What is ‘Political Risk Insurance’
Political risk insurance provides financial protection to investors, financial institutions and businesses that face the possibility of losing money because of political events. Political risk insurance protects against the possibility…
Political Futures
DEFINITION of 'Political Futures' Political futures are contracts that speculate on the outcome of a political election or other political event. Like other prediction markets, political futures markets, by harnessing…
Foundations of Political Economy
Political economy is one of the oldest terms in the social sciences. It was once synonymous with the study of economics, while incorporating the study of the state, philosophical issues…
Introduction to the political business cycle
Below we will assume that we only take into account such political systems, which are based on democracy, where the authority comes from the public choice. Thus, theory of the…
Basic concepts of politics
Political theory is a science that deals with politics. Long time ago it was called political philosophy, because (similarly to economics) it was done by philosophers. It separated from other social…
Definitions of politics
As many words in contemporary languages, the term “politics” stems from ancient Greek. This word has its origins in the word politikos, which means “of, for, or relating to citizens”.…
Why does politics exist? The origins of politics
Politics is usually associated with the state. Plato in ancient Greece was the first philosopher who first started to treat politics as a science. For him, the most important concepts were…
Political economy and global capitalism
The intellectual impetus for this volume is the abiding interest of its editors in promoting in-depth, cutting-edge analysis of the current global political economy in order to advance a political …
A Sketch Of The History Of Political Economy
Systematic study for an understanding of the laws of political economy is to be found no farther back than the sixteenth century. The history of political economy is not the…
Post-Hegemonic Theories
In the 1970s and 1980s, when hegemonic stability theory was at its peak, many (but certainly not all) IPE scholars took for granted that states were necessarily the key players…
