Polity articles from December 1999

Polity archives from December 1999

Anti-Disciplinary Protest. Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Julie Stephens, Anti-Disciplinary Protest. Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in American politics and...

As the World Turns: Ontology and Politics in Judith Butler(*).
December 22, 1999... A guiding imperative of Judith Butler's thought is the commitment to "a problematizing suspension of the ontological." Drawing upon the momentum of both feminist and poststructuralist thought, she understands her task to be an "interrogation...

Citizens of the Market: The Un-Political Theory of the New Right(*).
December 22, 1999... I. Introduction The New Right political theorists' brand of liberal theory seems to have captured a hegemonic position in the American public political discourse, where the language of individual choice and the logic of "the market"...

Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy: A New Institutionalist Perspective(*).
December 22, 1999... I. Introduction Discussions of welfare policy in the United States usually portray business as the force that derails labor's good fight or disrupts government bureaucrats' plans. Yet employers have periodically shown interest in...

A Political Regimes Approach to the Analysis of Legal Decisions.
December 22, 1999... The public law field is in the midst of the most profound debate over research paradigms since the 1950s when behavioralism eclipsed traditional legal institutional scholarship. Currently, the behavioralist old guard finds itself increasingly...

Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton(*).
December 22, 1999... I. Introduction A substantial literature has developed documenting the various cross-pressures faced by members of the United States Congress. While most members are drawn to the political arena by their own ideological values and...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.(Review)
December 22, 1999... G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating studies of the influence of [the justices] we shall not have...

The World of Benjamin N. Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Richard Polenberg, The World of Benjamin N. Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating studies of the influence of [the...

The Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: The Law & Politics of "Libertarian Dignity".(Review)
December 22, 1999... David E. Marion, The Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: The Law & Politics of "Libertarian Dignity." Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating studies of the...

New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Jeffrey D. Hockett, New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating...

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Nancy Maveety, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating studies of the influence of [the justices] we shall not...

A Tale of Two Utopias. The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Paul Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias. The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in American politics and...

The Spirit Of the Sixties. The Making of Postwar Radicalism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... James J. Farrell, The Spirit Of the Sixties. The Making of Postwar Radicalism. New York: Routledge, 1997. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in American politics and culture. The...

The Conquest of Cool. Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool. Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in...

The Twilight of Common Dreams. Why America Is Wracked By Culture Wars.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams. Why America Is Wracked By Culture Wars. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in American politics and...

The Sixties. Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c.1974.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Arthur Marwick, The Sixties. Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c.1974. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing...

The Politics of Authenticity. Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity, Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Interpretations of the sixties reflect the deep differences and antagonisms existing today in...