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What roles do the Speaker, floor leaders, and whips play in the House? The House leadership consists of the Speaker, floor leaders, and whips. Committee chairs also are part of the House leadership, and they will be discussed in Section 12.6 “Committees”, which is about committees.
Nov 16, 2023 · Standard 4.7 addresses political leadership and the qualities that people seek in those they choose for leadership roles in democratic systems of government. Leadership involves multiple skills and talents.
- Normative Inquiry as The Basis of Political Theory
- The Ancients in The West: Plato and Aristotle
- The Contract Thinkers
- Marx v. Mill
- Rawls and The Original Position
- Conclusion
In philosophy, norms are statements that seek the practical effect of acting, believing, or feeling a certain way. Norm statements are prescriptions of what the world ought to be, not descriptions of what the world is. Orders, commands, permissions, and prohibitions are are examples of norm sentences—they are not descriptively true or false since t...
Let’s begin with an observation many, if not most of us, would agree with: the best society is a just, fair, and happy society. Simple enough on the surface of things, but this begs a series of questions into the nature of these characteristics. What is justice? This is the central question in Plato’s foundational work of political philosophy, The ...
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are often referred to as the contract thinkers because all three are focused on what kind of social contract should exist between a state and the citizens of that state. Additionally, in seeking to determine this relationship, these contract thinkers develop fundamental principles of human experi...
A comparative analysis of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill can clarify the distinctive line that exists between socialism and liberalism (for more on these ideologies, see Chapter Two). Marx and Mill have similar starting points: both assert that real freedom can only emerge when we achieve the fullest development of our capacities as individuals and...
John Rawls’ 1971 publication of “A Theory of Justice” is a useful bookend to this chapter for it returns us to the age-old question of “what is justice?” By taking us to a psychological state of nature, Rawls suggests he has an answer to what justice is, an answer that we will universally arrive at and unanimously affirm. Before delving into the de...
This chapter gives us a basic overview of the sub-discipline of political theory by situating it within normative inquiry. This makes political theory unique among the sub-disciplines which have a greater emphasis on “scientific” social and political inquiry. We also covered some prominent insights and questions from a few of the preeminent thinker...
- Jay Steinmetz
- 2019
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Dec 9, 2022 · public policy, political science, and psy chology. The current paper attempts to advance a conceptual framework for political. leadership as an area of study which is made up of theory, practice ...
May 11, 2020 · The problem with which this article is concerned is thus under which conditions we may reasonably trust a speaker. I discuss this problem from the perspective of political theory, but will connect my argument to empirical research on how people come to trust political leaders’ sincerity and truthfulness toward the end of the article.
- Markus Holdo
- 2020
May 1, 2014 · It showcases both the normative and empirical traditions in political leadership studies, and juxtaposes behavioural, institutional, and interpretive approaches. It covers formal, office-based as well as informal, emergent political leadership, and in both democratic and undemocratic polities.
Divergent from most approaches to leadership, we recognize this complexity and view leadership as a political process in which leaders and followers engage in social influence behavior to develop shared meaning, drive change, and improve effectiveness.
