Political Innovation and Conceptual Change

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Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson
Cambridge University Press, 28 abr 1989 - 366 páginas
This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.

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Editors Introduction
1
Language and political change
6
Understanding conceptual change politically
24
Constitution
50
Democracy
68
The state
90
Representation
132
Party
155
Citizenship
211
Corruption
220
Public opinion
247
Ideology
266
Rights
292
Property
309
Revolution
333
Index
357

Patriotism
177
Public interest
194

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