What can be done to reduce the likelihood of future wars? While states’ decisions that bear on war are ultimately made by their political leaders, strengthening ordinary citizens’ control of those leaders is vital to reduce the risk of future wars. This thesis can be broken down into two...

Ein Buch mit einer bestrickenden Konzeption: Alle umfassenderen theoretischen Alternativen zum zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus werden hier eingehend untersucht - angefangen bei den utopischen Entwürfen in der Ideengeschichte, über Sozialismus, Anarchismus und Planwirtschaft bis hin zu...

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...