Maurice Duverger |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : 9780177110986 |
Author | : Barry Holden |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Leslie John Macfarlane |
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Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780064944526 |
Author | : Eric Nelson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674050587 |
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.
Author | : K. W. Watkins |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780177111273 |
Author | : Joan M. Nelson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400885973 |
Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-encompassing theory to explain the political behavior of the urban poor, Professor Nelson emphasizes the complex variety in the economic, social, and political circumstances that influence this behavior. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Lawrence J. R. Herson |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780830414581 |
Two eminent scholars of urban politics present a fresh analysis of politics and policy in American cities. The central metaphor of the book is the Urban Web--the complex system of relationships among history, economics, demographics, geography, psychology, race, relations, and government policy. This web responds to every push or pull, and profoundly affects teh outcome of policy. The book presents ten theories of urban politics showing how each theory provides only a part of the overall picture. The authors provide new interpretations of political topics while attempting to convey the experience of two veteran observers of the American urban political scene.
Author | : Barbara J. Nelson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2016-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022622001X |
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.