englischWar and emergency powers have existed over the centuries in different countries, raising questions about the political authority related to them. ‘US Congress’ Powers under Debate’ illustrates how war and emergency powers have been understood and what kind of concepts and argumentation have [...]

englisch‘Democratic crisis revisited’ illuminates and reconceptualises the multiple facets of the contemporary crises of democracy in Europe and beyond. It combines context-specific case studies from examples all over Europe, and especially from Eastern Europe, with a theoretical reconceptualisation [...]

This monograph examines Scottish unionist political thought and intellectual history in the period from 1885/1886 to 1965. It provides an analytical examination of unionist positions, examining such areas as political history, ecclesiology, sectarianism, historiography and unionist–nationalist [...]

englischMax Weber’s interpretations of key concepts such as power (Macht), rule (Herrschaft) and the state are today academic commonplaces. In this book, Kari Palonen discusses when, why and how such Weberian concepts were coined and against which views and authors he used them in polemic debate. [...]

englischContemporary political theory has lost sight of founding moments by recasting the problem as illustrative of the more general creativity of politics. This book sets out to re-find founding moments by way of a dialogue between Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin. Bound by its [...]

englischThe book comprises seven interconnected essays that aim to enrich our understanding of Mill’s thinking and his political liberalism as a historically determined narrative. It does so by drawing on recent historiographical debates, the theoretical assumptions of the “New History of Political [...]

englischRecent studies manifest a new interest in the politics of internal parliamentary practices. The book presents a thesis that a shift from oratory to debate characterises the parliamentarisation of deliberative rhetoric. Parliamentary speeches are intelligible only as political interventions p [...]

englischIntertwined political and economic crises have battered citizens of EU-states for several years now. Due to demanding austerity politics ”democracy” seems to remain, in many cases, only an empty phrase. This book examines the challenges to parliamentary politics today but also explores its [...]

englischThe international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present [...]