Polity articles from April 2008

Polity archives from April 2008

American individualism and structural injustice: Tocqueville, gender, and race *.
April 1, 2008... American individualist ideology facilitates structural injustice. Through an analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville on individualism, gender domination, and white supremacy in the United States, this essay explains why. The peculiar social cognition...

The myth of the macho military *.
April 1, 2008... The public debate about the incorporation of women in the U.S. Armed Forces has primarily included feminist-inspired critics, who denounce the hostility toward women they perceive is promoted in the military's masculinist culture, and,...

Liberal market economy or composite regime? Institutional legacies and labor market policy in the United States *.
April 1, 2008... In comparative political economy the United States is denominated a "liberal market economy" characterized by market-based labor policy, but American political development studies suggest that national-level comparisons, which assume government...

Extremism in the defense of moderation: a response to my critics *.
April 1, 2008... Democratic governments draw and redraw their electoral districts to secure the electoral fortunes of individual representatives and party domination in the legislature. Although the practice was named the Gerry-mander in the early nineteenth...

Diversity, deliberation, and the concepts of constituency *.
April 1, 2008... Andrew Rehfeld's The Concept of Constituency (1) is a pathbreaking book that should attract widespread attention among scholars working in normative political theory, American politics, and comparative politics. While the concept of...

Rehfeld's hyper-Madisonianism *.(Andrew Rehfeld)
April 1, 2008... How should we think about constituency within representative democracy at the conceptual level, that is, at a higher level of abstraction than is available to us by looking at the particular constituency formations of any particular democratic...

The representational consequences of a random national constituency.
April 1, 2008... Andrew Rehfeld's The Concept of Constituency argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between constituents and politicians. This is a creative and original argument that deserves serious discussion. Before participating in that...

Voting, Lotteries, and justice *.(The Concept of Constituency)
April 1, 2008... In The Concept of Constituency, Andrew Rehfeld proposes that American citizens be assigned to congressional constituencies not according to where they live, but via random selection. (1) Randomly selected constituencies are, Rehfeld believes,...

Introduction: Reflections on Andrew Rehfeld's The Concept of Constituency *.
April 1, 2008... Andrew Rehfeld's book The Concept of Constituency (1) appeared in print almost forty years after Hanna Pitkin's masterpiece, The Concept of Representation. (2) Like Pitkin, Rehfeld wishes to shed new light on an important piece of conceptual...