Political Science
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What we call "economics" increasingly refers to a bunch of policy-focused quantitative social sciences: - Economics - Finance - Accounting - Marketing - Public policy - Health pol...
The French Revolution was a bloody disaster Mobs ruled, cities burned, and guillotines roared - how could anyone fight back against such horrors? Charles Dickens had the answer,...
Subhas Chandra Bose in his book "The Indian Struggle" made no bones about the nature of the Moplah Rebellions. Despite the unfair accusations laid on him of being a Muslim appeaser...
Sir Oswald Mosley and his blackshirt Suffragette first wave feminist Nazis https://t.co/3NdoSpM33G https://t.co/4aDrgWVO9U
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "WHY JUDICIAL REFORM IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL? The real question that has never been fully answered in Israel is what the role of the High Court shoul...
1. The modern parliamentary form of “democracy” is generally portrayed as a kind of neutral, empty vessel into which political content is poured. The truth is that “democracy” as w...
I think this is broadly correct. The key goal of Western ivory tower post-Soviet "decolonisation" projects is not to elevate the memory and agency of Qazaqs, Uzbeks, etc., but fir...
A couple DMs and a reply asking about this history of Ottoman betrayal of the Palestinians suggests people might want to know more - including why Erdogan's promise to "defend Pale...
Thread on Delimitation in #India Delimitation is the act or process of fixing the limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country to reflect the changes in populat...
The king was arrested in the French Revolution 1 man volunteered to be his lawyer With the king, he was beheaded too Decades later, the lawyer's grandson wrote a book on the DAR...
Father-Son Relationships That Shaped History Throughout history, father-son relationships have had profound impact, shaping the political, cultural, and religious landscapes of th...
NEW: NCERT introduces 'criticism of Indian secularism' in Political Science 📚. "In India, vote bank politics is also associated with minority appeasement. The parties disregard pr...
A short summary of today's @JMilei speech at @Stanford @HooverInst; very technical economics heavy speech covering econ history, growth, general vs. partial equilibrium; dangers of...
People who pretend politics is scientific have never led people. Politics is an wild animal to be tamed. You cannot domesticate it.
Intellectual movements (what currently exists here) influence political movements… they do not become political movements. The promotion of pure-thinkers into places of power is a...
🧵🧵🧵: The old Constitutional order exists only in its spirit. The fact is the Managerial Revolution that James Burnham (one of the founders of the American conservative movement)...
What is the liberal or progressive position on the finding of lower levels of social trust in multicultural societies? Like, do they think it’s not a real phenomenon? Do they rejec...
"Marx said that every class struggle is a political struggle. This means that, if the proletarians and capitalists are waging an economic struggle against each other today, they wi...
A very good essay by @sanchirai on a fascinating topic - who succeeded British India? "Before independence, stakeholders debated whether India and Pakistan should be regarded as t...
1/5 Techniques of Corruption Kautilya in Arthashastra (Book 2, Chpt 8), mentions 40 types of embezzlement techniques, which are employed by Govt officials to enrich themselves....
Western politics is obsessed with attaching ideological baggage to everything, which is why it's hard to advocate simple solutions without labelling it with some -ism and committin...
Recently, Electoral Bonds are Frequently seen in News From a #UPSC Prelims perspective, there isn't much to do for a PhD in this one area Just Remember these Simple Basics and f...
Rene Girard in his study of scapegoating mechanism explained the frustration/displacement motivation. When social systems approach crises, challenge of intra group resentments is m...
Americans bragging about lend-lease always strikes me as rather funny, because you're basically taking pride in the fact that FDR was a naïve idiot with a communist-compromised adm...
