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Free Download Stuart P. Green, "Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory "
English | ISBN: 0197507484 | 2020 | 408 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1160 KB + 26 MB
How should a liberal system of criminal law adequately protect individuals in their right not to be subjected to sexual contact against their will, while also safeguarding their right to engage in (private consensual) sexual conduct in which they do wish to participate? Criminalizing Sex develops a framework for harmonizing these goals in the context of a wide range of nonconsensual, consensual, and aconsensual sexual offenses (hence, the "unified" nature of the theory) – including rape and sexual assault in a variety of forms, sexual harassment, voyeurism, indecent exposure, incest, sadomasochistic assault, prostitution, bestiality, and necrophilia. Taking on a fascinating collection of moral and legal puzzles, arising out of real-world cases of alleged sexual misconduct, the book situates the theory of sexual offenses in the current cultural context – including the #MeToo movement and the ongoing revision of the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code. It is sure to spark conversations, and potentially change the way we think about some of the most contentious legal, moral, and social issues of the day.

Free Download Alexei Anisin, "Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the Covid-19 Pandemic "
English | ISBN: 3111081338 | 2023 | 138 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is increasingly being classified as marked by democratic erosion, backsliding, or populism, Through a multi-methodological analysis of datasets covering different characteristics of pandemic responses in 54 liberal democratic states, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic draws attention to a different set of processes and dynamics. By adopting the theoretical frameworks of authoritarian liberalism and surveillance capitalism, a new explanation of political, economic, and social outcomes that arose over the course of the pandemic is provided in a critical cross-national inquiry. Findings turn attention to a previously neglected set of factors that were behind the emergence of widespread illiberal practices. Many liberal democracies experienced a metamorphosis that arose out of the unfettered implementation of authoritarian liberal economic policy making which merged with previously embedded structures of surveillance capitalism.

Free Download Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice: Rescuing Ronald Dworkin’s Legacy by Lesley A. Jacobs , Matthew McManus
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 140 Pages | ISBN : 3031453468 | 2.9 MB
This book covers how Liberal institutions – constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights – around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions. These post-liberal institutions are founded on the core conviction that the actions of liberal institutions including the United States Supreme Court are patently unjust. This volume makes the case against post-liberal courts and justice by reconnecting to the principles of moral equality and dignified freedom for all. The intention is to show how there is great untapped potential in the work of Ronald Dworkin’s work to demonstrate that it can help progressive liberals think through the great issues of the day and respond to the contemporary criticisms of the political right. The core themes are concretely illustrated by focusing on some of the most controversial recent post-liberal decisions of the Supreme Court, ranging from election funding to abortion to race-sensitive affirmative action, to economic inequality in an age of increasingly unequal opportunities.

Free Download Ian Hunt, "Liberal Socialism: An Alternative Social Ideal Grounded in Rawls and Marx"
English | ISBN: 1498506534 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 312 KB
Should we be looking for alternatives to the western world’s status quo of neo-liberal capitalism? Should we be seeking a new form of freedom for a more just and better social world? Drawing on Rawls’s theory of justice and Marx’s critique of capitalism, this book answers those questions in a resounding affirmative. Some think that a just society for Rawls cannot promote a better social world unless it is acceptable to all but, this wrongly treats Rawls as a supporter of minimal government. Setting this aside, the book argues that the ideas of justice behind political and media pundit support of neo-liberal capitalism are faulty, and should be replaced with a Rawlsian idea of justice. Resistance to the idea that an acceptable theory of justice can say that capitalism is unjust is overcome by showing that capitalism, as Marx sees it, must be unjust on Rawls’s theory of justice because it breaches the difference principle and involves exploitation of employees. Reasons are then given for a new society that will be just under a modified Rawlsian idea of justice and will promote the Marxian good of free social cooperation on projects pursued independently of demands of nature. What a free life lived in this new society means is spelled out and shown to be acceptable. This book concludes by asking whether society can set out on a path to a better social world.

Free Download Majia Nadesan, "Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in "
English | ISBN: 073919495X | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. These human-engineered crises threaten sustainability through resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the growth of geo-political conflicts. Yet, the corporations responsible have returned to profitability by externalizing risks to communities and governments. In response to this pattern of crisis management, Nadesan argues that contemporary financial and energy complexes pose significant threats to liberal democracy and ecological sustainability. This book will be of interest to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, and economics.

Free Download Mark Wild, "Renewal: Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II "
English | ISBN: 022660523X | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries’ complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home.

Free Download Alan Colmes, "Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0060562978, 0060734337 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.5 mb
As one of the foremost liberal voices in television and talk radio today, Alan Colmes has long been braving the wilds of controversial issues and conservative slander. Already a talk radio star and the only liberal to be heard nationally, Colmes has also taken the television world by storm on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, and he is famous for his hard-hitting stance on the challenges that Americans face today.

Free Download Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics edited by Robert Jervis, Joshua Rovner, Stacie Goddard, Diane N. Labrosse
English | July 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0231205988, 0231205996 | True PDF | 544 pages | 3.95 MB
The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order―the system of institutions and norms established after World War II―was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international order?

Free Download The Truth of Liberal Economy: Jacques Rueff and John Maynard Keynes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819923735 | 228 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.3 MB
This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). The former French bureaucrat and academician championed classical economics; the latter British economist founded macro-economics criticizing the classical school. Depending upon archival sources, including personal correspondences between the above two figures, the book describes furious debates between them and surrounding them.

Free Download Ranabir Samaddar, "Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0367177218, 1138219592 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.1 mb
Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a post-colonial democracy.