Polity articles from July 2004

Polity archives from July 2004

Editor's note.(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... This issue of Polity is the last to be produced as an entirely in-house operation. Beginning with Volume 37, no. 1, which will appear in January 2005, Polity will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. This move will have no effect on Polity's...

The moral limits of humanitarian intervention: reconciling human respect and utility.
July 1, 2004... It is clear that military force should be used cautiously, but at the same time, some human rights violations cannot be effectively addressed by anything short of forcible coercion. This essay utilizes competing views on international...

The myth of the patterned principle: Rawls, Nozick and entitlements.
July 1, 2004... Is the Difference Principle a patterned principle? Robert Nozick's claim that the principle is patterned constitutes the enduring legacy of Anarchy, State and Utopia. (1) While Nozick's entitlement theory of justice has few literal adherents,...

History, political science and study of leadership.
July 1, 2004... This essay is in part, a retrospective analysis of my own work. The theoretical insights set out here emerged from that work and are presented in full for the first time. This essay addresses two questions: 1. Under what conditions and with...

John Steinbeck on the political capacities of everyday folk: moms, reds, and ma Joad's revolt.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... Many scholars, including political scientists Murray Edelman, Michael Paul Rogin, and Judith Shklar and literary critics David Herzberger and Edward Said, have commented on the effectiveness of novels in communicating political ideas. (1)...

Dormant delegation: evidence on the conflicting findings of research on legislative representation *.
July 1, 2004... Introduction A central question of legislative scholarship examines why quantitative studies of representation often reach contradictory results. (1) In many studies the results appear to turn on the specification of the model and the...

A fair test of media bias: party, race, and gender in coverage of the 1992 house banking scandal.
July 1, 2004... Media credibility has been dropping steadily. Once considered a trustworthy profession, in recent years public trust in "newspaper reporters" has fallen beneath such occupations as lawyers, real estate agents, labor union leaders, stockbrokers,...

Who chooses experience? Examining the use of veteran staff by House freshmen.
July 1, 2004... Scholars have long recognized the important role congressional staff play in promoting the effectiveness of their employers. This is especially true for new representatives, who usually have few other resources. This article examines the hiring...

The politics of Wittgenstein *.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Cressida J. Heyes, ed. The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Ludwig Nagl and Chantal Mouffe, eds. The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction, Frankfurt:...