Waves of War is destined to be influential— and controversial. This book examines nationalism, ethnic strife, and war. These topics are not only prominent in the headlines but also of interest to comparative historical sociology, political sociology, and macrosociology more generally. While the topics are familiar, this is a challenging book. Andreas Wimmer presents a novel theory, creates new ...

Arguments about Europe’s democratic deficit are really arguments about the nature and ultimate goals of the integration process. Those who assume that economic integration must lead to political integration tend to apply to European institutions standards of legitimacy derived from the theory and practice of parliamentary democracies. We argue that such standards are largely irrelevant at prese...

political participation is an indication of democracy and political development and legitimacy in different societies. the more participation in a society occurs, the more legitimacy a political system will have. so, the efforts of iranian political system are toward increasing people’s political participation rate. since half of the iranian world consists of women, a survey on the factors affe...

The Internet and Web 2.0 have achieved a rapid growth and became ubiquitous in recent years. The advance in information technologies has also enabled users to generate data, implicitly or explicitly, on an unprecedented scale. Consequently, the need to discover and exploit new and useful knowledge from such data has also increased considerably. In this thesis, in this regard, we investigate use...

Constitutional patriotism is an influential attempt to reconcile the conflicting imperatives of political legitimacy and cultural inclusiveness. However, it underestimates the role of particularist political cultures in grounding universalistic principles of democracy and justice. Civic patriotism, by contrast, emphasizes the motivational prerequisites of democratic governance, stresses the nee...

samanidgovernment was established in the fourthcentury (ah) in the east of islamic caliphate, within a rich socio-cultural context. samanid dynasty needed to prove its rights and legitimacy because of its conflict with the political discourse of their rival governments. this had to be done by taking advantage of thevalues and conceptsembedded in the rational, cultural, and conceptual contextsan...

about ancient iran, especially in recent years, considerable research has been done and it showed auspicious event that for researchers ancient iran is significant. article is due to the focused attention of the political aspects of civilization, the kind of work is original. the main question has been written that, continuity of government and rulers for their statesmanship, and what evidence ...

This paper gives an overview of Pierre Bayle’s theory of toleration and derives a normative principle of toleration from it that is meant to compete with other normative principles of toleration such as the Harm principle. INDEX WORDS: Political philosophy, Social philosophy, toleration, religion, Christianity, justice, legitimacy, stability, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Baruch Spinoza, Harm princ...

The World Social Forum is an open space-movement that contrasts with the formalist self referred political system of representative democracy and inter-State relations. Its banners, decision-making practices and political culture question the social and political orders of global governance that have traditionally been presented as balanced structures aiming at a predictable and universal mater...