Marxian Socio-Political Economic Theory: Two Schools of Thought: Part-II

The Theory of Islamic Revolution in Shahid Sadr's Political Thought

Martyr Seyyed Muhammad Baqer Sadr is one of the scholars who have offered a relatively comprehensive theory regarding the nature, possibility, necessity and conditions of a revolution with the leadership of Islam and how this type of revolution can be implemented. His theory about revolution is not of post-revolutionary or analytic type but is pre-revolutionary and norm-based or guiding and den...

Recent Economic Perspectives on Political Economy, Part II.

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...

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 Two Schools of American Political Development

Positive Political Theory II

Positive Political Theory II (University of Michigan Press, 2005) regrettably contains a variety of obscurities and errors, both typographical and substantive. Most of these are apparent and the appropriate corrections evident. Unfortunately, a few of the mistakes to surface are egregious (and thus correspondingly embarrassing ...). So, with apologies to Je¤ and to those using this book, the mi...