Polity articles from December 2000

Polity archives from December 2000

Clinton's Race Initiative: Recasting The American Dilemma(*).
December 22, 2000... I. Introduction On July 14, 1997, in a speech to the graduating class of the University of California, San Diego, President Bill Clinton announced the creation of "One America in the 21st Century: The President's Initiative on Race."...

The Gender Gap in Presidential Evaluations: Assessments of Clinton's Performance In 1996.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... A president's reputation among the public is an important element in the balance of forces shaping election results and policy-making outcomes. Approval rates are a key diagnostic tool to predict an incumbent's chances of reelection as well as...

The Rhetorical Genesis of American Political Union(*).
December 22, 2000... Forging a political union among thirteen diverse colonies grouped in four distinct regions--making one out of many--was the "chief problem" facing the U.S. founding generation, and arguably its foremost achievement. But how to explain the...

Federalism, Individual Rights, and the Conditional Spending Conundrum(*).
December 22, 2000... As the U.S. budget has grown ever larger, and Federal spending initiatives gradually increased in number and scope, the conditional spending power, namely, the ability of Congress and the executive to attach conditions to the funds the...

The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism.
December 22, 2000... A political tradition long embraced by right-wing, national-socialist ideologues, especially in France, has paradoxically become highly relevant to current debates concerning one of the central challenges to modern democratic society and of a...

Authenticity, Justice, and Virtue in Taylor and Rousseau(*).
December 22, 2000... Can the demands of authenticity and the requirements of justice be reconciled? That is, can authenticity be embraced as a moral ideal without unacceptably relaxing the stringency of obligations to others or undermining the liberal ideal of...

Re-imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Daniele Archibugi, David Held, Martin Koehler, eds., Re-imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. The two volumes reviewed here explain why the question of transnational...

Democracy's Edges.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, Democracy's Edges. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. The two volumes reviewed here explain why the question of transnational democracy now occupies a central place on the agenda...