Best of the Web - What's New in Science For 1/25/2007

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics

British Government Politics - Includes general links, government departments and organizations, publications, individual UK reports, politics, political parties, and international government.
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy - Non-profit organization studies Islamic and democratic political thought and merges into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - Collaborative program of research among election studies composes of module of public opinion survey questions, district level data, and system or macro level data report.
Documents on Mexican Politics - Documents to the current political discussions include democracy, freedom of the press, analysis on political parties, Nafta and maquiladoras, economy, political documents, and research articles.
Election Resources - Contains links that provides national and local statistics, and blog on election matters.
Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success - Addresses comparative research into extreme right parties, and embarks socio-demographic and attitudinal evolution of electorate.
Accurate Democracy - PoliticalSim - Makes the power of voting rules with understanding through visual displays.
Conditions of Efficient Democracy - Includes discussions on the reasons of unacceptable trend and political developments, and renewal of democratic process.
Role Of The Constitution And The Law In A Free Society - States that the role of a constitution is to provide scope for good government and places limitations on the powers of the governors.
Moore, Will H. - Contains links on research, courses, research papers, data projects, and links to violent political conflict.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government

Founding.com - Covers the declaration of independence, issues on equality, and the basis for the theory of the declaration.
More Perfect Union – Symbolizing the National Union of States - Explains that symbols for new nation are history encoded in visual shorthand.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Bureaucracy

Council of Economic Advisers - Analyzes and interprets economic developments to appraise programs and activities of the government, and formulates national economic policy to promote employment, production, and purchasing power.
Environmental Protection Agency - Protects human health and the environment, develops and enforces regulations, offers financial assistance, performs environmental research and sponsors voluntary programs.
Central Intelligence Agency - Presents annual reports, FAQs, links, special collections, and frequently asked records.
Federal Reserve System - Provides monetary and financial system, supervises and regulates banking institutions, maintains stability and provides financial services.
Office of the Management and Budget - Assists the President in overseeing the preparations of the federal budget, formulates the President's spending plans, and helps improve administrative management.
United State Government Policy and Supporting Positions – The Plum Book - Lists federal civil service leadership, supports positions in the legislative and executive branches, and identifies appointed positions within the Federal Government.
Political Activity (Hatch Act) - Discussion of restrictions on political activity provides information on Hatch Act for federal and local employees, state and roles.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Civil_Liberties > Fifth_Amendment

Reason Foundation - Produces public policy research and develops, applies, and promotes libertarian principles.
Takings of Private Property – Fifth Amendment - Article on the Fifth Amendment states “Private property shall not be taken without just compensation.”.
Fifth Amendment Issues in Divorce Cases - US Constitution states, “No person can be compelled to give evidence against himself.” Article also details parties to divorce action, nonparty witnesses, sanctions against party invoking privilege, and defenses.
Fifth Amendment – Rights of Persons - No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.
Summary of Findings and Conclusion of the Citizens’ Truth-In-Taxation Hearing - States that self-incrimination is absolute and unalienable, there is no Fifth Amendment exception for tax matters, and if a person will file, Fifth Amendment rights is waived.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Civil_Liberties > Fifth_Amendment > Due_Process

Due Process of Law – Procedural and Substantive Issues - Explains the exercise of government power under the rule of law with due regard for the essential and fundamental fairness rights of individuals.
Little Word “Due” - Article on “due” which means if it is owed according to positive law and should not be used to convert natural law into enforceable law outside the democratic and republican procedures.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Civil_Liberties > First_Amendment

Center for Democracy and Technology - Promotes democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age, and seeks practical solutions for free expression and privacy in global communications technologies.
National Archives - Contains resources on primary sources, activities and trainings that include lesson plans, research, conferences, publications, and history.
First Amendment and Freedom of the Press - Provision protects the press from all government, whether local, state or federal.
First Amendment Center - Center serves as forum for free-expression issues, freedom of speech, press and religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government.
First Amendment Handbook - Covers libel, invasion of privacy, surreptitious recording, confidential sources and information, prior restraints, gag orders, access to courts and places, freedom of act and copyright.
Religious Tolerance - First Amendment - Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, writing and publishing, assembly, and the freedom to raise grievances with the Government.
Cornell Law School - Federal Rules of Evidence - Covers general provision, judicial note, presumptions in civil actions and proceedings, relevancy and its limit, opinions and expert testimony, authentication, contents and miscellaneous rules.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Short history on the members of the committee on building coalitions with other media-related organizations to protect reporters' rights, to keep sources confidential and keep an eye on legislative efforts that impact the public's right to know.
Religious Tolerance – Jefferson’s 1777 Draft of a Bill for Religious Freedom - Guarantees religious freedom for individual, while erecting a wall of separation between church and government.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Civil_Rights

