Polity articles from June 1999

Polity archives from June 1999

The Wisdom of Prometheus: Kant, Marx, and Holderin on Politics, Disappointment, and the limits of Modernity(*).(philosophers Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx, novelist Friedrich Holderlin)
June 22, 1999

"Tending" and "Intending" a Nation: Conflicting Visions of American National Identity.
June 22, 1999

Critical Intercultural Dialogue(*).
June 22, 1999

Deliberative Democracy in Practice: Challenges and Prospects for Civic Deliberation(*).
June 22, 1999... The idea of a public constituted by free and equal citizens capable of making reflective judgments on issues of mutual concern lies at the heart of democratic theory. In a representative democracy, the opportunities for practicing a politics of...

Classification of Presidential Elections: An Update(*).(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999

The New Deal: A New Look.
June 22, 1999... For most of its sixty years, the historiography of the New Deal has been dominated by two major perspectives: pro- and anti-. Much of this work has been normative as well as descriptive or analytical: to explain not only how and why the New...

The New Deal: Avenues for Reconsideration.
June 22, 1999... Any author attempting a history of the 1930s stands at the end of a rich historiographical lineage that effectively dates from the mid-1950s. Its "founding fathers"--James MacGregor Burns, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and William E....

The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainspring of American Politics.
June 22, 1999... Michael Goldfield. The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics. New York: The New Press, 1997. A half-century ago, Gunnar Myrdal called attention to a dramatic contrast between American values and American practices...

Facing Up to the American Dream.
June 22, 1999... Jennifer Hochschild. Facing Up to the American Dream. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. A half-century ago, Gunnar Myrdal called attention to a dramatic contrast between American values and American practices on the question of...

Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State.
June 22, 1999... Robert C. Lieberman. Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. A half-century ago, Gunnar Myrdal called attention to a dramatic contrast between American values and American...

Voting Hopes or Fears.
June 22, 1999... Keith Reeves. Voting Hopes or Fears? Oxford University Press, 1997. A half-century ago, Gunnar Myrdal called attention to a dramatic contrast between American values and American practices on the question of race. Yet, he suggested, America...

Reaching Beyond Race.
June 22, 1999... Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines. Reaching Beyond Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. A half-century ago, Gunnar Myrdal called attention to a dramatic contrast between American values and American practices on the...