Social Research articles from September 1999

Social Research archives from September 1999

Citizens, Residents, and Aliens in a Changing World: Political Membership in the Global Era.
September 22, 1999... OUR contemporary condition is marked by the emergence of new forms of identity/difference politics around the globe. As globalization proceeds at a dizzying rate, as a material global civilization encompasses the earth from Hong Kong to Lima,...

Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?
September 22, 1999... As testified by the increasing success of the extreme right in several countries, western societies are witnessing a growing disaffection with democratic institutions. Such a disaffection may have serious consequences for the future of...

The Bourgeoisie and Democracy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
September 22, 1999... The historical role of the bourgeoisie in creating and maintaining political democracy has been much disputed in the social science literature. On the one hand, liberal social scientists and most Marxist analysts writing on European historical...

Russia's "Transition": Is Democracy Delayed Democracy Denied?
September 22, 1999... According to an old Soviet joke popular in the 1980s, central planning represented the longest route from capitalism to capitalism. A more recent variant making the rounds in Moscow after the great financial collapse of 1998 suggested that...

Agreeing to Differ: African Democracy, Its Obstacles and Prospects.
September 22, 1999... Decades ago, Rene Dumont's False Start in Africa (1988) lamented post-colonial Africa's failure to yield development. Today, a similar judgement might be passed on the first post-independence wave of democratization's failure to produce...

Historicizing Power and Responses to Power: Indirect Rule and Its Reform.
September 22, 1999... THE XVIIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Seoul organized a number of panels on "the State of the Discipline." The panels were intended as "a series of debates on eight major concepts of the discipline."...

Democracy in an Age of Cyber-Financial Globalization: Time, Space, and Embeddedness from an Asian Perspective.
September 22, 1999... THE Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 highlighted one salient feature of contemporary global capitalism, which I term "cyber-financial globalization." Over the past decade, the United States has had a strong ideological commitment, under both...

The Shifting Boundaries of Democratic Governments.
September 22, 1999... THE boundaries within which democratic governments make and enforce collective decisions are constantly shifting. Even over short periods, boundaries shift marginally. Over long periods, the changes are sometimes huge and highly consequential....

The Future of Democracy: Could It Be A Matter of Scale?
September 22, 1999... ONE element that may well determine the future of democracy is whether its institutions will prove themselves capable of adapting to changes in the scale of economic, social, and cultural relations. Recent decades have witnessed some dramatic...