African American History - Project document provides selection of important events and topics that include the Dred Scott Case, after civil war, civil rights movement, and school integration.
Chinese American History Timeline - Provides listings on the history timeline from 1848 adopted from Sandra Liu's Asian American Studies.
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Discrimination - Contains information on laws and regulations that include civil rights division, US commission on civil rights, and equal employment opportunity commission.
American Civil Rights Laws - Presents short history from year 1776 include civil rights act, and amendments.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Congress

Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation - Collections record American history and houses US congressional documents in original format.
Congressional Archives - Contains papers ranges in time from the Civil War era to the present, manuscripts collections, photographic images, maps, and audiovisual pieces.
Congressional Observer Publications - Presents votes and vote descriptions, titles and studies, congressional membership information and links.
CongressLink - Provides information about how US Congress works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces.
Congress.org - Features president and vice presidents, federal agencies, Supreme Court, state and local officials, issues, letters and news.
Committee on Rules - Includes committee schedule, special announcements, amendment summaries, news, and parliamentary outreach program.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Federalism

Assessing New Federalism - Research policy center tracks children and families and the health and social welfare programs.
National Conference of State Legislatures - Organization provides research, technical assistance, and opportunities to policymakers, and information on its mission and governance, services, committees and foundation.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - Proffers information on employment opportunities, acquisition solutions, e-tools, events, news, training programs, and organizations.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Foreign_Policy

World Foreign Affairs and National Security - Focuses on peacekeeping efforts in places like the Kosovo, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
American Foreign Policy Council - Organization is the source of analysis on issues of foreign policy, Congress and policymaking community.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School – A Decade of American Foreign Policy - Features wartime documents looking toward peace, conferences, organizations and agencies, inter-American systems, and defeated and occupied areas.
Emerging from Conflict - Normalizes bilateral relations between the United States and other countries, and attempts to improve dialogues and discussions.
Foreign Policy Association - Non-profit organization provides independent publications, programs and forums on policy issues.
Heritage Foundation - Research and educational institute formulates and promotes public policies.
Foreign Relations of the Unites States - Includes press releases, foreign relations series, summaries and lists of information volumes.
Multilaterals Project - Improves public access to environmental agreements, and provides collection of treaties and historical texts.
Pacific Council on International Policy - Builds non-partisan network, generates ideas, research and proposals, and provides information on global challenges and opportunities.
US Department of State - Digital Diplomacy for Students - Highlights department information, social studies, and the secretary of the state, career explorations and arts.
US – India Friendship.net - Features important issues, viewpoints, congressional statements, and news, archives and links.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Advances balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in Middle East, and strengthens alliances, friendships, and democracy.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Media

Annenberg Washington Program - Program in communications policy studies as forum in the nation’s capital examines pressing communications policy issues.
Center for Media and Public Affairs - Research and educational organization conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media, and features political humor publications, and employment opportunities.
Pew Center for Civic Journalism - Stimulates citizen involvement in community issues, and provides workshops, publications, videos, and other outreach programs.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > American_Government > Public_Opinion

American National Election Studies - Produces data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to research in understanding national elections.
Tarrance Group - Opinion-based research provides political polling and campaign consulting, corporate affairs and reputation management, and research overseas.
Public Opinion Poll Question Database - Provides data download on an opinion poll and displays detailed catalog that include retrieved questions.
National Organization for Research, University of Chicago - Project includes complex survey and other data collection strategies, empirical analysis, and facilitates personal and professional development.
Pew Research Center - Independent opinion research group studies press, politics, and public policy issues.
PollingReport.com - Resource on politics and policy includes American scene, sample articles, job bank, and data from national surveys of the American public.
RhodesCook.com - Features voter turnout and congressional change, analysis, biography, bookstore, and links.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - Contains social science data, and data from surveys of public opinion.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > Personal_Pages

