Polity articles from January 2004

Polity archives from January 2004

Regionalism and globalization: post-nation or extended nation? *.
January 1, 2004... Historically, the late of modern democratic practice and the nation-state have been intimately related. In recent years, however, a large literature surrounding the topic of 'globalization' has called this relationship into question. Whether...

Rorty's new school of American pride: the constellation of contestation and consensus *.
January 1, 2004... Introduction Rogers Smith has written that "liberalism suffers from a profound inability to provide unassailable assurances of people's worth." (1) If we agree that liberalism needs to be able to provide such assurances--which seems...

Burke on democracy as the death of Western civilization *.
January 1, 2004... These are choice speculations, with which the Author [Lord Auckland] amuses himself, and tries to divert us, in the blackest hours of the dismay, defeat and calamity of all civilized nations. They have but one fault, that they are directly...

Montesquieu's complex natural right and moderate liberalism: the roots of American moderation *.
January 1, 2004... Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des Lois (1748) engaged a variety of Anglo-American scholars in the twentieth century drawn to its views on human nature, constitutional politics, and liberalism, and a healthy interest continues among scholars...

A new migration of political forces: party decline and presidential leadership in late Nineteenth-Century America.
January 1, 2004... This article focuses on the decline of party and the concomitant visibility of candidates and presidents in post-Civil War America. Drawing on a novel database, I argue that in the post-war nineteenth century political parties began losing...

Disaggregating and reexamining issue ownership and voter choice *.
January 1, 2004... The theory of issue ownership maintains that candidates use campaigns to strategically emphasize issues on which their parties are perceived as more competent; that, in essence, issue agendas have partisan effects on election outcomes. (1) The...

What's in a name: the power of fusion politics in a local election.
January 1, 2004... I. Introduction New York State has a long history of strong third parties. The ability of minor parties to survive in the state comes from the practice of cross-endorsements, known as "fusion" politics. State election law allows both...

Who or What Are We? The Identity Crisis in Feminist Politics *.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Sonia Kruks, Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Mary G. Dietz, Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2002. Seyla...