"This book investigates how belief systems, political behavior, and public action impact the general populace, featuring theoretical concepts and empirical research across pertinent topic areas"--Provided by publisher.

Abstract: Lateinamerika hat sich in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten stark verändert. Auf die Demokratisierungsprozesse seit Ende der 1970er Jahre folgte in den 1980er Jahren die Hinwendung zu neoliberalen Entwicklungsstrategien. Die Reformen sorgten für wirtschaftliche Stabilität, ihre...

Corporation as common constitution -- The political economy of Sir Thomas Smith -- Richard Hooker's corporate Christians -- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English corporation -- Dekker and Company -- Shakespeare's thing of nothing -- Francis Bacon's...

"Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel's social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s work touched upon an exceptionally broad range of social scientific disciplines, from economics to religion, and from education to international affairs. His work consistently appeals to scholars dismayed by existing disciplinary silos. Tocqueville is also well-regarded...

This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of the leading figures in the field

Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are the underlying values that make possible the productive collaboration of the market and the state. This book assesses the theories of democracy and exchange of five...