Clarke, Harold - Features Clarke’s scientific heroes, Canadian national election data archive, working papers, political science and time series data.
Downs, William M. - Research and teaching interest comprises of comparative and European politics with emphasis on western and northern Europe, and political economy.
Friedman, Douglas - Teaching and research interest includes comparative politics, Latin America, economic and political development, revolution, and political theory.
Pugaciauskas, Vykintas - Academic interest includes comparative politics, radical parties and institutional models.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Comparative_Politics > Publications

Comparative Politics - International journal publishes scholarly articles on comparative analysis of political institutions and behavior presents recent and back issues, style sheet, subscription information and books.
European Journal of Political Research - Journal of the European consortium for political research features articles like the rise and fall of decentralization, delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies, and economic freedom.
Journal Democracy - International forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints focuses exclusively on democracy.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations

Anholt Nation Brands Index - Surveys and analyzes consumers in terms of cultural appeal, political stability, and investment potential.
Carnegie Council - Voice for ethics in international policy, convenes forums and creates educational opportunities and information resources.
Center for Studies in Democracy and Culture - Stimulates understanding and study of comparative cultural qualities, organizes seminars and conferences, and disseminates information and materials.
Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization - Multidisciplinary project highlights issues of the definition, measurement, impacts, and policy implications.
Conversation with History - Provides unedited and live video interviews that can be access by guest name, date, and topic.
Diplomacy Monitor - Utilizes specially developed proprietary software to globally track diplomatic and international trade, interview transcripts and news releases from related links.
International Relations and Security Trends - Integrated database system contains documented information that covers areas in the field of international relations and security.
Center of International Relations - Research center facilitates internationally oriented interdisciplinary research and curricula.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation - Facilitates research into the causes of international conflict and cooperation, and features programs, research, publications, and contact.
International Relations, News and Research Resources - Provides meta-links to news and research, English newspapers, wire services, magazines and journals.
Department of International Relations - Emphasizes in interdepartmental co-operation and interdisciplinary research, and features news, conflict analysis and development unit, journal, and students.
Oxford Analytica - Independent consulting firm provides global strategic analysis of geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments.
Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School - Interdisciplinary center on negotiation and conflict resolution presents lectures, discussions, classes, and conferences, publications and teaching materials.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations > Organizations

Agora Group - Considers development in the area of policy involvement from a youth perspective, which promotes youth involvement in democracy.
Civil Society Participation in International Governance - Discusses on the appropriate role of civil society in the institutions of international governance links forums, resources, international organizations, and discussion groups.
Conflict Solutions International - Independent organization serves as fact-finder, monitor and mediator, provides key resources, and is action and crisis oriented.
Focus on the Global South - Non-governmental organization dismantles oppressive economic and political structures, and promotes demilitarization and peace building.
Global Affairs - Discusses current events, environmental and economic issues or politics in general, and features lists of links, book recommendations, resources, quotes, photo albums and poll.
Institute for International Relations - Scientific policy research organization engages in international economic and political relations, resource economics and environmental policy, and strategic decision analysis.
Young Europeans for Security - Promotes active debate and advocates on vital issues of international security, and provides news, briefings, current events, and resources.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations > Publications

