Polity articles from December 2002

Polity archives from December 2002

The other America: Tocqueville and Beaumont on race and slavery *.
December 22, 2002... Could the Union endure half slave and half free? Writing in 1835, a generation before the Emancipation Proclamation, Tocqueville and Beaumont posed that question. Tocqueville was an outspoken abolitionist and opponent of the nascent scientific...

Towards a denaturalized ecological politics *.
December 22, 2002... This myth of the human `condition' rests on a very old mystification, which always consists in placing Nature at the bottom of History... Progressive humanism, on the contrary, must always remember to reverse the terms of this very old...

Urban growth and the politics of air pollution: the establishment of California's automobile emission standards.
December 22, 2002... The state of California has been the nation's leader in the formulation and implementation of automobile emission standards. (1) California was the first jurisdiction to issue such standards in 1967. (2) Its automobile emission standards...

"Courage in the face of reality": Nietzsche's admiration for Thucydides *.
December 22, 2002... I. Introduction Courage in the face of reality ultimately distinguishes such natures as Thucydides and Plato: Plato is a coward in the face of reality--consequently he flees into the ideal; Thucydides has himself under...

Third-Party voting in gubernatorial elections: a study of Angus King of Maine and Jesse Ventura of Minnesota *.
December 22, 2002... I. Introduction When Ross Perot won nearly 20 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, many political observers saw in Perot the beginning of the end of the major parties' stranglehold on American politics. Perot won only 8...

The law and courts of enlightened localism.
December 22, 2002... In view of the moral diversity of cosmopolitan society, how can community-oriented politics be institutionalized? By way of two contrasting examples, the rights and autonomy of children, and the admission or exclusion of aliens from state or...

Grassroots Harvest: Assessing the "Post-Ideology" of Pragmatic Communitarianism *.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio. 2000. Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival Boulder: Westview Press. Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland. 2001. Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and...