Habermas leitor de Rousseau Habermas as a reader of Rousseau by Ricardo Monteagudo

“…This small change restructures the entire Habermasian conception of Rousseau's politics.…”
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Coalitional presidentialism in Brazil: mapping the debate and directions to a new research agenda by Vinícius SILVA ALVES, Denise PAIVA

“…The aim of this paper is to present the current state of the art of one of the most important concepts of Brazilian political science: coalitional presidentialism. …”
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Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo by Motta, Franco

“… The category of ‘Jesuitism’ must be counted among the most long-standing and blurred concepts in the political-religious debate of modern and contemporary Europe. …”
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La fabrique des délivrances et des réductions by Maïté Recasens

“…As part of this collective reflection on the production of sources of memory at the time of the end of the war, this article proposes to compare the corpus of urban memories produced by the consuls and the monarchs during the Wars of Religion (1562-1598). Two conceptions of the political use of memory seem to oppose each other: at the end of urban confrontations, certain Catholic consuls exalt the memory of their victory to remind people of their domination, while the monarchs seek to stifle the noise of fratricidal conflicts to allow a pacifying end to the wars. …”
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Controversies as method for ANTi-History by César Tureta, Bruno Américo, Stewart Clegg

“…We ground our proposal in some of ANTi-history’s assumptions (relationalism, the symmetry principle, and multiplicity) and practical concepts (translation and politics of actor-networks). In addition, we recommend four criteria that researchers should use in choosing a controversy to serve as a starting point for investigation. …”
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Pharaoh and the Divine Wont of Respiting: A Critical Analysis of Quranic Themes by Seyede Saeideh Gharavi, Fateme Sadat Mortazavi

“…This belief plays a vital role in the early centuries of Islamic history in the redefinition of religious concepts, formation of political identity, antagonism, and the formation of independent social identity for Muslims and for specific groups among them.…”
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Revisiting responses to power preponderance : going beyond the balancing-bandwagoning dichotomy by Chong, Ja Ian

“…The author argues that conventional conceptions of international politics that frame state reactions to superior power within the bounds of balancing and bandwagoning are inadequate to understand how state actors are trying to advance and preserve interests in relation to preponderant American power.…”
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Media's street politics: invisible infrastructures of filming in Cairo by Kelada, M

“…The paper explores whether understanding precarious laborers' tactics and mechanics can offer an alternative conception of media's politics that is attuned to the ambivalences and contradictions of life within neoliberal capitalism. …”

Complexité de la société et opinion publique by Niklas Luhmann

“…Public opinion is one of the main concepts of modern politics’ semantic. To understand its real social function, we need to rebuilt it from systems theory. …”
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Salvation in a Palace: Luxurious Representation of Political Spirituality in Iran by Zahra Khoshk jan

“…For analysing the collected data, a qualitative research method was used based on Constructing Grounded Theory. The concept of ‘the politics of constructing spirituality’ as the core category referred to the fact that the main reasons for the luxury and magnificence of Imam Reza’s mausoleum in Iran, are as follows: the existence of political-religious discourse in Iran, trying to continue the process of political socialisation via pilgrimage, representation and induction of symbols of political spirituality, the bond between spiritual salvation, pilgrimage and political liberation.…”
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Patient-centredness and consumerism in healthcare: an ideological mess. by Latimer, T, Roscamp, J, Papanikitas, A

“…In this paper we contrast two concepts that permeate political rhetoric concerning healthcare in the UK and elsewhere: patient centred care and consumerism. …”

Establishment of a National ecological network to conserve biodiversity. Pros and cons of ecological corridors by L. BERGÈS, P. ROCHE, C. AVON

“…After examining the ecological concepts justifying the political goal and presenting the various ecological roles of corridors, we briefly discuss their overall advantages and disadvantages. …”
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The Concept of The Imamate and Sultan at Sulûku'l-Mulûk of Fadlallah Rûzbihan Khuncî by Yunus Kaplan

“…The imamate and sultanate which are one of the most important concepts of Islamic political thought are discussed in more theology and jurisprudence (fiqh) works in the first times. …”
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POLITIK SELEBRITAS ELABORASI TEORITIK TERHADAP MODEL KAMPANYE BARU by Wasisto Raharjo Jati

“…The discussion about concept of celebrity politics is a new study in the social sciences and political landscape in the new Indonesian electoral democracy post-1999. …”
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The Semantic Space of Concepts in Modern British Political Discourse by Nataliia Mykhalchuk, Svitozara Bihunova, Dmytro Bihunov, Ernest Ivashkevych

“…The basic concepts of GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL EVENTS, CITIZEN and ECOLOGY in the British press are analysed, taking into account: 1) the main, dominant, feature; 2) additional “passive” features; 3) the actualization of the internal hidden form. …”
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An Anslysis on Nationalistic Speech in the Poems of Ahmad Shamlu (Based on the Speech Analysis Theory of a Laclau and Mouffe) by Roghaye Sadraei, masoumeh sadeghi

“…Nationalism is considered as one of the concepts affecting the political and social changes in Iran. In the contemperary history of Iran from constitutional era and on, it has been observed in forms of thought and practice. …”
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Towards Smarter and Fairer Justice? A Review of the Chinese Scholarship on Building Smart Courts and Automating Justice by Straton Papagianneas

“…The analysis finds that the generally positive evaluation in the debate can be explained by an instrumentalist understanding of the reform concepts and the political purpose of courts in the Chinese political-legal context.…”
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WHAT IS CELEBRITY POPULISM? THE CASE OF THE CROATIAN SINGER MIROSLAV ŠKORO by Berto Šalaj, Marijana Grbeša

“…Unlike other conceptualisations of celebrity politics, we differentiate between populist and mainstream (pluralist) politics and suggest that we should evaluate celebrity populism on its own merits, rather than subjugate it to a generic concept of “celebrity politics”. We distinguish three categories of populist celebrity politicians: populist celebrities, celebrity populists, and super celebrity populists. …”
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The System of Sources of Islamic Law by A. M. Magomedov

“…Islam can be treated as universal outlook, containing its own concepts of culture, politics and rights, including an original perspective on the construction of legal system different from Europe, whose experience could be useful for the development of world-wide legal system. …”
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Positivism and Reasonableness: Authoritarian Leanings in New Atheism’s Thinking by Michael Roseneck

“…Subsequently, New Atheism’s conception of rational politics will be presented in order to show in which aspects it contradicts the demands of reasonable convictions. …”
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