Polity articles from January 2008

Polity archives from January 2008

Edmund Burke, the Warren Hastings trial, and the moral dimension of corruption *.
January 1, 2008... Recent literature dealing with problems of corruption has done much to advance our understanding of how to approach many of the practical issues of combating it. However, this scholarship normally engages in a self-conscious move away from...

Rational choice analysis in classical Chinese political thought: the Han Feizi.
January 1, 2008... Area specialists and others have criticized the rational choice approach to political analysis as culture-bound, reflecting a modern western ethnocentric perspective. A study of the Han Feizi, the main text of the classic Chinese Legalist...

When welfare worked: a community approach to welfare reform.
January 1, 2008... This article examines the implementation of welfare reform in Oregon from 1995-2001 and argues that the state of Oregon provided a model for comprehensive reform with a community approach to welfare provision. Utilizing the flexibility and...

Insurgency campaigns and the quest for popular democracy: Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene McCarthy, and party monopolies *.
January 1, 2008... American politics has featured numerous intra-party and third-party insurgency campaigns. Scholarship on minor party, independent, and dissident campaigns has focused on how they have influenced electoral and policy outcomes. In particular, the...

Bringing the states back in: understanding legal subordination and identity through political development *.
January 1, 2008... A wealth of scholarship has addressed the connections among legal categorization and regulation, subordinated identity, and the process of political development in the United States. Focusing primarily upon the U.S. Supreme Court, this...

Peacebuilding: a time to listen to and learn from reconciliationism *.
January 1, 2008... Tristan Anne Borer, ed. Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Charles T. Call, ed. Constructing Justice and Security after War. Washington,...