Bulletin n. 1/2017
June 2017
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Luis Gonzalo Díez Alvarez
    James Madison: el desafío de la historia y la naturaleza humana para el político práctico
    in Revista de Estudios Políticos , Número 174 ,  2016 ,  47-76
    This article has two objectives: first, to clarify the meaning of Madison’s concept of “ordinary politician” as opposed to the rationalist delusions of a “philosophical legislator”; and second, to analyze the moral and historical meaning of his political thought. The paper focuses on Madison the person, who not only wrote some of the fundamental articles of The Federalist, but also as someone who participated with Jefferson in a political and media campaign against Treasury Secretary Hamilton’s idea of government and society. This anti-Hamilton Madison became aware that the fear of a majority faction — dominant in The Federalist — should be combined with distrust of an elitist tyranny based on a shadowy alliance between political and economic powers.
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