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Putin 2018: Russian Revanchism and the Authoritarian Alternative

The 2018 Russian Presidential Elections seems to confirm what political theorists since Montesquieu have claimed concerning the country: Russia is a despotism, and that situation is unlikely to change anytime More

Posted On : April 11, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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The Fourth Estate: The Importance of a Free Press for the Maintenance of Good Government

On the morning of October 27th 1787, a trio of New York newspapers, including the Independent Journal, published the first of a series of articles that would eventually become the More

Posted On : March 27, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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Political Theory on the Rise of Nationalism: Historical Roots

A historical overview of the Rise of Nationalism, and nationalism’s role in the formation of modern Europe.

Posted On : February 23, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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Direct Democracy: A Healthy Alternative to Unresponsive Representatives

The belief that democracy is not a perfect system of government has been articulated by both political theorists and regular citizens, and is a recurrent motif in public discourse after More

Posted On : February 20, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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Plutocracy: The Democratic Standard

Debating the merits of plutocracy: a government by the wealthy

Posted On : February 7, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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Federalism: Neither Obsolete nor Outdated

Image Credits: Douglas Simkin, via Flickr Creative Commons The virtues of federalism have been exalted since the Enlightenment, with influential continental theorists such as Montesquieu and Rousseau being proponents of a More

Posted On : December 14, 2017 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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The Modern Legacies of Social Contract Theory: Written Constitutions

The great question among political thinkers during the European Enlightenment was how the authority of the State could be reconciled with the freedom of the Subject. Inspired by the theory More

Posted On : November 16, 2017 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek

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