In this timely book, Carol S. Weissert proves that federalism is highly relevant to the modern world and worthy of deeper academic study. Highlighting the dynamic nature of federalism, this book focuses on linking scholarship to the policy and politics of federalism in the US and across the world
There has been a great revival of interest in recent years in the concerns of Islamic political economy after several hundred years of hiatus in its long history. The independence of Muslim countries and the revival of Islamic movements around the world have been among the factors encouraging new interest among the Muslims and others in how economies and economic theory can be brought into line with the Islamic vision of a just society. Masudul Alam Choudhury shows that the contribution which Islamic political economy can make requires a study first of epistemological principles, about the purpose and sources of knowledge, the role of reason and the relationship between self-and social-interest in human affairs. The conclusions which arise from this analysis - about the role and limits of markets, the goal of combining efficiency and equity and the means of doing so with state provision of welfare everywhere in crisis - will prove illuminating to all of those interested in Islamic studies and political economy as well as to other observers and analysts of contemporary society.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Foreword: Why Islamic Political Economy? -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Dualism, Perception and World View -- 2 Post-Marxian, Post-Humean and Post-Kantian Epistemology: Towards the Unification of Knowledge -- 3 Evolutionary Epistemology and Ethical Social Choice in the Islamic Perspective -- 4 A Theory of Renewal and Continuity in Islamic Science -- 5 What is Islamic Political Economy? -- 6 Why Cannot Neoclassicism Explain Resource Allocation and Development in the Islamic Political Economy? -- 7 Integrating the Grassroots with Paradigms of Trade and Development: The Case of Malaysia -- 8 The Concept of Money in Islam -- Notes and References -- Index.
"This book represents a pioneering effort to offer an up-to-date overview of the state of the field of "Chinese political studies." It assesses the field's past, present, and future, emphasizing the role of Chinese scholars in transforming it both from within and outside of China. In the process, this book discusses the most hotly-debated problems, challenges, opportunities, achievements, and directions in terms of its disciplinary and intellectual developments. The book focuses on the epistemologically-oriented debate, i.e., the serious tensions between scientific, universalistic, positivist traditions on the one hand and particularistic, historical and contextual traditions in the study of Chinese politics on the other. The book also deals with the ontologically-oriented debate between scientific knowledge and local knowledge, i.e., between scientification/westernization (ke xue hua/xi fang hua) and indigenization (ben tu hua) of Chinese political studies, and thus their influences on the study of Chinese politics."--Publisher's website
Chapter 1. Political Epistemology: Positioning Science Studies -- Chapter 2. The Logic of Science and Technology as a Developmental Tendency of Modernity -- Chapter 3. On Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: The Marxist Struggle for Cultural Hegemony and HPS for a 'Free Society' -- Chapter 4. Toward a Socio-Political History of Science: From Structures to Hegemonies -- Chapter 5. Hegemony and Science: Epistemological and Historiographical Perspectives
Handbuch über die Hauptströmungen der Forschung und Lehre im Fachgebiet Politische Wissenschaft in 27 Ländern, in denen das Fach als wissenschaftliche Disziplin etabliert ist. Die Länderberichte geben einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des Fachgebiets seit 1945, den gegenwärtigen Stand der Lehre und Forschung, die Aktivitäten der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften, die Zukunftsaussichten und die Beziehung zwischen Politischer Wissenschaft und Politik. Jedes Kapitel schließt mit einer Auswahlbibliographie. (SWP-Hck)