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Hobbes's understanding of love, and its significance for his political thought, has received insufficient attention. This essay contends that Hobbes has a consistent and comprehensive teaching on love that directly repudiates what he regards as the Platonic teaching on eros. In attacking the Platonic idea of eros, Hobbes undermines a pillar of classical political philosophy and articulates a significant aspect of his new understanding of the passions in terms of power, which is itself a critical part of his new political science most famously presented in Leviathan.

"In the coming decades, rising sea levels, heavier storms, and drought and desertification will force hundreds of millions of people from their homes -- and even their countries. Where will they go? What rights will they have? Who will take care of them? Over 200 million Asians are at risk. Picture shrinking coastlines in Pakistan, India, and China and border skirmishes over access to shared rivers and farmable land. Imagine ocean waves forcing tens of thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean islanders and more than 100,000 Caribbean islanders to flee. Picture the abandonment of Miami Beach and costal communities up and down the Americas. All this as hundreds of millions become desperate for water as droughts ravage Africa and the Middle East. Rising Tides sounds an alarm over the impending climate refugee crisis and offers a continent-by-continent look at the dangers. John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that nations must take on the problem together -- it will take solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a single country or agency."

"Does anyone have a monopoly on God? Can religion be bought or sold? Why do we pay priests? How do we limit religious conflicts? And should states get involved in matters of faith? "Faithonomics" shows that religion should be analyzed as a market similar to those for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. It is about religion today, but Brekke shows us that there have always been religious markets, all over the world, regulated to a greater or lesser degree. He argues that state "control" over religious markets is often the cause of unforeseen and negative consequences. Many of today's problems like religious terrorism or rent-seeking by religious political parties, are easier to understand if we think like economists. Religious markets work best when they are relatively free, and religious organizations should be left to sell their products without unnecessary restrictions. We have no good reason to grant any one of them special privileges, political or financial"--Book jacket front flap.

Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In Making Public Pasts Alan Gordon argues that the contest was fundamentally ideological, a competition between major social groups to shape perceptions of history and frame the historical consciousness of individuals.

'The World Bank and Governance' delves into the bowels of the World Bank, exploring its organisational structure, professional culture and bureaucratic procedures, illustrating how these shape its engagement with an increasingly complex, diverse and challenging operational environment

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré | Introduction -- The Context of the Withdrawals from East Central Europe -- Tim Geiger | Disarmament and the End of the Cold War -- Hans-Henning Schröder, Christoph Meißner | 'New Thinking' and its Effects on Soviet Foreign and Security Policy -- Markus Mirschel, Michael Galbas | War Returnees as Transformation Accelerators -- Christoph Meißner | The Search for a New Security Structure in Eastern Europe Through the Example of the Dissolution of the Soviet Army -- The Withdrawal of Soviet/Russian Forces from Germany -- Matthias Uhl | The Armed Forces in Germany in the Changed Soviet Defence Strategy Under Gorbachev -- Alexei Sindeyev | The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Germany -- Christoph Meißner | The Withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces from Germany -- Christoph Lorke | Shaping and Negotiating the Withdrawal -- Sascha Gunold | 'Withdrawal Under Observation' -- Markus Hennen | Conversion in Germany Through the Example of the Federal State of Brandenburg -- The Withdrawal of Soviet/Russian Forces from East Central Europe -- Dávid Kiss | The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Hungary and Hungarian Security Relations -- Barnabás Vajda | The Soviet Army Stationing and its Legacy in Czechoslovakia and at Fortress Komárno -- Agnieszka Kastory | International Aspects of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Poland and Germany -- The Withdrawal of Russian Forces from States of the Former Soviet Union -- Sophie Momzikoff | International Aspects of the Russian Troops' Withdrawal from the Baltics -- Dovilė Jakniūnaitė, Valentinas Beržiūnas | Russia and the Baltic States after Regaining Independence -- David Darchiashvili, Michael Machavariani | The Empire Fights Back.

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading scholars trace the emergence of intergovernmental organisations such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation, and the corresponding expansion in transnational sociability and economic entanglement throughout the long twentieth century. They reveal how international thought helped to drive major transformations in the governance of global issues from refugees to slavery and sex-trafficking, from the environment to women's rights and human rights, and from state borders and national minorities to health, education, trade and commerce. In challenging dominant perceptions of how contemporaries thought of nations, states and empires, Internationalisms radically alters our understanding of the major events and ideas that shaped twentieth-century politics, culture, economics and society