African Geopolitics - Contains listing by author, title, issues, documents, book reviews, contacts, and resources.
American Diplomat - Features directors and staff, archives, contact, submission guidelines, links, commentary and analysis, announcements and special reports.
American Interest - Analyzes America’s conduct on the global stage, economic, cultural and historical dimensions and examines American policy.
AntePodium - Journal dedicated to scholarly research on politico-strategic, politico-economic and politico-cultural dimensions of world affairs.
Brown Journal of World Affairs - Publication examines contemporary international issues. Provides forum, complimentary international topics and issues, and essays.
Review of International Studies - Covers international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology, and publishes research articles, surveys, forum, and interviews.
Center for Contemporary Conflict - Conducts research on current and emerging security issues and interests include asymmetric conflict, weapons of mass destruction, regional instability and strategic nuclear policy.
World Policy Journal - Forum on international relations features past and recent issues, research projects, media guide, discussion and calendar of events.
Routledge – Military, Strategic and Security Studies - Contains links to Routledge list, series and books, catalogue downloads, journals, and publications.
Current History - Provides titles, abstracts and articles from current and previous issues, global report, history ordering, index and history.
Diplomatic History - Journal devoted to US international history and foreign relations includes gender, culture, ethnicity and ideology issues.
E-merge - Journal of international affairs provides news articles, book reviews, archive and call for papers.
European Journal of International Affairs - Independent research institute operates in various fields and areas in Euro-Asian relations, migrations policies, Franco-Italian relations, and space technology policy.
Foreign Affairs - Publication on international affairs and foreign policy provides understanding and free exchange of ideas through forum and publications.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations > Theory

Columbia International Affairs Online - Features working papers, journals, books, policy briefs, case studies, events, reviews and maps.
International Relations Theory - Provides understanding and explanation of events and phenomena in world politics and entails the development of conceptual frameworks.
Mills, William de B. - Political methodologist and futurist’s publications, research areas, and recent presentations.
Nationality and Sovereignty in the New World Order - Includes transnational flows of capital, labor, products, and ideas, and investigates political, economic and social questions on the rapid forming of cyberspaces.
Peace between Nations - Discussions includes topic on the causes of war, underlying situation that permits wars, and how to avoid war.
Political Systems, Violence, and War - Answer the relations of violence and war, and covers democracies nonviolence, classic liberals, and critics.
Postmodernist Theorist in International Relations - Bibliography contains summaries and criticism, authors, and collection of debates.
Scripts for International Relations Students - Includes book recommendations, and links to international organization, public law and economics, political science, and history.
International Relations - Provides conceptual model on the analysis of international relationships, theories and different assumptions.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations > Theory > Liberalism

Parallels between American Ideologies of Manifest Destiny and Liberal Internationalism - Lists differences of manifest destiny in the 19th century includes its religious, racial, and liberal origins, and liberal internationalism in the 20th – 21st century.
Liberalism and Neoliberalism - Articles discuss liberalism and its variants in the theories of international relations.
Liberalism in International Relations - Focuses on the resurgence of liberalism after the cold war and includes institutionalization and rule of law, realism, and liberal values.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > International_Relations > Theory > Realism

Theory and International Politics, Conversation with Kenneth N Waltz - Features Waltz’s education and influences, and views on philosophical theories, theory of international politics, unipolar world, and deterrence and rogues.
Kenneth Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better - Publication on the spreading of nuclear weapons to the world includes its connection to the international politics.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations Struggle for Power and Piece - Contains explanations and discussions on the six principles of political realism.
Realism - Dominant forces guiding international relations theory and foreign policy, tenets or realism, criticisms and aspects.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Althusser,_Louis

Althusser – A Critique: Competing Interpellations and the Third Text - Dr. Vaknin summarizes Althusser’s definitions, concepts, and practices on cultural issues.
Louis Althusser Archive - Features Althusser’s biography, early writings in 1953, writers listing and references.
Marxist Media Theory - Chronicles Althusser’s life as French Marxist philosopher, works, relationships, conflict and theory.
Louis Althusser: On Marxism - Treatise explores problems with Marx early works, historical materialism, and dialectical materialism.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Bakunin,_Mikhail

Bakunin – CD-Rom - Compilations of Russian anarchist Mikhail Aleksandrovic Bakunin’s writings, images and transcriptions in the period of 1823-1879.
Anarchy Archives – Micheal Bakunin - Contains detail on biography, collected works, bibliography, commentary, and graphics.
Micheal Alexandrovic Bakunin and the Non-Political Theory - Analysis on the political theory of Bakunin includes personal and political biographies, critique, and works.
Bakunin, Mikhail, 1814-1876 - Describes Bakunin as one of the intellectual founding fathers of anarchism, and Marx's historical rival.
Spunk Library – Mikhail Bakunin - Article about the Irish anarchist workers solidarity movement; includes Bakunin’s developing actions, ideas and writings towards anarchism.
Reference Archive – Mikhail Bakinun - Source material includes biography, lists of works, writing collections, Bakunin on anarchy and links to anarchist archives.
Putting The Record Straight On – Mikhail Bakunin - Article shows Bakunin’s true theory of revolutionary action, and details topics on spontaneity, apoliticism, refusal of authority, and class movement.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Bloom,_Allan

