Political theory from its very onset has determined that democracy is inconceivable without a crisis. This applies to the ancient writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybios to the modern era with writings of Tocqueville, Marx and Max Weber or since the 1970s the leftists Jürgen Habermas (1973) and Claus Offe (1972), the conservative Crozier, Huntington, Watanuki (1975), the leftist NeoSchmittian Ch...

Introductory textbooks in the History of Economic Thought use at colleges and universities devote little space to Scholasticism its influence. Even those that do not start straight with Physiocrats, Thomas Aquinas appears stuck between Ancient Greek Philosophers Mun. “medieval” economic thought characterized as primitive focused on “obsolete” issues like usury just price. Sometimes it is even c...

Although at first glance French and U.S. inheritance laws appear to be diametrically opposed, this paper provides a deeper analysis. In doing so, it explains that nuances within both systems have made the laws more similar than they initially appear. U.S. inheritance laws, explicitly characterized by freedom of testation, include numerous substantive limits on how a testator may dispose of her ...

Is there anything new to be said about the New Deal? As Ira Katznelson observes at the beginning of Fear Itself, 'we possess hundreds of thematic histories, countless studies of public affairs and abundant biographies of key persons during this time of great historical density'; so 'why present another portrait?', he asks. Part of the answer lies in a resurgence of interest in the 1930s in the ...

The politics of hope of this article is rooted in the local leadership of low income, repressed communities. One central element of the politics of hope is redemptive organizations. These organizations are a variant of voluntary associations that are distinguished by their explicitly political purpose of social transformation and concomitant requirement of personal sacrifice and transformation....

Reimagining the Social Bond:Review of Kevin Duong's The Virtues Violence Marieke Mueller (bio) and Robert P. Jackson Duong. Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France. Oxford University Press, 2020. 256 pp. £36.45 (hc). ISBN: 9780190058418. contract theory has tended to associate violence with chaos, disorder, irrationality. In Violence, Duong directs us towards an alternative ...

astract: happiness is a great gift that should be searched , found , seized and transmit to others . with regard the happiness influence on social and individual life and the widespread role of religion in human lives , the present study has been done with the aim investigate the relationship between religiosity and amount of happiness among young people in tehran . in this study were explored ...

The concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. The growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. Cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individualizat...

This study aims to have a sociological explanation of the different forms of participation among Khalkhal citizens and the factors affecting it. In this study, the important issue is attention to dimensions of participation. The theoretical framework and model were presented by using the theory of Talcott Parsons, Lipset, Habermas, De Tocqueville, Lerner, and Rostow. This research was a survey ...