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  • Games of Contingency

    Ideal Types, Debates and Conceptual Histories of Politics

    by Kari Palonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers reflections and applications of politics as an activity. It focuses on a selection of Kari Palonen's work over the last 15 years. It is linked to the complex world of parliaments from rhetorical and procedural perspectives, originally inspired by Max Weber and Quentin Skinner as well as by older books on British parliamentary rhetoric and procedural commentaries. The volume ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure

    The Formation of the Westminster Procedure as a Parliamentary Ideal Type

    by Kari Palonen ...
    Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on the agenda items. The British House of Commons provides the closest historical approximation for the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Politics and Conceptual Histories

    Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives

    by Kari Palonen ...
    Series series Politics-Debates-Concepts
    The international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present Kari Palonen has shaped and supported this change with his emphasis on its role for the study of politics ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Parliamentary Thinking

    Procedure, Rhetoric and Time

    by Kari Palonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the main historical reference and the author’s studies on parliamentary procedure and rhetoric provide ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe

    Concepts and Histories

    'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion presents an alternative view to the widespread assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. Rather, it questions the universal validity of such an assumption by ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action

    Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can be regarded as frozen debates. The first chapter discusses what is to be understood as politics and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe

    Series Book 10 - European Conceptual History
    The figure of the ‘politician’ occupies a central yet fraught position in the media landscape of contemporary Europe. A frequent source of criticism in everyday news bulletins, the term itself is loaded with an emotional significance that corresponds with prevailing perceptions of current political administrations. In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Rhetoric and Bricolage in European Politics and Beyond

    The Political Mind in Action

    Edited by Niilo Kauppi, Kari Palonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to develop Rhetoric as a field of knowledge in an important new direction, European Union politics. The authors analyse what could be called a “European style of politics”: textual strategies and rhetorical styles evolving within and around the EU’s supranational and national institutions. By fusing rhetorical and sociological approaches, political thought and culture, the book ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Parliament and Parliamentarism

    A Comparative History of a European Concept

    Series Book 2 - European Conceptual History
    Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    New Insights from Marxʼs Writings

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The nature of the contemporary global political economy and the significance of the current crisis are a matter of wide-ranging intellectual and political debate, which has contributed to a revival of interest in Marx’s critique of political economy. This book interrogates such a critique within the broader framework of the history of political economy, and offers a new appreciation of its ... Read more

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  • Legal Personality in International Law

    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Several international legal issues are related to the concept of legal personality, including the determination of international rights and duties of non-state actors and the legal capacities of transnational institutions. When addressing these issues, different understandings of legal personality are employed. These concepts consider different entities to be international persons, state different ... Read more

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    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    This systematic analysis of State complicity in international law focuses on the rules of State responsibility. Combining a theoretical perspective on complicity based on the concept of the international rule of law with a thorough analysis of international practice, Helmut Philipp Aust establishes what forms of support for wrongful conduct entail responsibility of complicit States and sheds light ... Read more

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