Allan Bloom’s Last Testament - Article from novelist Saul Bellow’s confession on Bloom’s sexuality, works and books.
Longing – Remembering Allan Bloom - Publication from the New Republic states Bellow’s commentaries on Bloom’s death, books, and achievements.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Bookchin,_Murray

Anarchy Archives – Murray Bookchin - Contains details on biography, collected works, bibliography, commentary, and graphics.
Listen, Marxist! – Murray Bookchin - Discusses concerns, conflicts and reactions on Marx, historical limits of Marxism, and myth of the proletariat.
Synthetic Environment – Murray Bookchin - Contains topics on problems, agriculture and health, urban life, problems of chemicals on foods, radiation, cancer, human ecology and society.
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism – An Unbridgeable Chasm - Bookchin’s writing explains anarchism as an ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas, its tendencies, and effects.
To Remener Spain – The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 - Essay by Bookchin contains overview of the Spanish libertarian movement, and the Spanish civil war after fifty years.
What is Communalism? - Manuscript from Bookchin defines communalism as the democratic dimension of anarchism.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Burke,_Edmund

Biographies – Edmund Burke - Chronicles Burke’s life as a lawyer, writer and politician.
Reflections on The Revolution of France - Presents a letter by Burke about the revolution.
Mallow: Edmund Burke - Contains image and brief biography.
Biography of Edmund Burke 1729-1797 - Provides information about the British statesman and his life as a prominent political thinker.
Burke, Edmund - Encyclopedia.com presents biographies, related topics, images, video, and magazine and newspaper articles.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Burke,_Edmund > Works

Letter to a Noble Lord - Response to parliament’s objection to Burke’s state pension by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale.
Speech on conciliation with America – March 22, 1775 - Provides information about Burke’s proposition of peace.
On Taste - Details on how Burke defined taste as no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
The Sublime and Beautiful - Details how Burke’s aesthetic treatise sought to unite philosophy with psychology.
Reflection on the Revolution in France - Details Burke’s primary antirevolutionary work as it questioned the motives of the actors and warned against the pulling down of all society.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Draper,_Hal

Berkeley – The New Student Revolt - Forces influencing students at Berkeley includes involvement in the civil-rights movement, and internal and external problems from political activities.
Marxists’ Archive – Hal Draper - Contains chronological index of documents, and a section labeled as an "introduction to Draper".
Two Souls of Socialism – Hal Draper - Rewritten and expanded version of a study illustrates a thesis on the meaning of socialism and of how it means today.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Dunayevskaya,_Raya

Philosophy and Revolution: Chapter 6 - Discusses Sartre and the founding of French Existentialism.
Philosophy and Revolution: Chapter 9 - Discusses the black dimension, anti-Vietnam war youth, rank-and-file labor, and women's liberation.
New and Letters – Raya Dunayevskaya - Provides information about the founder of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Engels,_Friedrich

Marx and Engels Archive - Contains multi-lingual and subject index, collected and selected works, and an image gallery.
Modern History Sourcebook – Friedrich Engels - Sheds light on Engels’ life at the industrial Manchester in 1844.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Frederick Engels focuses on early human history, disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society on private property.
Socialism – Utopian and Scientific - Contents covers history of materialism, and the English middle-class.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Hobbes,_Thomas

Hobbes, Thomas - Details the English scholar and amateur mathematician’s writings on optics and geometry.
Hobbes’ Moral and Political Philosophy - Features the political philosopher’s writings and his philosophical projects.
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes - Work contains the definite enunciation made up to that time of the doctrine of the social contract.
Hobbe’s Leviathan - Shows information about the person whose work developed the vocabulary for philosophy in the English language by using Anglicized versions of the technical terms from Latin and Greek authors.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Hobhouse,_Leonard_Trelawney

Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny - Contains Hobhouse’s writings on the metaphysical theory of the state and liberalism.
L. T. Hobhouse - Social theorist is noted for prominence in the fields of liberalism and sociology.
Spartacus Educational: L. T. Hobhouse - Features Hobhouse’s family, education, publication, works, books and profession.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > James,_C.L.R.

