Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These c...(展开全部)

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These c...(展开全部)

Augustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for li...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 埃里克·格雷戈里（Eric Gregory）在哈佛大学取得硕士学位后，以“罗德学者”的身份在牛津大学学习神学，后又在耶鲁大学取得宗教研究博士学位；2001年起，他获得普林斯顿大学的教职，凭借本书，于2009年晋升为教授。 他的研究领域包括宗教和哲学伦理、神学、政治理论、法律和宗教，以及宗教在公共生活中的作用。他笔耕不辍，在《宗教伦理期刊》（Journal of Religious Ethics）、《基督教伦理研究》（Studies in Christian Ethics）、《奥古斯丁研究》（ Augustinian Studies）等期刊上发表了多篇论文。目前，他正在写作一本新书，暂定名为《陌生人的聚会：全球正义与政治神学》（The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Politi...(展开全部)

Since the nineteenth century, there has been a slow transformation in the nature of the norms that regulate political competition and the uses of state power. Monarchies whose legitimating principles appealed to divine sanction have steadily given way to republican regimes normatively grounded in appeals to 'the people.' Ideals of liberty, equality and solidarity have gained gr...(展开全部)

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.</p> Some accounts of democracy's purposes fo...(展开全部)

Liberal democracy is in recession, and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained, even spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands, such as England and America. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy. Other voices argue that democracy is better without...(展开全部)

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has been aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and the crisis of a left-wing pro...(展开全部)

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has been aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and the crisis of a left-wing pro...(展开全部)