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Expertise in Liberal Political Theory: Problems and Discrepancies
2023The chapter shows just how casually, if at all, liberal theorists approach the issue of expertise and the role of experts in political decision-making. Analysing the works of Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, Thomas Christiano and Hélène Landemore, among others, it identifies three approaches to the lay-expert relationship dominant in liberal thought and ...
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Life as a Political Problem: The Post-Human Turn in Political Theory
Political Studies Review, 2017The post-human turn in political theory has challenged the anthropocentric assumption that individuated human agency is the exclusive domain of political action, subjectivity, and community. Recently, there has emerged an important intersection between, on one hand, the “post-human turn” in political theory and, on the other hand, the critical studies
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On Styles of Dealing with Problems in Political Theory
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008What are the different styles by which political theorists deal with intellectual problems? This question is important because if we do not answer it, we shall not know why methodological disagreements are so much more intense and heated than substantive disagreements.
T. J. Donahue, Paulina Ochoa Espejo
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Game Theory and Politics: Some Problems of Application
Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 1954The similarity of certain games and certain social situations is, of course, not accidental. A considerable body of psychological research deals with the transfer of patterns of social behaviour into the play activity of children and back from the play of children into social life.
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Political Discourse Analysis through Solving Problems of Graph Theory [PDF]
BRAND. Broad Research in Accounting, Negotiation, and Distribution, 2010 In this article, we show how, using graph theory, we can make a content analysis of political discourse. Assumptions of this analysis are: • we have a corpus of speech of each party or candidate; • we consider that speech conveys economic, political, socio-cultural values, these taking the form of words or word families; • we consider that there ...
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The problem of interests in contemporary liberal political theory
Politics, 1989Abstract ‘Interest’ is a central concept in contemporary liberal political theory. Much of this discussion is marked by related confusions between ‘interest’ and ‘actions‐in‐interests’ and between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ interests. These confusions are damaging, since liberal theorists are ostensibly firmly opposed to treating objective interests ...
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Political Theory and the Child: Problems of the Individualist Tradition
Political Studies, 1979Consideration of the status and treatment of the child is a legitimate concern of political theory, and may lead to reappraisal of some commonly deployed arguments. Several respects are indicated in which decisions taken by adults and affecting children may properly be considered political.
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Problems without Solutions: Teaching theory and the politics of hope
Continuum, 2002(2002). Problems without Solutions: Teaching theory and the politics of hope. Continuum: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 343-356.
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Hume and the Problem of Theory and Practice in Philosophy and Political Theory
2012What can theory do and what can it not do? What is, and what should be, the relationship between theory and practice? This book examines the relationship between theory and practice in the philosophy and political theory of the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776).
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Political Theory, the Archive, and the Problem of Authority
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