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Internal improvements is the term used historically in the United States for public works from the end of the American Revolution through much of the 19th century, mainly for the creation of a transportation infrastructure: roads, turnpikes, canals, harbors and navigation improvements. [1]
Goodrich, Carter. "National Planning of Internal Improvements," Political Science Quarterly, 63 (1948), 16–44. in JSTOR; John Lauritz Larson. Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (2001) Lively, Robert A.
David Mitrany (1888–1975) was a Romanian-born, [1] naturalized British scholar, historian and political theorist. The richest source of information concerning Mitrany’s life and intellectual activity are the memoirs he published in 1975 in The Functional Theory of Politics .
Initially proposed as an open-ended financing mechanism for improvements, the bill by the time of its passage, required for each state to benefit equally from the new fund and to approve all federal activities within its borders. Those compromises weakened the bill and underscore how difficult it was to effect improvements broadly and singly.
Margaret Moore is a Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar. She is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston. [1]Moore has written on territorial and global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and place-related interests.
Positive political theory (PPT), explanatory political theory, or formal theory is the study of politics using formal methods such as social choice theory, game theory, and statistical analysis. In particular, social choice theoretic methods are often used to describe and (axiomatically) analyze the performance of rules or institutions.
A History of Political Theory is a book by George Holland Sabine on the history of political thought from Ancient Greece to fascism and Nazism in the 1930s. First published in 1937, [ 1 ] it propounds a hypothesis that theories of politics are themselves a part of politics. [ 2 ]
Democrats Return to Power: Politics and Policy in the Clinton Era(with Benjamim Ginsburg)(New York, 1994) The End of the Republican Era (1995) "American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory" (1964), World Politics 16(4):677–715. In this journal article, which reviews a book by Raymond A. Bauer, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and ...