Beyond a Boundary – CLR James - Details James’ personal memoir and his social history.
Marxists.org: C L R James Archive - Offers links to biography, selected works, and articles on Marxism, revolution, and black history.
Notes on Dialectics – Part II, The Hegelian Logic - Contains topics like doctrine of being and essence and appearance and actuality.
C.L.R. James, September 5th, 1980 - Transcript of interviews with Ken Ramchand.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Kirk,_Russell

Acton Institute – Russell Kirk - Provides information about the father of the American conservative movement. Includes fiction and nonfiction books, essays and reviews.
Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal - Nonprofit educational institute strengthens cultural, economic, and religious foundations in the Western civilization.
Kirk, Russell - Provides resources that center on the premier architect of the post-World War II conservative intellectual revival.
Permanent Things - Forum for people interested in the ideas and writings of Russell Kirk; includes lecture announcements, seminars and stories.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Kirk,_Russell > Works

Freud and the Educationists - Study contains a scrutiny of the Freudian psychology and its impact in education.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Lukács,_Georg

Georg Lukacs Archive - Includes biography, and topic listings on history and class-consciousness that include reification and the consciousness of the proletariat.
Georg Lukacs – Antinomies of Melancholy - Provides information about Lukacs’ family and the ideology of modernism.
Georg Lukacs: Hegel’s Economics During the Jena Period - Offers analysis of economic views, originality, methodology, and influences.
The First Studies In Economics - Clarifies Hegel’s concrete relations between dialectics and his study of economics.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Maistre,_Joseph_Marie_de

Joseph-Marie, Conte de Maistre - Sheds light on the philosophical writer’s life, education, works, writings and publications, books, and views.
Cybernation - Joseph De Maistre - Contains quotes to inspire, empower and motivate life and dreams.
de Maistre, Joseph - Repository of Maistre’s writings and English translations, portrait, brief biography, and archives.
Joseph De Maistre - The Diine Origins of Constitutions, 1810 - Proposition that states that fundamental principles of political constitutions exist before all written law, and constitutional law is, and can only be, the development or sanction of an unwritten pre-existing right.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Marx,_Karl

Communist Manifestot - Shows a document by Marx and Engels that discusses communism as a rising power in Europe.
Role of the Least-expected Planet in Astrocartography - Outlines transcendental biographies and events, and psychic inflation.
Free Library – Karl Marx - Features life, education, works and writings, and includes famous quotations by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
History Guide – Karl Marx - Recounts the philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary’s success as an influential socialist thinker.
Karl Marx – The Story of His Life - Features Marx’s early years including his life as a pupil of Hegel and as an exile in Paris, London and Brussels.
Philosophy Pages – Karl Marx - Topic includes life and works, alienation, communism, and economics.
MarX-Files - Guide contains links to Marx’s major works.
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 - Details two notebooks of Marx from different manuscripts, one single double-folio sheet and two separate continuing pages.
German Social Philosopher and Revolutionary - Marx with Friedrich Engels influence the development of socialist thought.
Marx, Karl - Chronicles Marx’s life as a protestant and details his education, works, profession, writings, books, and theories.
Two Months of Red Splendor – The Paris Commune and Marx’ Theory of Revolution - Contains Karl Marx's thinking about the revolutionary process that naturally evolved and developed. Also shows an analysis of the revolutionary process.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Proudhon,_Pierre-Joseph

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 1809-1865 - French socialist-anarchist features major works and resources listings.
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865) - Chronicles the French social theorist’s history as an exponent of mutualist socialism.
Proudhon and his “Bank of the People” - Shows an 1896 document that describes Proudhon as prominent and notorious in Europe.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government - Document covers the idea of revolution, occupation and civil law and property in general.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Spooner,_Lysander

