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Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

Marxism and the Paradox of Contemporary Political Thought

and the Paradox of Contemporary Political Thought Stanley Rothman W ITH all the volumes that have been written about Marx and Marxism in recent years, there has been little or no attempt, in the English-speaking world at least, to relate his thinking to the general development of modem European philosophic speculation.' Fundamentally this is because Marx has received short shrift as a philosoph...

The Concept of “Political Legitimacy” in Shia Political Thought (With Focus on Imam Khomeini’s Political Thought)

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...

The Political Economy of Federalism

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science’s interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (1) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to achieve social goals; (2) as problems in positive political theory, because the authority distribution creates competitive interests; (3) as an institutional d...