Republicanism in the Modern World
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780745628073
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Social & political philosophy; Political Science; Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Republicanism; Political; Political Ideologies - Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE_PHILOSOPHY; Philosophy / Political; History & Theory - General; Civics & Citizenship; General
First sentence: Contemporary republicanism is steeped in a long tradition of thinking about politics that dates back to the ancient Greek writers and can be traced through the Romans and into writers such as Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Harrington, and Madison.