{"product_id":"9783031611704","title":"What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition","description":"\u003ch3\u003eContributions to Political Science\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eWhat Kind of Government?\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eVlasta Jalušič | Wolfgang Heuer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ History \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to develop an understanding of the changes in contemporary forms of government and explores the nature and structure of the various corrupt, undemocratic, oppressive, and abusive governments that continue to emerge around the globe. While proceeding from Hannah Arendt’s well-known thesis of the “break in (political) tradition” that occurred with the totalitarianisms of the 20th century, it addresses some main conceptual frameworks and a number of key trends in existing forms of government and their relations to historical forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe primary intended audience includes educators, scholars, and researchers with an interest in contemporary democracy and anti-democratic movements, government, questions of power, political theory \/ philosophy, and conceptual history, as well as and students enrolled in various disciplines of the social sciences. Moreover, it will be of interest to Arendt scholars and those researching the contemporary challenges to democracy and constitutional rule worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChapters 1, 4, 6 and 13 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Vlasta Jalušič\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior researcher, one of the founders of the Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, and a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Wolfgang Heuer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), and managing editor of “HannahArendt.net, Journal for Political Thinking”.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 October 2024\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031611704\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e216\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51218949341324,"sku":"9783031611704","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031611704.jpg?v=1783022220","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031611704","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}