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The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." [1] Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc., [2] the foundation is the administrator and sponsor of the National Book Awards, a set of literary awards inaugurated in 1936 and continuous from 1950.
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books which provide critical overviews of the state of political science.Each volume focuses on a particular political science topic, with volumes on Political Methodology, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics ...
The Directive Principles of State Policy of India are the guidelines to be followed by the government of India for the governance of the country. They are not enforceable by any court, but the principles laid down there are considered "Fundamental" in the governance of the country, which makes it the duty of the State [1] to apply these principles in making laws to establish a just society in ...
[10] In this sense, positive liberty is the adherence to a set of rules agreed upon by all parties involved, all of whom must agree to any alterations to the rules. Therefore, positive liberty is a contractarian philosophy. [citation needed] Isaiah Berlin opposed any suggestion that paternalism and positive liberty could be equivalent. [11]
Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, [1] but it has also played a major part in political science, within which a strong focus has historically been placed on both the history of political thought and contemporary political theory (from normative political theory to various critical approaches).
Self-determination [1] refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law , binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the ...
A leftist critique of identity politics, such as that of Nancy Fraser, [10] argues that political mobilization based on identitarian affirmation leads to surface redistribution—that is, a redistribution within existing structures and relations of production that does not challenge the status quo. Instead, Fraser argued, identitarian ...
[10] In Latin, natio represents the children of the same birth and also a human group of same origin. [11] By Cicero, natio is used for "people". [12] Black's Law Dictionary defines a nation as follows: nation, n. (14c) 1. A large group of people having a common origin, language, tradition, and usage constitutes a political entity.