Polity articles from October 2003

Polity archives from October 2003

Editor's introduction.(Polity forum: restorative justice)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... The nineteenth-century French historian and philosopher Ernest Renan famously remarked that "the essence of a nation is that all individuals have many things in common, and also that they have forgotten many things." (1) Among the latter are...

Restorative justice and civic accountability for punishment.
October 1, 2003... Before offering a critical view of a reform movement in criminal justice from the perspective of democratic theory, one has some explaining to do. Despite the fact that the United States has recently achieved premier status as the country that...

Legitimation or judgment? South Africa's restorative approach to transitional justice *.
October 1, 2003... As a member of Cape Town's Terrorist Detection Unit in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Benzien perfected a form of torture known as the "wet bag" method, which he used along with electric shock treatments against members of the liberation movements who...

Racial justice as transitional justice *.
October 1, 2003... In the United States today, there remain many unresolved issues related to race, in particular issues that are legacies of past injustices toward African Americans. This article argues that, in addressing these issues, we have much to learn...

An experiment in democratic political education *.
October 1, 2003... This ongoing experiment for undergraduates at Michigan State University and several community partners, including students in a small nearby elementary school in Okemos, Michigan, has been designed to put into practice a particular view of...

Delicate discriminations: Thomas Hobbes's science of politics *.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Unless we try...

The overvaluation of talent: an interpretation and application of Rousseau's amour-propre.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... Rousseau's Second Discourse is a furious assault on modern bourgeois culture. Modern humans, Rousseau wants us to know, are slaves. They are slaves, in fact, in almost every sense in which the word could be applied. First of all, they are...

Building democracy and the rule of law: from Moses the law giver to World Bank conditionality?(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Amartya Sen. Development As Freedom, New York: Random House, 1999. Mancur Olson. Power and Prosperity; Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, New York: Basic Books, 2000. Thomas Carothers. Aiding Democracy Abroad: The...