Polity articles from January 2007

Polity archives from January 2007

Domestic war: Locke's concept of prerogative and implications for U.S. "wars" today *.(John Locke)(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2007... "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of exception' in which we live is the rule" Walter Benjamin (1) Introduction A dominant strand of contemporary liberal theory distinguishes between the largely...

Why do organized interests lobby? A multi-goal, multi-context theory of lobbying.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Why do organized interests lobby? (1) Answering this seemingly obvious question has become surprisingly difficult in light of recent research. One essential problem is that virtually all studies of interest organizations begin with the...

Annexation policy in Milwaukee: an historical institutionalist approach.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Introduction Following World War II, the city of Milwaukee nearly doubled its size through an aggressive annexation program spearheaded by the mayor and top city bureaucrats. From 1946 to 1956, the city grew in size from 44 to 80 square...

Rawls and the Kantian Ethos *.(John Rawls and Emmaneul Kant)(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2007... Introduction John Rawls, it is well known, was a life-long student of Kant. (1) One of the most famous and controversial sections of A Theory of Justice (1971) is entitled, "The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness" (Section 40)....

The fourteenth amendment through Roe-colored glasses: unenumerated rights and the "imperial judiciary" *.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Prominent jurists such as Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork contend that the United States Supreme Court has undermined democratic principles by creating new rights lacking roots in the Constitution's text. When judges depart from the language of...

Global democracy: diverse representation or states-plus? *.(Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights)(Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus)(Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Carol Gould. Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. David Held. Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. Andrew Kuper....