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	Political philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three central concerns of political philosophy have been the political economy by which property rights are defined and access to capital is regulated, the demands of justice in distribution and punishment, and the rules of truth and evidence that determine judgments in the law.
		Roman political philosophy was influenced by the Stoics, and the Roman statesman Cicero wrote on political philosophy.
		Political and economic relations were drastically changed by these views as the guild was subordinated to free trade, and Roman Catholic dominance of theology was increasingly challenged by Protestant churches subordinate to each nation-state and which preached in the "vulgar" or native language of each region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_theory (2752 words)

	DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
		Aristotle characterized politics as "the queen of the sciences," and in his works he classified governments according to their various structures and made predictions about how each of these differently structured governments was likely to behave.
		Sometimes theory and practice are joined, as they were in 1787 when the authors of the Constitution operated as both political theorists (discussing the nature of the state and the individual's relationship to it) and practical politicians (deliberating on the scope and structure of government).
		Political Science is a discipline that combines a strong past rooted in philosophy and a contemporary, scientific approach.
	www.udayton.edu /~polsci/whystudy.htm (540 words)

	political theory
		Political Theory, often also referred to as 'political philosophy' or 'political thought,' approaches the study of politics with theoretical and philosophical concerns foremost.
		According to political theorists in order to be able to robustly describe a given political phenomena or problem and prescribe viable and morally legitimate alternatives or solutions, one must cultivate a comprehensive, holistic grasp of the human condition.
		The history of Western Political Philosophy, stretching from Homer to Habermas, consists largely of the successive efforts of political theorists to formulate and persuade others of the validity and utility of their widely divergent answers to such questions.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/politics/theory/main.htm (259 words)

	Sample Chapter for Botwinick, A. and Connolly, W.E., eds.: Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of ...
		Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political
		Politics and Vision did not simply tell us how important it is to address the "tradition" of Western political thought, it engaged comparatively a series of exemplary political thinkers in pre-Christian thought, Christendom, and the modern world in a way that revivified the energy, confidence, and vision of an entire generation of political theorists.
		Political education, for Wolin himself, is intimately bound to the acquisition, dissemination, and improvement of tacit knowledge.
	press.princeton.edu /chapters/s7209.html (6995 words)

	Wabash College: Political Science Crawfordsville, Indiana
		Comparative Politics is a sprawling field of inquiry in which scholars investigate issues ranging from the origins of revolution to the family planning policies of various governments, from democratization to land seizures by peasant communities in different countries.
		The survey of political theory will use selected political theorists to examine a series of major questions which are central to political theory, e.g., power, authority, justice, and liberty.
		A survey of the politics of the major nations of the region plus attention to several of the leading issues, including the Israeli-Arab conflict, oil and the Persian Gulf, and the broader question of economic and social development.
	www.wabash.edu /academics/political_science/courses (1969 words)

	Political Realism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Political realism assumes that interests are to be maintained through the exercise of power, and that the world is characterised by competing power bases.
		Examining the soundness of descriptive political realism depends on the possibility of knowing political motives, which in turn means knowing the motives of the various officers of the state and diplomats.
		Political realists are often characterised as a-moralists, that any means should be used to uphold the national interest, but a poignant criticism is that the definition of morality is being twisted to assume that acting in one's own or one's nation's interests is immoral or amoral at best.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/polreal.htm (1436 words)

	Political Representation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Political representation occurs when political actors speak, advocate, symbolize, and act on the behalf of others in the political arena.
		For instance, democratic theorists often limit the types of representatives being discussed to formal representatives — that is, to representatives who hold elected offices.
		Political representation is understood as a way of 1) establishing the legitimacy of democratic institutions and 2) creating institutional incentives for governments to be responsive to citizens.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/political-representation (5771 words)

	John Carroll University -- Department of Political Science
		Institutions, personalities, and political processes centered in the Presidency; implications of the shifting balance of powers between the Presidency and the other federal branches; analysis of media and public expectations in light of effective leadership and public accountability.
		Analysis of interest-group behavior in electoral politics and in the policy process; theory and structure of groups, the rise of political action committees (PACs), and single-issue voters, the functions and activities of the political parties.
		Mexico's political transformation of the last decades of the 20th Century, economic development policy, issues of migrant labor, and economic and political relations with the U.S. 3 cr.
	www.jcu.edu /politicalscience/ugprogram_coursedescrip.htm (2009 words)

	Political Theory
		To study political theory is to develop the analytic and interpretive skills, the moral and philosophic judgment, and the social and historical knowledge needed to critically assess a tradition of political thought that dates back over two millennia.
		The faculty expose students to the major figures and texts in the 2500 year old tradition of political thought, the moral and epistemological foundations and methods of political theory, the ideological foundations of politics, current controversies in political thought, and enduring topics of concern such as the nature of equality, liberty, justice and power.
		Political theorists in the department have particular interests in continental political philosophy, democratic theory, environmental ethics, liberalism, and contemporary political thought.
	www.polisci.ufl.edu /oldsite/theory.htm (1717 words)