This book, written by three of the world's leading experts on Spanish politics, is the first comprehensive study of the origins and basic character of Spain's democratic political system. It analyzes the regime's core political institutions, its political parties and party systems, patterns of electoral behavior, the evolution of Spain's political culture, and the impact of these social and institutional changes on public policy processes and outputs.The authors survey those aspects of Spanish society and politics that had contributed to the country's inability to sustain a stable and democratic regime prior to the 1970s. They argue that the successful transition to and consolidation of democracy was made possible by socioeconomic modernization, cultural change, and by decisions made by political elites in the establishment of core democratic institutions and the conduct of electoral competition. This book is based on over 500 hours of interviews with Spanish political elites, extensive analyses of survey data, and other original research

В рамках розгляду політико-правової думки США періоду боротьби за незалежність проаналізовано ідеї представників двох найвпливовіших політичних таборів – республіканців (Франкліна, Пейна, Джефферсона) та федералістів (Гамільтона, Маршалла, Медісона), ідеї яких справили значний вплив на американську та світову конституційну практику. Відзначено роль та значення відповідних ідей для сучасної України. ; The object of the article is an ideological representation of the socio-political system of the United States in the XVIII century pf the representatives of two most influential movements of those times, Republicans and Federalists, which were laid down in the Constitution of the United States in 1787. The objective of the article is to highlight the state of political and legal thinking in the United States during the struggle for independence and its impact on the constitutional process; the identification of those aspects that are universal; and the definition of ideological foundations that can positively influence the state-building processes in Ukraine. The relevance of the study is to clarify theoretical heritage of the past, which was laid in the basis of one of the leader-states of the state and legal development of the USA, since this experience can be useful in Ukraine. During the study, the author came to the conclusion that the strong components of the US Constitution of 1787 were: the skillful use of American political thought of the late XVIII century to socio-economic realities; the possibility of reaching a political compromise in terms of the acute ideological struggle of the Republicans and Federalists; successful structure of the Constitution; "strict order" for making amendments and alterations to the Constitution; the implementation of the institutions of constitutional interpretation and control.

This study extends prior Balanced Scorecard (BSC) research by examining the role of rational (cognitive) and non-rational (political power) aspect on both BSC-based performance measurement and resource allocation decision making in public sector organization. We conduct an experiment using 70 undergraduate accounting students at a large public university in Bali Province asked to assume the role of a governmental auditor whose task was to evaluate the performance of two departments in a fictitious local government in Indonesia. Participants were then requested to make recommendation about how additional bonus should be allocated to the departments. As the result, we find that cognitive aspect do have impact on performance evaluation, but not in bonus allocation, decision making. Meanwhile, political power appears to have significant effect on the resource allocation decisions based on BSC mechanism. However, it can't be hold in performance evaluation judgement. Hence, the findings allow concluding that the process of performances measurement in public sector is more rational than resources allocation ones.

ABSTRACT Neoliberalism has succeeded in reaching unprecedented levels of power and domination. Despite this, the literature shows that many aspects of the history of neoliberalism remain unclear. In this regard, this article discusses two notable aspects. The first is that neoliberalism lacks a clear definition and is often confused with many other concepts. The second aspect relates to the origins of neoliberalism, which are often reduced to a particular version that does not necessarily reflect the deep roots of neoliberal thought. This article argues that subjecting the history of neoliberal thought to scrutiny contributes to removing many of the ambiguities associated with these two aspects. On the one hand, it allows identifying the different interpretations of neoliberalism, and on the other hand, it shows the fact that neoliberalism emerged in the midst of the crisis of classical liberalism and as a reaction to the expansion of collectivism.

Brazil's quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil theorizes the connections across those problems, explaining how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties interact to undermine descriptive representation in Brazil. This book draws on an original multilevel database of 27,653 legislative candidacies spanning six election cycles, over 100 interviews, and field observations from throughout Brazil. Wylie demonstrates that more inclusive participation in candidate-centered elections amidst raced-gendered structural inequities relies on institutionalized parties with the capacity to support women, and the will, heralded by party leadership, to do so. The book illustrates how women leaders in Brazil's more institutionalized parties enable white and Afro-descendant female aspirants to navigate the masculinized terrain of formal politics. It enhances our understanding of how parties mediate electoral rules, as well as institutional and party change in the context of weak but robustly gendered institutions.

"Two aspects link together the notions of corruption and integrity from an epistemological perspective: the complexity of defining the two notions, and their richness in forms. This volume brings together the perspectives of six disciplines - business, political science, law, philosophy, anthropology and behavioural science - to the debate on integrity and corruption. The main goal is to promote a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue on complex themes such as integrity and corruption in business and politics. The book investigates possible ways in which corruption and integrity apply to everyday practices, ideas and ideologies, and avoids the stigmatizations and oversimplifications that often plague these fields of research"--