Essay on the Trial By Jury - Covers the right of juries to judge the justice of law, and the moral considerations for jurors.
Spooner, Lysander - Insight - Includes links to Spooner’s important writings, quotes, and insight.
Biography - Spooner, Lysander - Provides information on Spooner’s life, history, scholarship, news and influences.
Natural Law - Writing on the science of justice as science of all human rights, man’s rights of person and property, and rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Spirit of Lysander Spooner - Features writings, biographical information, and links to essays, documents and journals.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Strauss,_Leo

Leo Strauss and American Foreign Policy - Covers foreign policy, Strauss’ and American principles today.
Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor - Explains irony in the fact that the chief guru of the neoconservatives is a thinker of religion and considered as political tool intended for the masses.
Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind - About the school of conservative intellectuals, and Strauss’ significance for philosophical analysis of liberalism.
Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political Philosophy - Writing by Harry V. Jaffa about Strauss’ assertions concerning the insolubility of the opposition between revelation and reason as to the highest principle of human life.
Leo Strauss and Early Modern Political thought - Describes Strauss’ position as defense of the structures to the moral and political imagination against leveling tendencies at work in modernity.
What Is Liberal Education? - Defines liberal education as training in the highest forms of modesty, training in boldness, and is liberation from vulgarity.
Leo Strauss’ Platonism - Discusses on Strauss’ actual interpretations of Platonic texts, tradition of Neo-Platonic and Christian interpretation, and contribution to contemporary thought.
Straussians vs. Paleoconservatives - Explanations on the irreconcilability of Straussians and Paleos, and distinguishes the disciples of Leo Strauss with the neoconservatives.
What was Leo Strauss up to? - Discusses Strauss’ rediscovery, historicism and relativism, nature and natural right, ancients and moderns, Socrates and Machiavelli, and influences.
Leo-strauss list - Provides forum for thoughtful discussion of the ideas and works of Leo Strauss.
Strauss-reading - Spotlights a Yahoo! Group that provides a venue for slow reading of the works of Leo Strauss.
Leo Strauss’ Philosophy of Deception - Topic includes rule of deception, principle on the power of religion, and aggressive nationalism.
Profile – Leo Strauss, Fascist Godfather of the Neo-Cons - Details Strauss’ influence on politics and issues on the neo-conservative ideologues.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Tucker,_Benjamin

Benjamin Tucker – Biographical information - Features collected works, bibliography, collected works, and links to resources.
Tucker, Benjamin (1854-1939) - Lists personal papers with descriptions from the Labadie collection.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Political_Philosophy > Political_Philosophers > Weaver,_Richard_M.

Ideas Have Consequences - Book by Weaver about the dissolution of the West.
Religion and Liberty – Richard M. Weaver - Covers Weaver’s life of hard work, self-sacrifice and virtue, career, and belief on property.
Weaver of Liberty - Covers a traditionalists' recommendation that the works of Ludwig von Mises be a staple of a good university education.

Top > Science > Social_Sciences > Political_Science > Public_Policy

Electronic Hallway - Repository of quality teaching cases and other curriculum materials includes public administration, public policy and related subjects.
Heinz School of Public Policy and Management - Center for the study of urban and social issues, understands the causes of critical social problems, and integrates policy, management and information technology.
History and Policy - Independent initiative links historians in analyzing, discussing and deciding public policy.
Introduction to Social Policy - Study of social welfare, and its relationship to politics and society focuses on social services and welfare state.
Issues in Science and Technology - Forum for discussion of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine, policy for science, and science for policy.
Moving Ideas - Provides lists of topics for discussion, organization membership, issues, events and job listings.
School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University - Approaches interdisciplinary field of public policy that includes government solutions, and highlights policy applications.
PolicyPolicy Library Library - Social, economic and foreign policy resource updates job listings, research and events.
Program on International Policy Attitudes - Studies public opinion on international issues features research projects, personnel, publications, jobs and internships.
Research Forum - Promotes policy relevant research that monitors and evaluates effects of current public policy changes under new federalism.
Robertson School o Government, Regent University - Provides information on academics, admissions, resources, career services, news and events, and FAQs.
Rockridge Institute - Non-profit think tank dedicated to democracy provides intellectual support and reframes public debate.
Sanford Institute of Public Policy - Understands and seeks solutions to local, national and global policy issues. Offers undergraduate and graduate programs, and provide centers, news and events, research and employment.

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