	American Politics Comp Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Discuss the positions of two political theorists with dissimilar ideas as to the appropriate role of government, and relate this discussion both to constitutional forms of government and to contemporary controversies in specific policy areas.
		Discuss the various non-governmental forms of political organization with public policy aims that have arisen in various political systems and assess the legitimacy of their activities and methods.
		Political systems at any given time often retain the vestiges of previous regimes or, especially in the case of the United States, of previous periods.
	www.millsaps.edu /polsci/amercomp.htm (1285 words)

	Political Theory Comp Questions
		Political theorists have developed something of a consensus on the great figures in Western European and American Political Theory.
		Select six major western political theorists and describe their views of these fundamental concepts, the roles that the concepts play in their theories, and the ways in which the theorists justified those views.
		Select three political theorists from modern period and Plato and Aristotle to discuss the evolution of the concept of the 'nature of man.' Make your selections on the basis of the significance of their contributions to the concept of the nature of humankind.
	www.calstatela.edu /dept/pol_sci/MA3.htm (2469 words)

	Political Theory Courses
		A survey of the political thought of the Renaissance and Reformation stressing the transition from medieval to modern political theory.
		An analysis of the development of political theory since the 16th century with emphasis on modern ideologies especially conservatism, liberalism, communism, and fascism.
		A survey of the development of political ideas in America stressing foreign influences on early colonial thought and those influences indigenous to the growth of American democracy.
	www.tulane.edu /~polisci/Courses/polt.html (557 words)

	WHC: Political Science
		The Honors College concentration in political science provides the necessary groundwork for students wishing to do graduate work in political science and related disciplines, and is excellent preparation for law or business school or careers in journalism, public affairs, education, and government.
		American politics: studies the government of the United States, including the relations between the three branches (the Presidency, Congress, the Judiciary), between the federal government and the states, and between government and private interests.
		Political Theory: Political theory is concerned with the nature of politics and the sort of knowledge appropriate to the study of politics.
	www.fau.edu /divdept/honcol/academics_majors_political_science.htm (778 words)

	Political Science
		Political scientists study such struggles, both small and large, in an effort to develop general principles or theories about the way the world of politics works.
		Although political scientists are prone to debate and disagreement, the majority view the discipline as a genuine science.
		Since political scientists construct and assess theories in accordance with the principles of the scientific method, writing in the field conveys the rigor, objectivity, and logical consistency that characterize this method.
	www.unc.edu /depts/wcweb/handouts/polisci.html (2679 words)

	Hebraic Political Studies
		Hebraic texts were frequently consulted and cited between the first and seventeenth centuries by major political theorists and leaders who interacted with Jewish scholarship, contemporary and historical, in developing their own political doctrines.
		The Enlightenment’s denigration of religion in the name of reason may be seen as one of the causes of the decline of the political Hebraism that had reached a peak in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
		The 2006 conference on political Hebraism invites proposals that reevaluate ideas of political import in the Jewish tradition itself or the ways this tradition was borrowed from and appropriated by political thinkers throughout the history of ideas.
	www.hpstudies.org /conferences/2006/callfor.asp (433 words)

	POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: This will be a little meandering, inductive rather than deductive, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When political philosophers turn to the history of political thought, it is typically to extract an argument, not to study a particular person or group of persons or set of influences.
		The sub-discipline of analytic political philosophy is relatively of a piece with the other sub-disciplines that grew out of the Oxford analytic turn in philosophy-- which, in many departments in the English-speaking world, are considered the whole of philosophy excepting only the history of philosophy.
		The study of normative political thought and the history of political thought is not an outgrowth of the same social-scientific turn as the other sub-disciplines in the field.
	polisci.spc.uchicago.edu /~jtlevy/theory-philosophy.html (3815 words)

	John Tomasi - Book Review
		To the liberal perfectionist, political liberalism may not be liberal enough; to the compassionate conservative, it may be too liberal.
		Political liberals hardly ever seriously reflect on the kind of politics that begins when some citizens start claiming that some of the rights and procedures in their society should be revised.
		The theorist's task seems to be to explain to citizens the limits and scope of the given structure of political liberalism.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Political_Science/Tomasi/review.html (1283 words)

	POLITICAL CULTURE nr. 1/2003 ::: www.political-culture.ro
		Unlike Foucault and most other contemporary political theorists with the possible exception of John Rawls (Rawls 1999), Rorty does not conflate the political and philosophical projects of Enlightenment, but tries to keep them separate[4].
		For both theorists, truth is made, not found, either by political struggles in the case of Foucault, or by free and open encounters between alternative vocabularies, in the case of Rorty, fact that makes the latter claim that "literary criticism", not metaphysics, should constitute the main area of intellectual activity.
		For Rorty, liberal solidarity must remain a political and normative priority, and hence the role of the citizen cannot be completely undercut by that of the private intellectual.
	www.political-culture.ro /arhiva/nr3/rorty.foucault.html (4946 words)

