Download or read book The Political Philosophy of the European City written by Ferenc Hörcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of the community of urban citizens, called ‘civitas’, united by local customs, or even a formal or informal urban constitution at a certain location, which had a recognizable countenance, with natural and man-made, architectural marks, called ‘urbs’. Recalling the golden age of the European city in ancient Greece and Rome, and offering a detailed description of its turbulent life in the Renaissance Italian city-states, it makes a case for the city not only as a hotbed of modern democracy, but also as a remedy for some of the distortions of political life in the alienated contemporary, centralized, Weberian bureaucratic state. Overcoming the north-south divide, or the core and periphery partition, the book’s material is particularly rich in Central European case studies. All in all, it is an enjoyable read which offers sound arguments to revisit the offer of the small and middle-sized European town, in search of a more sustainable future for Europe.
Download or read book A Republican Europe of States written by Richard Bellamy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.
Download or read book Europe in Search of Political Order written by Johan P. Olsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most influential Political Scientists provides an innovative perspective on institutional change and reform in the EU.
Download or read book Transforming the European Nation State written by Kjell Goldmann and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces and maps the complex interaction between internationalization, nation-state and democracy to provide a new basis for understanding political change in contemporary Europe. The book: introduces the concept of internationalization, considers how it relates to its near-synonoym globalization, and explains the dynamics of the internationalization process; assesses the impact and implications for nation-states, national identities and political cultures; and addresses the problem of making internationalized democracy work at national and European levels. Throughout the text theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of empirical examples from across Europe.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Sketch of the Political State of Europe at the beginning of February 1805 Second edition written by William HUNTER (Barrister-at-Law.) and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe Explaining the Interests Connections Political and Commercial Views of Its Several Powers Etc By John Campbell written by and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sketch of the Political State of Europe at the Beginning of February 1805 written by William Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe written by Samuël Kruizinga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than simply assuming that some states are small and others are big, The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe delves deep into the construction of different size-based hierarchies in Europe and explores the way Europeans have thought about their own state's size and that of their continental neighbours since the early 19th century. By positing that ideas about size are intimately connected with both basic discourses about a state's identity and policy discourses about the range of options most appropriate to that state, this multi-contributor volume presents a novel way of thinking about what makes one state, in the eyes of both its own inhabitants and those of others, different from others, and what effects these perceived differences have had, and continue to have, on domestic, European, and global politics. Bringing together an international team of historians and political scientists, this nuanced and sophisticated study examines the connections between shifting ideas about a state's (relative) size, competing notions of national interest and mission, and international policy in modern Europe and beyond.
Download or read book Political Conflict in Western Europe written by Hanspeter Kriesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the twenty-first century? And how does the transformation of territorial boundaries affect the scope and content of political conflicts? This book sets out to answer these questions by analyzing the results of a study of national and European electoral campaigns, protest events and public debates in six West European countries. While the mobilization of the losers in the processes of globalization by new right populist parties is seen to be the driving force of the restructuring of West European politics, the book goes beyond party politics. It attempts to show how the cleavage coalitions that are shaping up under the impact of globalization extend to state actors, interest groups and social movement organizations, and how the new conflicts are framed by the various actors involved.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Present State of Europe: Explaining the Interests, Connections, Political and Commercial Views of Its Several Powers It may be expeeted that the Foundation of this fort of Know ledge, ought to behid from the Petulal of Books relatin to the Confiitutions, Laws, and Government of the ref iv. Countries, not without an lnfight alfo into their Antiquities. But if we confider firfi how laborious as well as how tedious an Undertaki this would be; and next how ver little thole Men are, er'a'fiy fpeaking, (killed in the political nterefls of their ref 've Countries, who are bell verfed in their Laws and Con fiitntions, or deepdi read in their Records and Antiquities, we flnll very eafily difcern, thatas this Method would be in a gut meafors impraaicable; (0 allowing it to he never (0 eal'y, it wwld neverthelefs be very wide of anfwering the Purpofe. Yet I am very far from afl'erting, that it ought to be totally difi'e garded; far from it, that if a Man has Leifure, Opportu nity, and Abilities, to look into thefe Things, he will hardly have Ocmfion to complain, Bthat his T ime has bred mil-fpeot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Empowering Interactions written by Wim Blockmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institutional structures. By not privileging the role of warfare and of elite coercion for state building, it is possible to question the traditional top-down model and explore the degree to which central agencies might have been more important for state representation than for state practice. The studies included in this collection treat many parts of Europe and deal with different phases in the period between the late middle ages and the nineteenth century. Beginning with a critical review of state historiography, the introduction then sets out the concept of 'empowering interactions' which is then explored in the subsequent case studies and a number of historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays. Taken as a whole this collection provides a fascinating platform to reconsider the relationships between top-down and bottom-up processes in the history of the European state.
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by John Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Present State of Europe: Explaining the Interests, Connections, Political and Commercial Views of Its Several Powers, Comprehending Also, a Clear and Concise History of Each Country, So Far as Is Necessary to Shew the Nature O Their Present Constitutions Reading the general Hiltories of all Nations, but more efpeciall thofe that are molt in Bfieem, is a readier, an caller, and a better Help than the former; but this mull be ufed with Caution. It will ferve to give us tolerable Notions of great Events, diltinguithed Charaeters, important Revolutions, and their Confequences. But we muft alwa s remember, that the Hifiorian has a natural, and perhaps a laudable Partiality for his Country; and that to be clearly Matter of the Truth, one o ht to compare his Accounts with thofe that are ven by the riters of other. Nations, which is likewife a ork of much Labour and Fatigue. We lhould likewil'e refleet, that in neral Hiltories the Compafs, with Refpea' to Time and F 46596, is (0 large, that the Springs and Motives, which is what a Politician chiefly looks for, are feldom [ct down; and that where they are, it requires mwh Skill and great Cir cumfpeetion to difcern whether they are whol'ly', or even how far they may be depended upon. Yet this ay has its.ufes; and there is in Reality no better Method of forming a ri t Idea of the Spirit, Genius, and Temper of a Nation, thanfy peruling their Hiltories; for by knowing what a Nation has done or (uttered, when that comes to be the Point under Confideration, we ma belt judge what they can atchieve, _or to what Degree the will, bear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
