Author: Joseph Canning Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108831796 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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Explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, addressing arguments that people at the time found convincing.
Author: Paul V. Martorana Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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When and how will individuals accept or attempt to change systems that subordinate them? What determines whether acts against power hierarchies are considered appropriate? Recent research suggests that individuals will justify and maintain systems that subordinate them (Jost & Banaji, 1994), yet I suggest that certain boundary conditions predict when and how individuals will no longer accept their place in such systems. I propose a model that examines how multiple factors---a sense of power (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003), emotions associated with power (Kemper, 1984; Tiedens, 2001a), and perceptions of the system's legitimacy (Tajfel & Turner, 1986)---predict when those in low power will act against authority or when they will act to justify and maintain such systems. Results from three experiments indicate that all three factors influence individuals' attempts to change systems of authority. Specifically, an increased sense of power led to increased non-normative actions against a system; emotions associated with high power led to increased overt and non-normative actions while low power emotions led to increased covert actions; and perceptions of the illegitimacy of the system led to normative attempts to change the system. Implications for social movement, social psychological and organizational theories are discussed, as are implications for both managers and those who are attempting to make changes within organizations.
Author: Anthony de Crespigny Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351497375 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 448
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Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book. The approach outlined here remains significant today not only for its contribution to normative analysis, but also because it shows how political scientists can view their subject matter with a more profound understanding of the concepts they deal with in their work.De Crespigny and Wertheimer selected fourteen essays on seven fundamental political concepts for this volume: power, authority, liberty, equality, justice, rights, and political obligation. These essays explore the basic ideas and values of politics, and are the works of scholars with considerable reputations as theorists among their contemporaries. They continue to represent some of the best Anglo-American thinking of the century.The editors discuss the nature and possibilities of political theory and, in particular, they examine the adequacy of the criticisms that have commonly been directed at the main works of "traditional" political thought. They provide an incisive introduction to each chapter. These explanatory materials result in a volume that can be used as the primary text in courses in political theory and political philosophy, in a course in the history of political thought, or as a guide to basic issues underlying political thought irrespective of its historical context.
Author: Stephen Darwall Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199662584 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 228
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Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the view that morality is second-personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He illustrates the power of the second-personal framework to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy.
Author: Thomas Christiano Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191613916 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when do we have reason to say that we may justly ignore democratic decisions? These questions must be answered if we are to have answers to some of the most important questions facing our global community, which include whether there is a human right to democracy and whether we must attempt to spread democracy throughout the globe. This book provides a philosophical account of the moral foundations of democracy and of liberalism. It shows how democracy and basic liberal rights are grounded in the principle of public equality, which tells us that in the establishment of law and policy we must treat persons as equals in ways they can see are treating them as equals. The principle of public equality is shown to be the fundamental principle of social justice. This account enables us to understand the nature and roles of adversarial politics and public deliberation in political life. It gives an account of the grounds of the authority of democracy. It also shows when the authority of democracy runs out. The author shows how the violations of democratic and liberal rights are beyond the legitimate authority of democracy, how the creation of persistent minorities in a democratic society, and the failure to ensure a basic minimum for all persons weaken the legitimate authority of democracy.
Author: Max Weber Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520035003 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1660
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Max Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920's, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination. Economy and Society was the first strictly empirical comparison of social structures and normative orders in world-historical depth, containing the famous chapters on social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community with its dimensions of class, status and power. Economy and Status is Weber's only major treatise for an educated general public. It was meant to be a broad introduction, but in its own way it is the most demanding textbook yet written by a sociologist. The precision of its definitions, the complexity of its typologies and the wealth of its historical content make the work a continuos challenge at several levels of comprehension: for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for his sense of society, for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, and for the scholar who must match wits with Weber. When the long-awaited first complete English edition of Economy and Society was published in 1968, Arthur Stinchcombe wrote in the American Journal of Sociology: "My answer to the question of whether people should still start their sociological intellectual biographies with Economy and Society is yes." Reinhard Bendix noted in the American Sociological Review that the "publication of a compete English edition of Weber's most systematic work [represents] the culmination of a cultural transmission to the American setting...It will be a study-guide and compendium for years to come for all those interested in historical sociology and comparative study." In a lengthy introduction, Guenther Roth traces the intellectual prehistory of Economy and Society, the gradual emergence of its dominant themes and the nature of its internal logic. Mr. Roth is a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Mr. Wittich heads an economic research group at the United Nations.
Author: David Estlund Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195376692 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 457
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This volume includes 22 new pieces by leading political philosophers, on traditional issues (such as authority and equality) and emerging issues (such as race, and money in politics). The pieces are clear and accessible will interest both students and scholars working in philosophy, political science, law, economics, and more.
Author: Joseph Canning
Author: Richard E. Flathman
Author: Paul V. Martorana
Author: Anthony de Crespigny
Author: Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Author: Stephen Darwall
Author: John Tasioulas
Author: Thomas Christiano
Author: Max Weber
Author: David Estlund