Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent histo...(展开全部)

扬-维尔纳·米勒（Jan-Werner Müller） 美国普林斯顿大学政治系教授，英国牛津大学全灵学院院士，纽约大学雷马克研究所高级访问院士，并在哈佛大学欧洲研究中心以院士身份进行博士后研究，是欧洲年轻一代思想家中影响较大也较为活跃的翘楚人物。著有《另一个国度：德国知识分子、两德统一及民族认同》、《危险的心灵：战后欧洲思潮中的卡尔·施米特》，编有《战后欧洲的记忆和权力：过去的现在性研究》和《1945年以来的德国意识形态：联邦德国文化和政治思想研究》等。 译者简介： 邓晓菁 北京外国语大学文学学士，北京大学法学硕士，德国法兰克福大学法学硕士。译有《当知识分子遇到政治》、《危险的心灵：战后欧洲思潮中的卡尔·施米特》和《偶然》。现供职于外研社。

Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Mller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a no...(展开全部)

Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role ...(展开全部)