Polity articles from January 2006

Polity archives from January 2006

Editor's note.
January 1, 2006... This issue marks a major turning point for Polity. After more than 35 years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the journal has migrated to the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I have assumed the editorship from...

Polity forum: commentaries on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition.(Polity Forum)
January 1, 2006... Introduction This Polity Forum originated in a panel organized by Antonio Y Vazquez-Arroyo for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in the belief that Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition (2003)...

Re-cognizing recognition: a commentary on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In an economy which is defined by the refusal to recognize the 'objective' truth of 'economic' practices... even 'economic' capital cannot act unless it succeeds in being recognized through a conversion that can render unrecognizable the true...

Sovereignty, identity, and insecurity: a commentary on Patchen Markells's Bound by Recognition *.
January 1, 2006... Patchen Markell has written a fine book--rigorous, meticulous, perceptive--with an especially elegant interplay between political theory and historical illustration in his chapter on nineteenth-century Jewish emancipation. Markell challenges...

Bound by competing agendas: a comment on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Patchen Markell's book, Bound by Recognition (1) is an astute analysis of the shortcomings of the literature on recognition, in particular of the "glance of affirmation" which appears to freeze the subject of recognition forever into a statue...

Ontology, recognition, and politics: a reply *.
January 1, 2006... I am delighted and honored that Bound by Recognition has provoked these three insightful responses. I will not be able, in the space of this reply, to do justice to the full range of comments that Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo, Joan Cocks, and Falguni...

Polity forum: reflections on the discipline.(Three Critiques of Trends in Political Science)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Introduction: Three Critiques of Trends in Political Science This forum consists of three independently submitted articles that consider the state of our discipline today Each one asks what kind of "science" should be practiced by scholars...

Dividing the domain of political science: on the fetishism of subfields *.(Three Critiques of Trends in Political Science)
January 1, 2006... "Go to, let us centrifugate!" Anonymous graduate student at The John Hopkins University in 1882. (1) The Unruly Science of Rule On reviewing the history of American political science, one might well conclude that the only concern...

Can political science emulate the natural sciences? The problem of self-disconfirming analysis *.
January 1, 2006... Introduction American political science has long aspired to emulate both the objective research methods of the natural sciences and their practical successes in controlling their objects of study. The profession's mainstream aspires to...

A normative turn in political science? *.
January 1, 2006... Surely, in a world which stands upon the threshold of the chemistry of the atom, which is only beginning to fathom the mystery of interstellar space, in this poor world of ours which, however justifiably proud of its science, has created so...

Multiculturalism, liberalism, and philosophy *.(Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism)(Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange)(Identity in Democracy)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Brian Barry. Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth. Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange. New York:...