Barrios Suvelza, Franz Xavier
In the light of the events in Bolivia referring to the ousting of President Morales towards the end of 2019, a huge international polemic emerged as to whether the accurate description of these events was a coup d’État. This article concludes that, independently of personal inclinations, to opt for the coup d’État variant is misleading. The analyti...
Hirschl, Ran
Extensive urbanization and the consequent rise of megacities are among the most significant demographic phenomena of our time. Our constitutional institutions and constitutional imagination, however, have not even begun to catch up with the new reality. In this article, I address four dimensions of the great constitutional silence concerning the me...
Loy, Michael Philip Anthony
In this thesis I consider the political and economic interactions of a representative sample of seventh and sixth century B.C. state-level societies from the Aegean basin. This thesis is structured around three material based case studies, all of which use computational network-analytical techniques, and all of which consider closely issues of repr...
Müller, Tobias
Muslims and the Relational State: Contesting Security, Identity, Diversity Tobias Müller Interactions between Muslims and the state have become deeply contested political issues in 21st century Europe. States relate to Muslims in very different ways, in some instances as law-abiding citizens, tax-payers, and members of different religious communiti...
Shammas, Victor L.
Bourdieu’s anthropology of the state can be interpreted as a form of political theology, premised on a panentheistic conception of the state, which is transcendental to social reality while simultaneously being lodged in all social matter. The state is a Leviathan that imposes a horizon of meaning beyond which social agents rarely, if ever, move. T...
Aït-Aoudia, Myriam
In a theoretical and a methodological perspectives, my paper analyses the constitutional evolution of party pluralism, basing on the model of "militant democracy," (Loewenstein,1937), characterized paradoxically by legal restrictions on the access for the parties to elections grounded axiologically. My case study, Algeria, is not this liberal democ...
Martínez, José Ciro Eng, Brent
This article assesses the impact of the Assad regime's aerial bombardment campaign on a frequently neglected component of Syria's ongoing civil war: rebel governance. While analysis of the military and humanitarian ramifications of such attacks has been extensive, these perspectives fail to consider how the Assad regime's counter insurgency efforts...
Ozierański, Piotr King, Lawrence
Published in
The British journal of sociology
This article explores a key question in political sociology: Can post-communist policy-making be described with classical theories of the Western state or do we need a theory of the specificity of the post-communist state? In so doing, we consider Janine Wedel's clique theory, concerned with informal social actors and processes in post-communist tr...
Panitch, Leo Gindin, Sam Buée, Jean-Michel
States, Classes and Globalization: Beyond the Concept of a Global Ruling Class This paper addresses the alleged contradiction between the international space of accumulation and the national space of states. In particular, it challenges the argument that the internationalization of production directly establishes a transnational capitalist class (T...
Del Lucchese, Filippo
Published in
Contemporary Political Theory
This article considers Baruch Spinoza’s contribution to a theory of constituent power. Modern theories of constituent power generally agree on its paradoxical essence: a power that comes before the law and founds the law is at the same time a power that, once the juridical sphere is established, has to be obliterated by the law. Spinoza’s ontology ...