Polity articles from June 1998

Polity archives from June 1998

The Myth of benign group identity: a critique of liberal nationalism.
June 22, 1998... Some political theorists claim that a nationalism that acknowledges the authority of liberal moral principles can avoid the violent excesses that have given nationalism a bad name. On this view, the cure for nationalist violence is not a...

Wittgenstein among the savages: language, action and political theory.
June 22, 1998... In his attempt to understand matters of the spirit, most notably in the "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough," Wittgenstein elaborated an account of human action that enables us to overcome the commonplace modern dichotomy between political science...

Reconsidering the role of Sophie in Rousseau's Emile. (author Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
June 22, 1998... Many commentators have pointed out that the character of Sophie in Emile does not possess the wholeness of a unified soul, and therefore lacks that which Rousseau holds up (at least for men) as the means to achieving freedom and happiness. This...

Segmented partisanship in a Southern political elite.
June 22, 1998... Segmented partisanship combines the traditional conceptualization of party identification with the reality of different parties operating in different locales. Using a sample of campaign contributors in Georgia legislative elections, we analyze...

Protesting the invasion of Cambodia: a case study of crowd behavior and demonstration leadership.
June 22, 1998... Protest and protest behavior deserve more attention from political scientists. Using four theories of crowd behavior developed in sociology--transformation, predisposition, emergent norms, and purposive behavior--we investigate the antiwar...

Liberal perfectionism and democratic participation.
June 22, 1998... Martha Nussbaum and other "liberal perfectionists" have endorsed a robust doctrine of state responsibility that is perfectionist in its conception of well-being but liberal in its sensitivity to the autonomy of individuals and the differences...

Position effects in multimember districts: the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1972-1994.
June 22, 1998... Parties and candidates go to considerable length to secure first position on the ballot because they believe this position yields important electoral advantage. This note challenges that belief on two grounds. It first shows that countries in...