Polity articles from April 2003

Polity archives from April 2003

From a doctor's to a judge's gaze: epistemic communities and the history of disability rights policy in the workplace.
April 1, 2003... For over a decade, comparativists have taken an "ideational turn" as they explore how ideas affect public policy formation. The emphasis on ideas as opposed to interests and institutions has had surprisingly little influence on studies of...

Liberalism's identity problem *.
April 1, 2003... Over the past three decades, theorists of identity politics have attacked liberalism's most settled assumptions concerning the philosophical implications of social diversity, the political relevance of personal identity and communal membership,...

"Indirect Legislation": Bentham's liberal government.
April 1, 2003... "I wake up every morning, jump in the shower, look down at the symbol, and that pumps me up for the day. It's to remind me every day what I have to do, which is, 'Just Do It.'" --Twenty-four-year-old Internet entrepreneur...

The pardon power and the American state constitutional tradition *.
April 1, 2003... The presidential exercise of the pardon power has sparked periodic controversy throughout American history. During the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, controversies erupted primarily in response to amnesties that were...

Bridging the lawmaking process: organized interests, court-congress interaction, and church-state relations.
April 1, 2003... Most scholarly work on the federal courts and Congress focuses on the individual institution: public law scholars examine judicial decision-making and its effects, while their counterparts in legislative studies focus on how policy is proposed,...

Militias and segregationists: the politics of low turnout elections in the United States.
April 1, 2003... The April 1995 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City engendered a great deal of media attention for militant opponents of gun control and especially for the citizens' militias that had sprung up around the United States in the...

Platonic entanglements.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Patrick J. Deneen, The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Dana Villa, Socratic Citizenship. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. S. Sara Monoson, Plato's...