Polity articles from July 2005

Polity archives from July 2005

Exposing the invisible hand: the roots of laissez-faire's hidden influence *.
July 1, 2005... I love my country, it's the government I'm afraid of--Bumper sticker Introduction In his closing remarks at the third and final 2000 presidential debate, George W. Bush proclaimed, "I trust people, I don't trust the federal...

Civic engagement and voluntary associations: reconsidering the role of the governance structures of advocacy groups.
July 1, 2005... Introduction Despite the ubiquity of politically oriented voluntary associations, observers of trends in civic engagement remain unimpressed by the opportunities for civic participation available to members of such groups. Scholars have...

Avoiding "embarrassment": aesthetic reason and aporetic critique in dialectic of enlightenment *.
July 1, 2005... Introduction At the root of Jurgen Habermas's objections to Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's critique of enlightenment lies his Weberian conception of the development of Western reason through societal rationalization. As Habermas...

Between consensus and conflict: Habermas, post-modern agonism and the early American public sphere *.
July 1, 2005... Introduction The title of Chantal Mouffe's recent essay captures precisely--if inadvertently--the state of the debate over democratic theory: "Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?" I have taken the liberty of adding emphasis to...

The overreach of political education and liberalism's philosopher-democrat.
July 1, 2005... The Goals of Political Education Contemporary theorizing in political education is caught between incompatible ambitions; incompatible, that is, in anything more than an uneasy modus vivendi. It is caught between producing autonomous...

How to defend (same-sex) marriage.
July 1, 2005... Evan Gerstmann. Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Andrew Koppelman. The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Jonathan Rauch....