Polity articles from January 2005

Polity archives from January 2005

Editor's note.
January 1, 2005... This issue of Policy the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, marks the start of a new era for the journal; one that it is hoped will bring new readers to it. Since its inception in 1968, Polity has been a hospitable site for...

Fashion and democratic relationships *.
January 1, 2005... Introduction: Central Arguments and Definitions What does fashion have to do with politics? Many people take fashion to be private and trivial, while politics is public and important, yet from time to time fashion's political importance is...

American kingship? Monarchical origins of modern presidentialism *.
January 1, 2005... Introduction Claims by political leaders to possess charisma, famously defined by Max Weber as "supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities," are ubiquitous. (1) In modern dictatorships, rulers often...

Agonism, deliberation, and the politics of abortion *.
January 1, 2005... Introduction The conflict over the legal status of abortion in the United States has provided one of the most challenging case studies for proponents of various forms of democratic theory, but especially for those who endorse deliberative...

Conservative political theology and the freedom of religion: the recent work of Robert Kraynak and David Novak.(Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World)(Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Introduction The Catholic political scientist Robert Kraynak and the rabbi and Jewish scholar David Novak fear and believe many of the same things. Both men are very much alarmed by what they perceive to be the dangers inherent in modern...

Civil rights success and the politics of racial violence *.
January 1, 2005... Introduction Perhaps no social movement changed American racial politics and elevated the national commitment to democracy more than the civil rights movement. To explain the stunning triumphs of the movement over the defenders of Jim Crow...

The tolerant Leviathan: Hobbes and the paradox of liberalism.
January 1, 2005... Introduction According to many contemporary liberals, toleration has become liberalism's defining characteristic, or most fundamental principle. Although there are obvious grounds for this supposition, it brings with it certain paradoxes,...

Rescaling urban politics: structure and agency in the global era *.
January 1, 2005... Douglas W. Rae. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven. Yale University Press, 2003. H. V Savitch and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe....