The article begins with the realist assumption in political science that posits that political
violence and chaos occurs in the absence of the state, and that the international system is …

1. Background In 1960, EE Schattschneider pointed out that, contrary to the prevailing
pluralist myth, marked disparities existed in the extent to which Americans were organized …

This article examines citizenspeak, or the discourses available to citizens talking about
politics. The paper is based on 81 interviews with voters in Bristol, England, during the 2001 …

Recently, political deliberation has undergone intensive theoretical scrutiny. While the
amount of scholarship on deliberation has been on the rise, it has been limited to a …

A timely examination of Alabama's severely criticized state constitution Alabama's present
constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the …

Dit artikel biedt een overzicht van ontwikkelingen in politieke betrokkenheid en participatie
van de Ne derlandse bevolking sinds 1970. Bevindingen zijn onder andere een minstens …

This study was grounded in the theory and practice of transformational leadership, where
leaders function as moral agents of change as they facilitate values talk (moral discourse) …

In the weeks following the 2000 US national elections an extraordinary thing happened: The
public itself, or a shadowy facsimile thereof, took center stage in the news, as report after …

My research seeks to reconceive the idea of a classic rhetoric, with political concerns
informed by speech-act theory and critical theory, to invigorate student writing in English …

Extremism is a label covering a variety of behaviors characterized by goals and methods not
shared by the majority of the people. Extremism is a matter of freedom in terms of personal …