...This chapter focuses on Britain’s traditional constitution. Caius Martius, the protagonist of Coriolanus, refused to agree to the Roman plebeians’ increasingly vociferous political demands. There were two points pointed out by Martius, first is that Rome is to continue to have a single governing...

... are political demands—specifically, demands for emancipation, for an end to domination and oppression. As such they are highly partisan or ideological in character—a fact which is central to understanding the politics of contestation that frequently accompanies human rights and to resolving several important...

... of the EU Commission. Explicating the empirical puzzle—the office’s peculiar combination of strong political demands, weak institutional powers, and potential for strong political leadership—it poses the operational research question: What makes political leadership in supranational governance successful...

...This chapter explores the potential for socioeconomic protests to combine with more radical political demands. It studies the protest by Russia's truck drivers, whose actions demonstrate how simple economic concerns can unite otherwise isolated individuals and quickly lead to demands for political...

...There is a third reason why ABMS’ black male supporters proclaim their experience of oppression in ways that help and hinder a politics of resistance. Simply put, their experiential claims rest on harmful political assumptions and facilitate liberatory political demands. After noting feminist...

... states have also pressed feminists to raise political demands with an eye to their multicultural and transnational significance. feminism gender women Phillips A Zerilli L Brennan T Clarke L M G Elshtain J B Figes E Jonasdottir A G Jones K B Lange L Laqueur T Mahowald M Okin S M Pateman C...