https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IJCPCSCG/issue/feed The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies 2016-06-28T12:01:23+00:00 Asun Lopez-Varela cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com Open Journal Systems <div id="i-scholarabout">Common Ground's Humanities journals provide a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge which builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future. The humanities are a domain of learning, reflection and action, and a place of dialogue between and across epistemologies, perspectives and content areas. It is in these unsettling places that the humanities might be able to unburden modern knowledge systems of their restrictive narrowness.</div> https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IJCPCSCG/article/view/107862 Community beyond Identity: Rethinking Radical Politics with Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito 2016-06-28T12:01:23+00:00 Marita Vyrgioti The key theme of this paper is to rethink of the concept of community, as inspired by three specific works: "The Inoperative Community" by Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Coming Community" by Giorgio Agamben, and "Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community" by Roberto Esposito. These three diverse procedures of deconstructing community do not suggest a political program or a master discourse about 'how a community should be'. On the contrary, they pose a series of questions which challenge the exigency of identity, the concept of the political as antagonism, and the state apparatus. What is revealed through these three projects is the affirmation of another possible way of being-in-common without being-common. Challenging the certainties of emancipatory projects, such as Marxism and Anarchism, these deconstructions lean towards a proposal of non-identity, non-utopian politics- values which are, in a way, embodied in the recent Occupy movements across the world and especially in the Gezi community, in Turkey, June 2013. https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IJCPCSCG/article/view/107863 War, Economy, Congress, and Presidents’ Usage of Executive Orders 2016-06-28T12:01:23+00:00 Dukhong Kim This study examines the elements that influence presidents' use of executive orders. Particularly, it is interested in the conditions under which presidents exercise their unitary power. Theories of presidential leadership propose three prominent factors to explain these conditions: institutional conditions, political demands, and personal resources. Previous studies show that presidents issue more executive orders during war and economic hardship than at other times. But we do not know how these external conditions will shape the relationship between presidential use of unitary power and the composition of Congress. With these theories we cannot answer this question, because they tackle the sources of presidential power from disparate perspectives. As an alternative, I propose an integrative theory which emphasizes the interaction between external conditions and institutional actors. This study tests the theory by using important executive orders (1936-2008). The findings show that international and domestic crises (i.e., war and economic hardship) provide presidents with more opportunities to issue executive orders with the help of Congress than in situations lacking a crisis.