In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a
major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the …

In democracies, quiet people rarely enter politics. Democratic political life is dominated for
the most part by people who like to talk. Of course, there are exceptions, a few politicians …

The moral economic school, which has flourished among anthropologists, economic
historians, and classicists, has received only limited attention from political scientists. This is …

This book deals with ongoing processes of European cooperation and integration,
processes that may have a potential to change the political organization of Europe. Based …

Offering an ancient education for our times, Jill Frank's A Democracy of Distinction interprets
Aristotle's writings in a way that reimagines the foundations, aims, and practices of politics …

Two important criticisms of contemporary liberalism turn to Aristotle''s political thought for
support that which advocates participatory democracy, and that sympathetic to the rule of a …

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a
remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judith A. Swanson. In this fresh …

Asking whether a “Europeanization of the nation-state” is taking place, means calling
attention to ongoing changes in the European political order. In particular, attention is …

My aim in this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of the Aristotelian notion of civic
friendship to contemporary political discussion by arguing that it can function as a social …

Giorgio Agamben's critique of Western politics in Homo Sacer and three related books has
been highly influential in the humanities and social sciences. The critical social theory set …