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Political representation

This work aims to reintroduce history into political theory. Contemporary political philosophy - liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism - disregards history as irrelevant to the nature of politics and to what constitutes a political problem.
Print Book, English, 2002
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2002
History
266 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804739818, 9780804739825, 0804739811, 080473982X
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