Polity articles from June 2000

Polity archives from June 2000

Cultural Pluralism from Liberal Perfectionist Premises.
June 22, 2000... Some of the most robust recent arguments in favor of collective rights and protections for cultural minorities in democratic states have come from proponents of a curious hybrid position in political theory: perfectionist liberalism.(1)...

The Division of Labor in Social Science Research: Unified Methodology or "Organic Solidarity"?(*).
June 22, 2000... Society becomes more effective in moving in concert, at the same time as each of its elements has more movements that are peculiarly its own. -- Emile Durkheim(1) Recent efforts to establish uniform standards and methods for a unified...

The Politics of Welfare Reform in Wisconsin(*).
June 22, 2000... Welfare politics has outrun the research about it. "Welfare politics" here means the controversy about how to reform Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the aid program for single-parent families, a dispute going back to the 1960s....

The Clay Speakership Revisited(*).
June 22, 2000... Henry Clay of Kentucky served as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for most of the period between 1811 and 1825. Clay's speakership is of unusual interest to students of the early development of American politics and political...

The Electoral and Policy Context of Divided Government and Presidential Support in Congress: Nixon and Bush Compared(*).
June 22, 2000... Split-party control of the presidency and Congress, or "divided government," has been a common feature in the landscape of American national politics since 1945. In the last half century, divided government has prevailed for more than 6 out of...

Accuracy and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasting by the Administration, the CBO, and the Federal Reserve Board.
June 22, 2000... When the 105th Congress began to debate the FY98 budget, a familiar political scenario unfolded. Although President Clinton had yielded to Republican demands that a balanced budget be achieved in seven years, it was not long before the economic...

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States.
June 22, 2000... David M. Hart, Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. With the advent of World War II, the United States' scientific establishment was...

Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States.
June 22, 2000... Daniel Lee Kleinman, Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States, Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. With the advent of World War II, the United States' scientific establishment was mobilized to support...

American Science Policy Since World War II.
June 22, 2000... Bruce L. R. Smith, American Science Policy Since World War II, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1990. With the advent of World War II, the United States' scientific establishment was mobilized to support the war effort in a novel...