Pluralism and the Personality of the State

1997-06-05 History

Author : David Runciman
Release : 1997-06-05
Genre : History
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Download or read book Pluralism and the Personality of the State written by David Runciman. This book was released on 1997-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be sovereign. They also believed that groups, like individuals, might have personalities of their own. The book examines the philosophical background to political pluralist ideas with particular reference to the work of Thomas Hobbes and the German Otto von Gierke. It also traces the development of pluralist thought before, during and after the First World War. Part Three returns to Hobbes in order to see what conclusions can be drawn about the nature of his Leviathan and the nature of the state as it exists today.

Pluralism and the Personality of the State

1997-06-05 Political Science

Author : David Runciman
Release : 1997-06-05
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Pluralism and the Personality of the State written by David Runciman. This book was released on 1997-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells the history of English political thought from 1900 to 1933, concentrating on the work of the political pluralists and their attack on the idea of state sovereignty. It explores the background to their work in the ideas of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the German jurist Otto von Gierke. It also looks at what wider relevance their ideas might have today, particularly with regard to the question of the relation between the state and voluntary associations.

The Pluralist State

2016-07-27 Political Science

Author : David Nicholls
Release : 2016-07-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Pluralist State written by David Nicholls. This book was released on 2016-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical account of the political pluralism of Figgis, Laski and other English writers of the early twentieth century, indicating its whig roots in the previous century. Pluralists believed in liberty, preserved by power decentralised, and in group personality. Theories of sovereignty were rejected and a distinctive understanding of the state proposed. Pluralism is particularly relevant to a world where the omnicompetent state has increasingly been called into question and federal structures of authority are the order of the day.

The Pluralist Theory of the State

2005-08-03 Political Science

Author : Paul Q. Hirst
Release : 2005-08-03
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The Pluralist Theory of the State written by Paul Q. Hirst. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English political pluralism is a challenging school of political thought, neglected in recent years but now enjoying a revival of interest. It is particularly relevant today because it offers a critique of centralized sovereign state power. The leading theorists of the pluralist state were G.D.H. Cole, J.N. Figgis and H.J. Laski, and this volume brings together their most important ideas, making accessible a crucial body of work on radical political theory. It includes their major writings, mostly out of print and difficult to obtain, and here gathered together in an anthology for the first time. Current in the first two decades of this century, English political pluralism offered a convincing critique of state sovereignty and proposed a decentralized and federated form of authority - pluralism - in which the affairs of society would be conducted by self-governing and independent associations. Paul Hirst's comprehensive introduction situates English political pluralism historically and gives a critical account of its main theoretical themes and the debate surrounding them. The book will be of interest to those who see radical reform as vital for the future health of democracy, to students of political theory and the history of political thought and also to students of jurisprudence and legal theory interested in the pluralist debate as it affects the concept of legal sovereignty.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism

2020-09-24 Law

Author : Paul Schiff Berman
Release : 2020-09-24
Genre : Law
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism written by Paul Schiff Berman. This book was released on 2020-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abstract Global legal pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the twenty-first century"--

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