Polity articles from June 1997

Polity archives from June 1997

The revolutionary spirit: Hannah Arendt and the anarchists of the Spanish Civil War.
June 22, 1997... Hannah Arendt argued that the only way to keep a revolution from degenerating into an authoritarian regime no more hospitable to freedom and equality than the regime it overthrew is to create a republic of broad-based councils to institutionalize...

Postmodernity and the routinization of novelty: Heidegger on boredom and technology.(Martin Heidegger)
June 22, 1997... Postmodernity is characterized by the routinization of novelty, evidenced in the drive for technological change that makes constant demands on and is constantly demanded by postmodern publics and elites. Martin Heidegger sees this technological...

Why there cannot be a theory of politics.
June 22, 1997... Although the idea of a universal theory of politics, both empirical and normative, remains pervasive in the discursive practices of political science and political theory, such a notion can be sustained only in a trivial sense. Since politics is...

Political parties and public policy: social welfare policy from Carter to Bush.(in the United States)
June 22, 1997... Recent studies have concluded that the U.S. system of separation of powers is surprisingly effective in producing legislation, even under conditions of divided government. This article goes beyond the question of how much legislation is produced,...

Civic virtue and Socratic virtue.
June 22, 1997... Many contemporary observers believe that liberal states need to encourage the virtues of citizenship as a corrective to calculative individualism. Yet others fear that any such effort will jeopardize autonomy and diversity. A fuller understanding...

Tolerance, toleration and the liberal tradition.
June 22, 1997... The tendency to use tolerance and toleration as roughly interchangable terms has encouraged misunderstanding of the liberal legacy and impeded efforts to improve upon it. We can improve our understanding by defining "toleration" as a set of...

Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America.
June 22, 1997... John H. Aldrich, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). The course of American political development has been marked by the successive creation, consolidation, maintenance, and demise of partisan regimes, a process Stephen Skowronek...

Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics and the Fiscal State.
June 22, 1997... John J. Coleman, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). The course of American political development has been marked by the successive creation, consolidation, maintenance, and demise of partisan regimes, a process Stephen Skowronek...

Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930's and 1940's.
June 22, 1997... David Plotke, (New York. Cambridge University Press, 1996). The course of American political development has been marked by the successive creation, consolidation, maintenance, and demise of partisan regimes, a process Stephen Skowronek refers...

Why regimes? Ideas, incentives, and policies in American political orders.
June 22, 1997... Andrew J. Polsky, Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY The course of American political development has been marked by the successive creation, consolidation, maintenance, and demise of partisan regimes, a process Stephen Skowronek...