The paper presents a brief analysis of the procedural approach towards constructing liberal political conceptions justice and democracy. Treatment J. Rawls’s evolution shows negative consequences abandoning external substantive criteria for theory evaluation, including efficiency, justification, truth. It also offers justification “epistemic turn” in contemporary theory. return classical episte...

This article argues that the difference between poor countries and rich countries has to do with governance rather than resources, emphasizing the importance of public administration in explaining economic success and failure. Political elasticity (PE) theory is introduced for the analysis presented here, including the following terminology: (1) political elasticity, (2) political inelasticity,...