	Princeton University Department of Politics - Political theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Political theory is the study of the concepts and principles that people use to describe, explain, and evaluate political events and institutions.
		Princeton ’s political theory faculty has strength in both of these areas of the discipline, and indeed a number of faculty members actively work in both.
		The University Center for Human Values offers a year-long lineup of speakers on themes of interest to political theorists, sponsors graduate prize fellowships that support advanced research by graduate students, and supports a post-doctoral research program that brings several political theorists to Princeton each year for one-year visits.
	www.princeton.edu /politics/research/fields/theory (286 words)

	Politics and Vision
		Not only have most of the eminent philosophers contributed generously to the main stock of our political ideas, but they have given the political theorist many of his methods of analysis and criteria of judgement....By virture of this alliance, political theorists accepted as their own the basic quest of the philosopher for systematic knowledge.
		Certain functions, such as national defense, internal order, the dispensing of justice, and economic regulation, have been declared the primary responsibility of political institutions, largely on the grounds that the interests and ends served by these functions were beneficial to all of the members of the community.
		Several generations of political theorists were provoked and instructed by the original edition.
	www.ou.edu /cas/psc/bookwolin.htm (1115 words)

	Undergraduate Political Science Course Descriptions at The University of Toledo
		An examination of the role of women in the American political system with special attention to their socializing experiences, political power bases and legal status.
		The character and development of African political institutions and processes with a special emphasis on patterns in the post-independence period and prospects for the future.
		An examination of political behavior in selected African states using a case method to examine alternative courses of action available to decision makers.
	www.politicalscience.utoledo.edu /ugrad/u_crs.htm (1769 words)

	3. Normative Political Theory
		Consistent with the theme of this year's conference, however, the section encourages paper and panel proposals which draw insights and evidence from beyond political science to inspire and inform normative problems, or which integrate normative and empirical political science.
		Proposals to investigate the distinctive ways in which political theorists use empirical materials are especially welcome, as are proposals which seek to combine with normative inquiry methodologies not commonly used in political theory.
		The chairs of the three political theory divisions recognize that the distinctions among them are imperfect.
	www.apsanet.org /content_6261.cfm (266 words)

	Political Theorists and Activists.
		His political opponents condemned him and sent him into exile (a Roman citizen could not be put to death by execution).
		His course of study in England, just as was the case for Montesquieu, led Constant throughout his life to espouse, in respect to how a country ought to rule itself, "British liberalism." Coming against Rousseau's view, Constant was of the Lockian view that citizens have rights independent of all social and political authority.
		Primary to Constant's political thinking is the importance of individual rights, limited government and the sacrosanct nature of property.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/BiosPol.htm (2514 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Political theorists of our time
		I have never heard of an actress called Maggie Gyllenhall, but her political opinions, as reported by the BBC, are highly familiar to me:
		Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has prompted outcry after she remarked that the US was "responsible in some way" for the terror attacks of 11 September 2001.
		I trust that in conveying that judgement, she will find that the exercise of free speech that her country protects will nonetheless not be commercially costless to her.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2005/04/thinkers_of_our.html (466 words)

	Political Theory Reading List
		Concepts and Approaches to the Study of Politics: Finally, a candidate for the advanced degree is required to know something of the nature of theorizing and of the major concepts and approaches to the study of politics during the evolution of the academic discipline of Political Science.
		You will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of the difference between normative and empirical political theory, and you should be able to demonstrate a knowledge of the major historical periods of development and the movements within the discipline of political science.
		Students should also be able to identify a variety of important but lesser figures in the history of Western political thought in addition to the major theorists, and they should be able to identify these thinkers and briefly describe their contributions to the evolution of political theory.
	www.calstatela.edu /dept/pol_sci/MA2.htm (1173 words)

	Political Science at the University of Nebraska Lincoln
		Important systems of, and contributions to, political thought in the ancient and medieval periods of Western civilization and their relevance to modern ideas and institutions.
		Major European political theorists from the renaissance to the modern day and their relevance to contemporary ideas and institutions.
		Survey of recent literature in political theory that examines a variety of perspectives.
	www.unl.edu /polisci/theory/theory.html (285 words)

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		Every philosopher who has endevored to articlate his or her thoughts in the realm of political philosophy must at one time or another consider the role of self-interest in society.
		The basis for this consideration begins in moral philosophy, as the needs and obligations of the individual are weighed against the good of the individual and in turn society.
		A political philosophy more closely hewed to the classic philosophers, particularly Plato, and the realist philosophers, such as Strauss, could provide an “antidote” to the CIA's failings, the authors claimed.
	www.lycos.com /info/political-philosophy--miscellaneous.html (487 words)

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