...e that is easy to understand and offers a chance for players to win large sums of money is a winning combination . Just look at the way that people flock to the old fashioned three reel slot machines. ...
...ns of civil society related? Walzer suggests that in a liberal polity, when ties of family, religion, and nation ality dissolve, there is really not much left beyond the marketplace, with its conceptio...
...ange the institutions of civil society in a direction away from hierarchical, inegalitarian, patriarchal, nation alist, racist versions toward egalitarian, horizontal, non-sexist, open versions based o...
...e the notion that these differences are, in and of themselves, never morally adequate reasons for the domination of one person over another. That has to be worked out in a particular given historical ...
...iminary discussion is needed to frame the horizon for my consideration of the ways in which the quest for nation al unity under the auspices of the state has, over time, exercised a corrosive effect on...
... of elections, part of the communitarian movement will lag. Finally, the suggestion of creating a year of nation al service is meant to further enhance the education for and the practice of service for...
...ties for satisfying human connections. The natural home of such connections is to be found not so much in nation al politics, the politics of the nation -state, as it is in what the social theorist Herb...
I will offer some very general reflections on why certain communitarian ideas have been raised in the nation al debate and why the communitarian agenda on its own cannot be the full story of what we sh
...uot;exchange" or "authority" or "persuasion" as forms or methods of social coordination (to adopt the terminology of Charles E. Lindblom)--but the task of the left is to preve...
... States or in Great Britain, many economists today criticize the negative effects of deregulation on internation al competitiveness of deregulated economies. Hence another traditional answer seems rat...
...competitive global marketplace. With his election, "industrial policy" has crept back on to the nation al agenda: the question now is not whether the government should guide the private secto...
...rsions of the great vision of socialism. And instead of creating a free society of equal chances and internation al solidarity, they established an especially crude form of capitalism and of nation al s...
...ervices. In Western Europe this process accelerated palpably after World War II. The massive social deracination as a consequence of the war, the enormous geographic and social mobility forced upon pe...
...ust or problematic for the proper functioning of capitalism. Consequently, therapies have shifted between nation alization and privatization, between restricting or expanding welfare expenses and servi...
...l--which we see as corporatist but also as having strong democratic elements--was only generalized to the nation al scene with the New Deal and World War II. During this period the rudiments of a natio...
...nt plans for monetary and political union. The "Brussels Bureaucracy" should be trimmed and the nation al parliaments should retain their powers as far as possible. As a German "modernis...
The resurgence of nation alism after the collapse of communism startled many observers in the West. What could have been more stark than the contrast between Western and Eastern Europe? As the European
...y is visible or even conceivable. It is against this background that we see the present rise of ethnic or nation alist or separatist phenomena in various, but by no means in all parts of the world. But...
...he attitude of the great majority of Americans to such traditional political subjects is an unstable combination of boredom, resentment, and sporadic attention. Culture, on the other hand, grabs ever...
...ic developments. A further roadblock on the way to a democratic system is posed by stronger nation alist feelings. Democratic progress requires strong internation al cooperation as well as...
...the peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have good reason to be apprehensive. In our own nation , meanwhile, the loud, triumphant rejoicing of 1989 has given way to more sober reflecti...
...cracy. Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread throughout society, internation alism, as well as global and local solidarity. Human rights, citizen rights, and humanit...
...ce enormous difficulties in the territories of the former Soviet Union and in eastern Europe. The rise of nation alistic sentiments is the source of growing instability in these regions, while the inab...
