Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Le Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes est un texte qui semble bien connu : il a fortement contribué à forger la réputation d'un Rousseau paradoxal, radical, dénonçant la propriété, source de tous les maux de l'homme social, et renvoyant à l'image du « bon sauvage ». Cette œuvre que Rousseau considérait comme plus importante même que le Contrat social, ne se laisse pourtant pas résumer par ces quelques formules rapides. Il n'y a trace ici ni de primitivisme, ni de condamnation unilatérale de la société et de la propriété. Cette nouvelle étude vise à faire ressortir les difficultés du texte, et à rappeler les apories de l'existence politique mises à jour par Rousseau. La question des rapports entre le social, le moral, le politique et l'économique lui doit sa formulation moderne. C'est dans les conditions sociales et économiques, facteur d'interdépendance, qu'il situe l'origine de l'inégalité et du malheur de l'homme. Si ce dernier est naturellement bon, si c'est le croisement des intérêts qui le déprave, il reste alors à penser sur de nouvelles bases la forme d'une société non corruptrice, conforme à sa vraie nature.

Equality. --- Natural law. --- Political science.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Democracy --- Political science --- History --- 19th century --- United States --- Great Britain --- Tocqueville, Alexis de --- Democracy - History - 19th century --- Political science - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Political science - United States - History - 19th century

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Christianity and politics --- Political science --- Reformed Church --- History. --- Philosophy --- Calvin, Jean --- History --- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. --- Christianity and politics - History. --- Political science - History.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues--the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyzes debate again and again in our nation's capital. In this definitive new work, Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky describe and analyze the struggles over taxing and spending from Carter's last year through the Reagan administration. The battle of the budget is largely about how we define the role of the government and its relationship to the people. It is a story of congressional horsetrading, partisan posturing, and technical tricks that affect billions of dollars. It is also a story of politicians operating within constraints set by both public opinion and political interpretation of economic reality. Though budgeting has always been important, its impact on the national agenda has grown dramatically in the last decades. Based on extensive interviews with participants and thorough use of documentary sources, this book both explains how budgeting works so the reader can see what is at stake in seemingly arcane disputes and locates budgeting within larger ideological trends in American society. It also explains the relationship of the budget to media, party and policy activists and explores the ways in which the deficit represents a crisis of self-confidence in the ability of our institutions, preeminently Congress and the presidency. Along the way, it provides a uniquely comprehensive account of the entire budget problem, exploring Gramm-Rudman, tax reform, and the continuing stalemate around this issue. 'The Deficit and the Public Interest' offers a wide-ranging "solution" to the deficit that encompasses several ideas: the authors demonstrate that institutions have performed better than their members and critics believe, and they contend that extreme solutions would li

Budget deficits --- Budget --- Government spending policy --- United States --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Public Finance

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is the first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660-89. For long accepted as a significant figure, through his criticism of Hobbes and his possible influence on Locke, Lawson has never been studied in depth, nor has his biography been previously established. Professor Condren here provides the context and the analysis of Lawson's major work, in the process re-dating it and providing a quite different interpretation from previous readings. A substantial section is devoted to the history of the text and its use in controversies in the period 1660-89, and there is some reassessment of the relationship between Hobbes, Locke and Lawson. The study also uses Lawson's text to reopen questions about English seventeenth-century political theory in general, and to prefigure a theoretical study on metaphor and political conceptualisation. The book thus operates on a number of levels, philosophical and linguistic as well as historical.

Arts and Humanities --- History --- Political science --- Lawson, George, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government