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He has been based in the politics department at the university of leicester for most of his career, and has been a professor in the department since 2006. A radical green political theory routledge innovations in. By exposing the interplay between ideas and ideologies, it shows why political opponents often speak at crosspurposes and. This new book shows that greens deserve to be taken more seriously than that. Duvergers law is a political theory that says democracies with singlemember legislative districts and winnertakeall voting tend. This book demolishes what is left of the formerly ascendant idea that sound political theory and constitutional. The list has a strong focus on political theory, as you might expect, and therefore includes mostly books on politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of the law by the.
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