Polity articles from April 2004

Polity archives from April 2004

"Dreaded and dared": courage as a virtue. *.
April 1, 2004... In 1964, three American civil rights workers--James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner--disappeared and were found weeks later buried in an earthen dam. They were called courageous after their deaths. My family were friends of the...

Regulating torture in a democracy: death indignity in Israel.
April 1, 2004... Introduction In his critical analysis of torture, Henry Shue explains how ill-treatment is permissible only when it is the least harmful means available to secure a supremely important moral goal. Adding that this is nearly never the case,...

Importing liberalism: Brown v. Board of Education in the Israeli context. *.
April 1, 2004... On March 8, 2000, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision hailed at the time as Israel's Brown v. Board of Education. Israeli Arabs, the ruling proclaimed, could no longer be discriminated against in the provision of state lands....

Christopher Lasch and the possibilities of chastened liberalism.
April 1, 2004... I appreciate what is valuable in the liberal tradition, which seemed to me at one time to offer the best hope of a decent kind of politics, and for that very reason liberalism strikes me as more worthy of engagement and...

Lost or obscured? How V. I. Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hannah Arendt misunderstood the council movement.
April 1, 2004... The council movement arose in the disorder and suffering that marked the end of World War I to wrestle with the discredited remnants of pre-war states, crippled armies, and an industrial order that had become more dictatorial as production was...

Presidential politicization and centralization across the modern-traditional divide. *.
April 1, 2004... Introduction The concept of the "modern presidency" is the anchoring paradigm of presidential studies today. In Presidential Power, Richard Neustadt first described the attributes of the modern presidency, and Fred Greenstein later...

Leaders, followers, and outsiders: task and social leadership on the Canadian Supreme Court in the early 'nineties. *.
April 1, 2004... Few judicial scholars would quibble with the contention that the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 invited a constitutional revolution with the potential for transforming the political, legal, and social fabric of...

Political theory and the racial order.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lawrie Balfour, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Michael C. Dawson, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political...