2023-07-02
MacIver wrote ‘ The Modern State’ (State was simply one association among the rest)
Modern Constitution was written by K C Wheare
Modern democracies was written by James Bryce
Thomas Aquinas:
books: On Being and Essence, Summa Theologica
He gave the hierarchy of law.
C.B. Macpherson: The real world of democracy
Abdulhameed Kayode Agboola: Democracy in the 21st Century
Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’
Hegle: Science of Logic, ‘Elements of the Philosophy of Right(1820)’
Ernest Barker: Modern theory of nationalism, 'Social and Political Theory' (1951)
Herman Finer: The theory and practice of moder government
Edward Finer: 'The History of Government' - Comparative analysis of Government from earliest time
Alan J. Ware: ‘Political Parties and Party Systems(2003)’
Thomas Pain: Utopia, Rights of man - 1791
David Mitrany: Functional integration theory, ‘ The Functional Theory of Politics(1975)’
Thucydides: Melian dialogue (about 400 BCE)
Stephen D. Krasner: International Regimes (1983)
Andrew Moravcsik: Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Relations (1997)
Justin Rosenberg: The follies of globalisation Theory (2000), The empire of civil society
Andrew Linklater: Beyond Realism and Marxism(1990), ‘The Transformation of Political Community’ (1998), Critical Theory and World Politics (2007)
Jean Bethke Elshtain: Just War Theory( 1991), New Wine in Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse (1998), Women and War(1995)
Christine Sylvester: Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey(2001)
Thomas Hobbs: ‘De Cive’ (On the citizen), ‘De Corpore’ (On the Body) , ‘De Homine ‘ (liberating Man) • ‘The Elements of Law’, ‘Natural and Politic’ • ‘Leviathan’- his seminal creation- social contract/sovereign
John Lock: ‘A Letter Concerning Toleration’ • ‘Two Treatises of Government’ • ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ‘• ‘Some Thoughts Concerning Education’. 3 principles of property-no wastage, sufficiency condition, lobour restriction
Friedrich Hayek: ‘The Road to Serfdom’
Hobhouse: Proponents of social liberalism- social democracy.
‘wealth had a social dimension and was a collective product’
Books: Liberalism (1911), Social Evolution and Political Theory (1911), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1918)
David Hume: ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’
Jeremy Bentham: ‘A fragment on government’(1776); "Essay on Political Tactics"(1791)