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The English term "body politic" is sometimes used in modern legal contexts to describe a type of legal person, typically the state itself or an entity connected to it. A body politic is a type of taxable legal person in British law, for example, [60] and likewise a class of legal person in Indian law.
Stephen Greenblatt has said that the book is a "remarkably vital, generous, and generative work," [2] while the historian Morimichi Watanabe called it a "monumental classic." [ 3 ] Others have called it "an unnoticed volume on the shelves" that remains important and influential in disciplines including art history. [ 4 ]
Previous notions of the concept can be traced back to the Middle Ages in John of Salisbury's work Policraticus, in which the term body politic was coined and used. The term biopolitics was first used by Rudolf Kjellén, a political scientist who also coined the term geopolitics, [2] in his 1905 two-volume work The Great Powers. [6]
Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work [1] is a book written by political science professor George Tsebelis in 2002. It is a game theory analysis of political behavior. . In this work Tsebelis uses the concept of the veto player as a tool for analysing the outcomes of political syste
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory is a 2002 non-fiction book by the British political theorist Bhikhu Parekh and published by Harvard University Press. It creates and defines multiculturalism in the form of political theory as well as political practice in the modern era, being based on Parekh's experience of ...
The Cultural Politics of Emotion, published in 2004 by Edinburgh University Press and Routledge, is a book by Sara Ahmed focusing on the relationship between emotions, language, and bodies. [1] Ahmed concentrates on the influence of emotions on the body and the ways in which bodies relate with communities, producing social relationships that ...
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought is a work of political theory by Princeton Emeritus Professor Sheldon S. Wolin.Part One, consisting of ten chapters and first published in 1960, distinguishes political philosophy from philosophy in general and traces political philosophy from its Platonic origins to modern day.
The Review of Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of politics, philosophy, and history. [1] It was founded in 1939 and is published by Cambridge University Press . [ 2 ]