Bøger af Harold Laski

Harold J. Laski's An Introduction to Politics outlines the functions of the State institutions, while highlighting the problems between the State and society and politics in general.Without entering into any technicalities, the author discusses various topics, including the necessity of a government; the relationship between State and society; rights of an individual and the power of the State; liberty and equality; the nature of nationalism and law as a source of authority.This book was written with the purpose to make a layman reader understand what functions are prerequisite for a democracy to function and how an individual can help in the effective running of a democracy.

For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the transmission of scholarly knowledge

This timeless classic by Harold J. Laski explains the nature of the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by its history. The State in Theory and Practice is a work that grows in significance, rather than dwindles over time. This is because, as Sidney A

The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic

Reveals Laski's growing realization that the road to socialism might be more difficult than what he had believed when he wrote his pluralist works. This book reflects the mind of a thinker who was not content to write exclusively as an academic or a political activist.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union few people thought of Marxism, at least in its classical formulation by Laski in the 1930s, as a political alternative. This work explains the nature of the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by its history.

For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the transmission of scholarly knowledge