Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagin

Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the publ

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from

In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. The overriding appeal of th