This text examines how cultural and political psychology shape a range of contemporary issues. It broaches such issues as international and cross-cultural conflict, cultural diversity and human rights, revealing how individual and public psychology intersect with politics and culture.
This text examines how cultural and political psychology shape a range of contemporary issues. It broaches such issues as international and cross-cultural conflict, cultural diversity and human rights, revealing how individual and public psychology intersect with politics and culture.
This analysis brings together the many perspectives that have shaped policy on the relationship between church and state. Contributors ranging from Stanley Fish to Richard John Neuhaus explore issues extending from religious morality and religious freedom to fundamentalism.
Demonstrates the capacity of people to bestow and to esteem benevolence, and to strive for virtue even while they are pursuing their own self-interest. This book tells that the root of our motivation to act benevolently toward others is our natural propensity to sympathize with others.
Against a backdrop of 700 years of bourgeois struggle, the author weaves a Marxist theory of law and jurisprudence based upon the Western experience. This book also discusses the struggle for human rights.
Explores how policy ideas are spread - or diffused - in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study in policy diffusion, this book compares the process of their adoption in Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts over a twelve-year period.
`This is one of the most comprehensive books that I have read that addresses the relationship between therapies, the social and the political. Comprehensive in the sense that it covers many areas in short but succinct chapters which focus on particular relationships in the field. It is, in some way, a textbook, rather than a monograph and I would ......
The minimum wage appears to be a standard economic regulatory measure, yet a politics of symbolism more than anything else defines the political contests that periodically erupt over it. Detractors abhor its corruption of market principles, while supporters see it as a measure of society's symbolic commitment to the poor.Tracing the history of the ......
"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. Identifying this conception as a key point of conflict, this book presents a debate among contemporary natural law and liberal political theorists on the definition and validity of the idea of public reason.
