Polity articles from March 1999

Polity archives from March 1999

What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences.
March 22, 1999... Nowhere in the broad and heterogeneous work on concept formation has the question of conceptual utility been satisfactorily addressed. Goodness in concept formation, I argue, cannot be reduced to `clarity,' to empirical or theoretical...

Foucault's Subject: An Ontological Reading.(philosopher Michel Foucault)
March 22, 1999... From the mid-1970s until his death, Michel Foucault sought to develop an account of the subject that would avoid both regarding the subject as merely the passive product of power relations and regarding it as entirely selfcreating. Following...

Roosevelt, Mayors and the New Deal Regime: The Origins of Intergovernmental Lobbying and Administration.(former Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt)
March 22, 1999... The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), founded in 1933 to give big city mayors an effective organizational base for lobbying Congress and coordinating with executive branch agencies, was a major force in New Deal politics. It lobbied...

State Enforcement of the Federal Hazardous Waste Program.
March 22, 1999... This article assesses the usefulness of the principal-agent, economic dependency, and state political resources approaches in accounting for differences in state-level enforcement of the federal hazardous waste management program. Using a...

The Politics of Distinction and Disobedience: Honor and the Defense of Liberty in Montesquieu.(Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, 18th-century French lawyer and political philosopher)
March 22, 1999... Elaborating Montesquieu's concept of honor illuminates a dimension of his liberalism that has been neglected by prior commentary, and calls attention to a form of political motivation that has been overlooked in contemporary political theory....

Justice Uncertain: Judith Shklar on Liberalism, Skepticism, and Equality.(political philosopher)
March 22, 1999... Early in her career, Judith Shklar devised an array of arguments challenging political theorists' assumptions about the possibility of resolving ethical conflicts, understanding human psychology, and validly interpreting social reality....

Two Parties--Or More? The American Party System.(Review)
March 22, 1999... John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel, Two Parties--Or More? The American Party System (Boulder: Westview, 1998). For a number of reasons, popular and scholarly interest in alternatives to the American two-party system have both been rising....

Multiparty Politics in America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Paul S. Herrnson and John C. Green, eds., Multiparty Politics in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). For a number of reasons, popular and scholarly interest in alternatives to the American two-party system have both been...

A Republic of Parties? Debating the Two-Party System.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Theodore J. Lowi and Joseph Romance, A Republic of Parties? Debating the Two-Party System (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). For a number of reasons, popular and scholarly interest in alternatives to the American two-party system...

Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System.(Review)
March 22, 1999... David Reynolds, Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System (Boston: South End, 1997). For a number of reasons, popular and scholarly interest in alternatives to the American two-party system have both been rising. The...