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Introduction In a brief autobiographical sketch in a 1990 volume of collected writings, T.H. Rigby described his early intellectual influences.1 As an undergraduate and Masters’s student at the University of Melbourne immediately after the end of World War Two he was intellectually most stimulated by Karl Marx and Max Weber …

We all have felt the temptation to sneak into someone’s Instagram at some point without their knowledge. It’s only normal to want to know what someone is up to, and what better way to gain insights into someone’s personal life than get into their Instagram? A lot of parties show interest in …

Introduction The very idea of an Encyclopedia of Government and Politics raises important questions about the relationship between knowledge and politics. Although the concept originates from the Greek egkuklios paideia or general education, the notion of an encyclopedia in contemporary parlance invokes a far more ambitious and dangerous project. The …

Introduction The pluralist conception of politics incorporates a number of modernist assumptions about the appropriate relation of the individual to the state. Pervaded by scepticism concerning the power of human reason to operate in the realm of values and the concomitant subjectivist assumption that, in the absence of absolute values, …