Legitimizing the Order
Title | Legitimizing the Order PDF eBook |
Author | Hakan T. Karateke |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2005-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047407644 |
The various strategies as to how the Ottoman sultans and the ruling elite tried to inculcate their understanding of authority and legitimacy into the Ottoman population are the focus of the articles in this collected volume.
The Legitimation of New Orders
Title | The Legitimation of New Orders PDF eBook |
Author | Yuansheng Liang |
Publisher | Chinese University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789629962395 |
The contributors to this collection offer seven case studies that treat different aspects of political and ritual legitimation in China and Europe over the past two millennia. With a primary focus on crisis and change, the contributors analyze how rulers and states work to produce a popular political consensus that accepts their rule.
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Title | Rulers, Religion, and Riches PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Rubin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2017-02-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 110703681X |
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States
Title | Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Richards |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2000-12-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521776714 |
Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, and Norman Yoffee, Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, in 1992. In an influential paper, they compared and contrasted the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to the present book, first published in 2000, apply the classic Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of 'high culture', literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
Between Facts and Norms
Title | Between Facts and Norms PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 637 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0745694268 |
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
The Proper Order of Things
Title | The Proper Order of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Heather L. Ferguson |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503605531 |
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals. The Proper Order of Things offers the story of an empire, at once familiar and strange, told through the shifting written vocabularies of power deployed by the Ottomans in their quest to thrive within a competitive early modern environment. Ferguson transcends the question of what these documents said, revealing instead how their formulation of the "proper order of things" configured the state itself. Through this textual authority, she argues, Ottoman writers ensured the durability of their empire, creating the principles of organization on which Ottoman statecraft and authority came to rest.
A Confucian Constitutional Order
Title | A Confucian Constitutional Order PDF eBook |
Author | Jiang Qing |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2012-10-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1400844843 |
What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political future As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing—China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker—says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic work on Confucian constitutionalism to date. Jiang argues against the democratic view that the consent of the people is the main source of political legitimacy. Instead, he presents a comprehensive way to achieve humane authority based on three sources of political legitimacy, and he derives and defends a proposal for a tricameral legislature that would best represent the Confucian political ideal. He also puts forward proposals for an institution that would curb the power of parliamentarians and for a symbolic monarch who would embody the historical and transgenerational identity of the state. In the latter section of the book, four leading liberal and socialist Chinese critics—Joseph Chan, Chenyang Li, Wang Shaoguang, and Bai Tongdong—critically evaluate Jiang's theories and Jiang gives detailed responses to their views. A Confucian Constitutional Order provides a new standard for evaluating political progress in China and enriches the dialogue of possibilities available to this rapidly evolving nation. This book will fascinate students and scholars of Chinese politics, and is essential reading for anyone concerned about China's political future.