... accepting the invitation. Increasingly, associational life in the "advanced" capitalist and social democratic countries seems at risk. Publicists and preachers warn us of a steady attenuati...
...n to strengthen civil society? It's not enough to say that it is a matter of judgment, of prudence, or of democratic politics. Judgment presupposes criteria, prudence a context of criteria from wh...
...civil societies. Nevertheless, I do believe that the discourse of civil society involves a politics, a democratic politics potentially more engaging and mobilizing than the slogan "join th...
...litical realm, which is different from the realm of public discourse (though not unrelated to it, at least in democratic states) can be the regulator of the tension and can ensure that one never succu...
...That, in turn, helps to set the stage for my turn to two evolving traditions--Catholic social thought and the democratic theorizing of civil society emerging from Central Eastern Europe--as sources of...
... story that we have to tell about modernity, which, in Hegel's view, is the Judeo-Christian story. Modern democratic pluralist societies are possible only on the basis of a kind of secularization ...
...port. I retained very warm feelings for Norman Thomas, and felt a strong moral continuity with his concept of democratic socialism. Nevertheless, I could no longer accept socialist economic doctrines...
...oni might say, "cynical" market rationality must be embedded in social responsibility and framed by democratic institutions. Economic values have to be counterbalanced by other--and for the ...
...ent that, among other factors, the functioning of the welfare state as well as the institutional richness and democratic reach of the civil society depends heavily on the economic efficiency of a give...
...Magaziner, and Shearer on the side of a public-investment strategy, and a group representing the conservative Democratic Leadership Conference in favor of tax cuts. Clinton decided for Reich and compa...
... the European Union. Whether these developments, trends, and different approaches to shape a more social and democratic society in Central and Eastern Europe should be defined as social democracy is ...
...erring example" referred to was, in the first phase, Sweden, but soon other countries with (then) social democratic governments such as Great Britain, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, an...
...in the United States, been the same people for more than a generation or two. And, consequently, the sorts of democratic politics that evolved in Western Europe have never evolved in the same way here...
...estern Europe. It is gradually becoming clear that nationalist aspirations were sometimes mistaken for democratic ambitions by Western observers of the momentous events between 1989 and 1991. E...
...of the population of a state into self-contained sub-units. And, in fact, the ability which once provided the Democratic Party with its unity, namely the skill to forge a single unit out of ethnic div...
...ther set of theories about democracy, it seems to work anyway). They are ashamed by the very things that less democratic societies lack, freedom of the press for example, while taking pride in matters...
... democracy has been a remarkable success after World War II. From 1918 through 1939, after the progression of democratic tendencies in the beginning of the 1920s, most countries in Europe gradually re...
... the Pope is certainly not a contemporary Social Democrat, he comes closest to Marx. The socialist and social democratic parties of Western Europe are like their liberal or, frequently, Social Christi...
... for the Left is to envisage how this can be done in a way that is compatible with the existence of a liberal democratic regime. To be sure, such a project has been on the agenda for some time and f...
...e neo-liberal doctrines strongly influenced economic policies all around the world, tempting even some social democratic parties, contaminating the discourse of many of its leaders, and ge...
