Culture, politics and biology from a biosemiotic perspective by Wheeler, Wendy

“…Joining culture and nature as part of the evolution of semiotic layers in recursive biocybernetic systems, biosemiotics insists there is an ontological and practical link between both that should be part of scientifically informed political theory and policies.…”

Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Galliani, Voltaire cité par les brochures de 1789 <br/> Robert Wokler, The Influence of Diderot on the political theory of Rousseau: two aspects of a relationship <br/> H. …”

Do we need an anti-oligarchic constitution? by Bagg, S

“…Camila Vergara’s Systemic Corruption is an extraordinarily rich, provocative and original work of political theory, which makes several compelling interventions in the normative literature. …”

Plato's Myth of Er and the reconfiguration of nature by Keum, T

“…Why did Plato conclude the Republic, arguably his most celebrated work of political theory, with the Myth of Er, an obscure story of indeterminate politicaltheoretical significance? …”

An informational right to the city? Code, content, control, and the urbanization of information by Shaw, J, Graham, M

“…—the paper seeks to apply post‐political theory in exploring a path to the possibility of more just information geographies.…”

Policing before and after the police - The historical antecedents of contemporary crime control by Zedner, L

“…Examining the eighteenth-century antecedents of present developments reveals the explanatory value of historical perspective and the relevance of Enlightenment political theory for the present governance of policing. …”

AV Dicey on English imperialism by Middleton, A

“…It also opens up wider questions about fin-de-siècle imperial ideas, and political theory. Dicey’s analysis of the rise of imperialist conviction reminds us that the phenomenon was not just a background to new currents of imperial political thought, but one of the transformations imperial thinkers aimed to explain. …”

An informational right to the city? Code, content, control, and the urbanization of information by Shaw, J, Graham, M

“…—the paper seeks to apply post-political theory in exploring a path to the possibility of more just information geographies.…”

Evangelical Toleration by Bejan, T

“…This article recovers “evangelical toleration” as a neglected tradition in early modern political thought with important consequences for contemporary political theory and practice. Many political theorists dismiss the prudential arguments made by “proto-liberal” thinkers like Roger Williams or John Locke in favor of toleration as a necessary precondition for evangelism and conversion as intolerant, unacceptably instrumental, and inessential to their deeper theories. …”

Liberal democratic states and responsibilities to refugees by Gibney, M

“…In this article I employ the resources of political theory to examine and provide an answer to the question of how liberal democracies should respond to the claims of refugees to enter and reside in their territory. …”

The Peace System - As a self-referential communication system by Gorm Harste

“…Peace communication as diplomatic communication is an often neglected phenomenon in social and political theory that concerns problems of international order, justice and peace. …”
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Integrative Democracy: Mary Parker Follett’s Integration and Deliberative Democracy by Graham Wright

“…In her 1918 work The New State Follett articulates a normative political theory that I refer to as Integrative democracy, which can be seen as an alternative formulation of deliberative democracy that is based on an activity that Follett refers to as integration rather than deliberation. …”
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The Dual Lives of “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” by Gregory H. Fox, Brad R. Roth

“…On the one hand, it is almost universally cited as having brought international lawyers into the freewheeling debate of the early 1990s among scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and political theory about the so-called “Third Wave” of democratization. …”
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<i>Großraum</i> versus <i>Lebensraum</i>. Die Interdependenzen geographischer, juristischer und rassenbiologischer Ordnungsvorstellungen by U. Jureit

“…<p>Between 1940 and 1943, Nazi jurists such as Reinhard Höhn and Werner Best worked on a political theory of racial-biological rule, which they contoured in a controversy with Carl Schmitt over the basic principles of international law and of a European <i>Großraum</i>. …”
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Once Again on Aristotle and the Identity of the Athenian Nomothetai. A Response to Gertrud Dietze-Mager by Mirko Canevaro, Alberto Esu

“…In response, we start with a concise summary of our interpretation of the constitutional stages in the Athenaion Politeia in light of the socio-economic methodology of Politics IV, and clarify the role of Aristotle’s political theory in our reconstruction. We then provide a close reading of some key evidence about the identity of the Athenian nomothetai (particularly Aeschin. …”
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Fostering Feminist Politics of Veganism: On ‘the Political’ in Donna Haraway’s Approach to Food, Eating and Animals by Kuura Irni

“…Drawing on Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick’s analysis of Haraway’s work in relation to political theory and Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic approach to the political, this paper instead argues that Haraway’s contribution is neither particularly set against veganism nor is it depoliticised. …”
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The Instrumental Value of Deliberative Democracy – Or, do we have Good Reasons to be Deliberative Democrats? by Jonathan W. Kuyper

“…Though commanding a prominent role in political theory, deliberative democracy has also become a mainstay of myriad other research traditions in recent years. …”
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Uncertain theoretical foundations of cultural rights by Jeff Spinner Halev

“…Cultural membership, he argued, was such an important good that liberal political theory was amiss in overlooking it; it needed to be amended in order to recognize that the self-respect of most people was tied to cultural membership, and that people needed a secure cultural context in which to make choices. …”
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Legislative Oversight and Executive Accountability in South Africa by Shadi Maganoe

“… A glance at political theory reveals a preoccupation with the corrosive nature of power, in particular with how to ensure that the governors are sufficiently accountable to the governed. …”
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Modern Confucian Objection against Communism in China by Téa SERNELJ

“…Even though all other adherents of Modern Confucianism were focused upon metaphysics and ontology rather than political theory, Xu believed that these lines of thought could not contribute enough to solving the various urgent social and political problems of modern China. …”
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