Pluralism’s renaissance, thanks to William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe and others, has established its position as the distinctive voice of late modern democracy. It thus calls for an explicit theory of tragedy to address the antagonisms and enmities it reflects and fosters. Treating Machiavelli, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Weber and Camus as members of a minor (tragic) tradition of thought, I articulate...

the idea of separation of powers has been recognized as a model which was first developed and favored by thomas hobbes, john locke, montesquieu and rousseau and was progressively adopted by political systems and constitutional law of various countries. few other countries can be found today that their structure – although seemingly – are not organized on the basis of separation of powers. this ...

nowadays, in discourse of cinema, movie poster is one of the inseparable parts of showing movie. these posters are influenced by their own social and political discourses of the time when they were produced. the current paper aims for description and interpretation of social and political changing contents of the iranian cinema blockbuster of the past fifty years. for this purpose 47 movie post...

Sociologists and feminist scholars have, over many decades, characterised attachment as a social construction that functions to support political and gender conservatism. We accept that attachment theory has seen use to these ends and consider recent deployments of attachment theory as justification for a minimal State within conservative political discourse in the UK since 2009. However, we co...

We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political skill are something that speakers can actively mitigate; this makes it an important bias to understand. In Study 1, White and Asia...

The paper presents the results of the research, focused on Slovenian parliamentary deputies' position on e-democracy with the stress on remote evoting. It examines the difference in the position on e-democracy and e-voting of deputies aligned with the political right and left respectively. Furthermore, it considers deputies' attitude to the initiatives mediated via e-mail and assesses the risks...

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...

The paper presents the results of the research, focused on Slovenian parliamentary deputies' position on e-democracy with the stress on remote evoting. It examines the difference in the position on e-democracy and e-voting of deputies aligned with the political right and left respectively. Furthermore, it considers deputies' attitude to the initiatives mediated via e-mail and assesses the risks...

happiness holds a central position in farabi and aquinas theory of  ethics and politics. both of these philosophers are considered aristotle-oriented and peripatetic. while both regard god’s countenance as real happiness, their methods to reach this goal are separated in a stage and a place. recognizing the insufficiency of intellect,aquinas affirms the necessity of faith and other theological ...