Republican Theory in Political Thought

by Bill Brugger and Brugger

The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late- eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates. It maps out a republican ideal type according to four themes - popular sovereignty, a view of history which is sensitive to systemic corruption, an insistence on civic virtue and, following...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349412562
• ISBN13: 9781349412563
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"