Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with. In Part I, the author justifies the need for the notion of substance in metaphysics in general and in the metaphysics of politics in particular. He spells out a moderately realist theory of substances and of their principles of unity, which supports substantial gradualism. Part II concerns action theory and the nature of practical reason. The author claims that the acknowledgement of reasons by agents is constitutive of action and that normativity depends on the role of the good in the formation of reasons. Finally, in Part III the author addresses the notion of political community. He claims that the principle of unity of a political community is its authority to give members of the community moral reasons for action. This suggests a middle way between liberal individualism and organicism, and the author demonstrates the significance of this view by discussing current political issues such as the role of religion in the public sphere and the political significance of cultural identity. Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in social metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and philosophy of the social sciences"--

Political socialization. --- Socialization, Political --- Political psychology --- Political sociology --- Socialization --- Metaphysics --- Political science --- Philosophy --- Political socialization --- Political science - Philosophy --- Political sociology - Philosophy --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past. Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa provides a critical reflection on citizenship in Africa by bringing together scholars working with very different case studies and with very different understandings of what is meant by citizenship. By bringing historians and social scientists into dialogue within the same volume, it argues that a revised reading of the past can offer powerful new perspectives on the present, in ways that might also indicate new paths for the future. The project collects the works of up-and-coming and established scholars from around the globe. Presenting case studies from such wide-ranging countries as Sudan, Mauritius, South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ethiopia, the essays delve into the many facets of citizenship and agency as they have been expressed in the colonial and postcolonial eras. In so doing, they engage in exciting ways with the watershed book in the field, Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject. Contributors: Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, Solomon M. Gofie, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, John Lonsdale, Eghosa E.Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich, Chris Vaughan, and Henri-Michel Yéré.

Political sociology --- Africa --- Citizenship --- Political rights --- Political socialization --- Socialization, Political --- Political psychology --- Socialization --- Civic rights --- Civil rights --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Law and legislation

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Political yard signs are one of the most conspicuous features of American political campaigns, yet they have received little attention as a form of political communication or participation. Against the backdrop of today's political environment of conflict and division, this text advances a new understanding of how citizens experience campaigns, explaining why many still insist on airing their views in public and what happens when social spaces become political spaces.

Advertising, Political --- Political socialization --- Political culture --- Neighborhoods --- Social aspects --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Culture --- Political science --- Socialization, Political --- Political psychology --- Political sociology --- Socialization --- Advertising in politics --- Political advertising --- Politics, Practical --- Press and politics

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book addresses opinion leadership in democratic politics as a process whereby individuals send and receive information through their informally based networks of political communication. The analyses are based on a series of small group experiments, conducted by the authors, which build on accumulated evidence from more than seventy years of survey data regarding political communication among interdependent actors. The various experimental designs provide an opportunity to assess the nature of the communication process, both in terms of increasing citizen expertise as well as in terms of communicating political biases.

Political socialization. --- Public opinion. --- Communication in politics. --- Political communication --- Political science --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Socialization, Political --- Political psychology --- Political sociology --- Socialization

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

372.83 --- 37.017.4 --- 32.001 --- Civics, Dutch --- -Political socialization --- -Socialization, Political --- Political psychology --- Political sociology --- Socialization --- Dutch civics --- Maatschappijleer. Social studies. Sociale wetenschappen. Maatschappijleer --(niet-universitair onderwijs) --- Staatsburgerlijke opvoeding --- Politieke wetenschap --- Study and teaching --- -Maatschappijleer. Social studies. Sociale wetenschappen. Maatschappijleer --(niet-universitair onderwijs) --- 32.001 Politieke wetenschap --- 37.017.4 Staatsburgerlijke opvoeding --- 372.83 Maatschappijleer. Social studies. Sociale wetenschappen. Maatschappijleer --(niet-universitair onderwijs) --- -32.001 Politieke wetenschap --- Socialization, Political --- Political socialization