Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

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41. Political Theory of Global Justice

    A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State

    By Luis Cabrera

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong...

    Published February 9th 2006 by Routledge
42. Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism

    Edited by Ramón Máiz, Ferrán Requejo

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and comparative accounts of key issues such as:* politics and policies of accommodation* multiculturalism*...

    Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge
43. Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory Between Critical Theory and Post-Marxism

    By Mark Devenney

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    In addressing the political and theoretical debates between critical and post-Marxist theorists, this book discusses the politics of communication and rationality, subjectivity, sovereignty, ethics and deliberative democracy, considering questions such as:* Does the theory of communicative action...

    Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge
44. Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights

    Edited by Bruce Haddock, Peter Sutch

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the wide-ranging debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy. By focusing on the challenge to mainstream liberal theory posed by the surge of interest in the rights of minority groups and subcultures within states,...

    Published May 21st 2003 by Routledge
45. Civil Society and Democratic Theory

    Alternative Voices

    By Gideon Baker

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice...

    Published April 17th 2002 by Routledge
46. Ecological Relations

    Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth

    By Susan Board

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    International relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international...

    Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
47. Democracy and National Pluralism

    Edited by Ferran Requejo

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering...

    Published August 15th 2001 by Routledge
48. Post-Ecologist Politics

    Social Theory and the Abdication of the Ecologist Paradigm

    By Ingolfur Blühdorn

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any satisfactory way. This important text questions why radical ecological criticism has had so little impact on...

    Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge
49. Rethinking State Theory

    By Mark J Smith, Mark J. Smith

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    In the last two decades, objects of analysis such as 'the state' have increasingly been seen as uncertain and contested theoretical concepts. Mark J. Smith presents a counter argument that highlights how existing theoretical approaches can provide useful tools for understanding contemporary...

    Published April 19th 2000 by Routledge
50. Gramsci and Contemporary Politics

    Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect

    By Anne Showstack Sassoon

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon's writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to Clinton and Blair; the collapse of communism to the regeneration of social democracy. Applying original...

    Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge