Encyclopedia_of_Political_Thought
Patronage is still regarded as ineffective, corrupt, and unresponsive government employment, but its supporters consider it an a ...
These economic laws governed the shape of the eco- nomic order and therefore affirmed Quesnay’s primary assumption, the shape an ...
The Republicof Plato is the first systematic work of political theory in the Western world. It strives to give a definition of J ...
(which has the virtue of honor but also has the vice of poverty). This, then, is overthrown by an oligarchy whose wealth correct ...
Further Readings Dahl, R. A Preface to Democratic Theory.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Huntington, S. The Promise ...
to studying politics, founded in the philosophical mate- rialism of Thomas HOBBES. This perspective attempted to apply the metho ...
state. He saw the government of Rome as a classic MIXED CONSTITUTION, blending MONARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, and DEMOCRACY. This balanc ...
ernment to protect and advance the “democracy of the common man” against the craftiness of elites. This causes its image of igno ...
ics and formal logic). All other claims to knowledge that could not be traced to sense experience and that were not a claim of r ...
cerned primarily with getting and keeping power and with putting power above all other values (including goodness). Thomas HOBBE ...
ophy. Those most directly influenced include W. V. O. Quine, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty. Further Readings Hauser, N., and ...
(which would endanger national security) is pun- ished by law. Civil law courts can treat cases of per- sonal injury by libelous ...
trol and ABORTION, although the term privacyis not listed as a constitutional right. This interpretation of the U.S. Constitutio ...
Prohibition The social movement, primarily in the United States of America, to prohibit alcoholic beverages legally. The motive ...
should be owned privately or by the community, and how the STATE should regulate, limit, or distribute property. An early treatm ...
Protagoras (490–415 B.C.) classical Greek phi- losopher and sophist One of the earliest political thinkers in the Western world, ...
CHISM, the theory that coercive government or the STATEshould be abolished. Proudhon was for the most part self-educated, teachi ...
Pufendorf based his political and legal theories on a conception of natural law. According to Pufendorf, there exists both divin ...
Puritan The political thought and views of CHURCH AND STATEof the Puritans: English Calvinist CHRISTIANS especially prominent in ...
Q Quebec Act of 1774 Legislation by the British Parliament that granted reli- gious toleration to the French CATHOLICpopulation ...
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