Polity articles from December 2001

Polity archives from December 2001

Garden-variety liberals: discovering Eden in Levinas and Locke *.(Emmanuel Levinas)(John Locke)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Emmanuel Levinas never seems to have read John Locke--the father of British liberalism does not directly appear anywhere in Levinas's voluminous writings. (1) In itself this might look unremarkable. Levinas, a formidable ethical philosopher...

When good Lockeans go bad: common law courts, the classical liberal tradition, and to the modern administrative state *.(John Locke)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... In a sermon delivered in 1766, the Rev. William Patten cited John Locke as the authority for the proposition that the people are the proper judges of whether "the Prince or the Legislative betrays its trust." (1) Similarly, in a series of 1773...

Toleration and tyranny in Rawls's "Law of Peoples" *.(John Rawls)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... John Rawls's argument for toleration of some hierarchical regimes in a "law of peoples" has been criticized for working with an impoverished conception of human rights, requiring too little in the way of egalitarian distributions, and taking a...

John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women: a re-examination.
December 22, 2001... In The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill sets forth what has often been viewed as a progressive theory espousing equality for women in society. (1) Mill argues that social and legal conditions which restrict the liberty of women serve as...

The local roots of federal policy change: transportation in the 1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... An increasing number of political scientists have begun to peer into the murky waters of policy change, seeking to explain major shifts in legislative and administrative outcomes in the United States. In a pathbreaking work, for example,...

Self-reported legislator ideology versus interest group ratings. * (Research Note).(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Legislative scholars are regularly concerned with the ideologies of the legislators they study--ideology figures as both an independent and dependent variable, depending on the study. There are a host of possible ways to assess legislators'...

Sovereignty: reckoning what is real. (Review Essay).(Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy)(States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy)(Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Sovereigns die and Sovereignties; how all dies and is for a Time only; is a Time-phantasm, yet reckons itself real! --Thomas Carlyle (1) In the opening pages of Carlyle's incomparable study of the French Revolution, the death of Louis...