La obra de Franz Leopold Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Jügen Habermas y Claus Offe guarda una línea de continuidad entre sí. De forma individual y en su respectivo ámbito de competencia, la obra de estos autores ha reflejado las transformaciones históricas sufridas por el Estado capitalista a lo largo del presente siglo y el sucesivo desvelamiento de las caras del moderno Leviatán.
This volume brings together notions of political liberty that arose in the English, Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world, commencing with their inception in the colonial period, following with the independence of the Americas and the subsequent efforts to build constitutional order.
New forms of religious diversity have emerged that demand specific policies from the state, putting pressure on the established practices of religious governance. European societies have been a testing ground for many of these changes, but for decades Canada has been pioneering the management of diversity, thus offering interesting similarities and contrasts with the former. This book deals with the diverging routes of political secularization...
