Polity articles from September 2001

Polity archives from September 2001

"Making the world safe for hypocrisy"? *.
September 22, 2001... Moral posturing has become a fact of political life in liberal democracies. Citizens are so inundated with disingenuous avowals of moral principles that they almost expect their politicians to be hypocrites. And who could blame them?...

Hypocrisy and the limits of debunking it.
September 22, 2001... In this interesting and important paper Suzanne Dovi accomplishes two worthy tasks. She presents a careful critique of Judith Shklar's argument that hypocrisy is an "ordinary vice" of liberal democracy, and outlines a more nuanced account of...

Liberal democracy and the empire of speed *.
September 22, 2001... Any attempt to make sense of the human condition at the start of the new century must begin with an analysis of time and space compression. (1) Advances in information and communications technology now allow vast currents of capital to circuit...

Reason, passion, and politics in Rousseau *.(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
September 22, 2001... In a collection of essays entitled Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy, Stephen Holmes characterizes classical liberal theory as centrally concerned with the problems that passions or "irrational motivations" pose to...

Statehood, the English language, and the politics of education in Puerto Rico *.
September 22, 2001... I. Introduction Language policy and nationalism are significant issues in comparative politics, and concern with various versions of rational choice remains important in comparative, policy and theoretical studies. This article examines...

Ken Burns, Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (2000).
September 22, 2001... America Without Dissonance: Ken Burns's Jazz * Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Jazz: A History of America's Music (New York: Knopf, 2000). Jazz, a nineteen-hour television mini-series and 460-page book chronicling the history of the...