Political Theory

Like the United States, Australia has a libertarian political party.

In a long editorial entitled “Let the People See,” which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1852, Horace Greeley, the great e

A process that drew attention at the turn of the century, and even earlier, was the movement from a bourgeois liberal society into a mass-democrati

Prior to World War I, liberals held two guiding principles: distrust of Big Business and opposition to war.

It is the task of this paper to describe what can happen to “a good cause” when it is “ineptly defended,” and to address the problem of the relatio

The status of children in the societal scheme proposed by John Rawls is determined by what would be the decision of persons in the original positio

A generation after his death in 1950, Harold Laski, the eminent political scientist, socialist, and British Labour Party leader, is almost forgotte

Joseph R. Stromberg recounts the life of John Taylor as well as his political contributions.

Volume 6, Number 1 (1982)

The influence of moral philosophy on the rise of laissez faire is a topic that several scholars have examined.

Contained in the legal systems of almost all modern liberal democratic states is the provision for extraordinary executive power to be exercised in