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The place of the concept of ideology in Karl Marx's thought is examined through a reading of his works. Marx's central concern was the relation between ideology & science, meaning, in particular, economic science. Marx found genuine scientific merit in the physiocrats, Adam Smith & David Ricardo, while dismissing many later economists as seeking to transform economics into a defense of capitalism. Marx further suggests that, as the classical economists present the bourgeois view of economic processes, the socialists & communists present the proletarian view. W. H. Stoddard.

Representing democracy and the development of the political persona in the XIXth century Romanian political discourse means, first of all, to focus the analysis on the implications the concept of democracy could provide. In the first half of the XIXth century, the concept of Romanian democracy and its place within political discourse are conditioned by philosophical and historiographical discontinuities between the periods, the intellectual sources, as well as the political and institutional framework of that time. Within that context, democracy should be regarded as a fundamental concept to political and institutional development in the beginning of the XIXth century. The present article goes on this path, analyzing some examples of political discourse during the period of establishment of the fundamental democratic institutions in the Romanian modernity.

The scholarship on interwar Romania has routinely explored the relationship between monarchism and nationalism, especially under King Carol II (1930-1940). The royalist ideology developed during his reign was grounded on the idea of a leader destined to lead an endeavour of national regeneration. The official propaganda and the King's supporters have always presented the monarch's political, cultural or social initiatives as being oriented towards achieving this goal. In order to explore the way in which the rise of monarchical authoritarianism is legitimized by modernist ideas and practices, this article applies a conceptual framework used by the British scholar Roger Griffin in an attempt to understand the nature of the symbiosis between monarchism and projects of national renewal in 1930's Romania.

Rezension von: Political science in history: research programs and political traditions. / James Farr ... (ed.). - Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1995