...ions of civil society related? Walzer suggests that in a liberal polity, when ties of family, religion, and national ity dissolve, there is really not much left beyond the marketplace, with its concept...
...change the institutions of civil society in a direction away from hierarchical, inegalitarian, patriarchal, national ist, racist versions toward egalitarian, horizontal, non-sexist, open versions based...
... the temptation to merge the "I" and the "we" in one or another of the ways--economics, national ism, and so forth--that we are constantly tempted with. Now, both of those answers,...
...eliminary discussion is needed to frame the horizon for my consideration of the ways in which the quest for national unity under the auspices of the state has, over time, exercised a corrosive effect ...
...ng of elections, part of the communitarian movement will lag. Finally, the suggestion of creating a year of national service is meant to further enhance the education for and the practice of service f...
...nities for satisfying human connections. The natural home of such connections is to be found not so much in national politics, the politics of the nation-state, as it is in what the social theorist He...
I will offer some very general reflections on why certain communitarian ideas have been raised in the national debate and why the communitarian agenda on its own cannot be the full story of what we sh
...tschaften (elective affinities). Today, "the day after" the break down of communism, the erupting national isms claim "national " (which equals ethnic) community first and are fighti...
...ed States or in Great Britain, many economists today criticize the negative effects of deregulation on international competitiveness of deregulated economies. Hence another traditional answer seems r...
...w competitive global marketplace. With his election, "industrial policy" has crept back on to the national agenda: the question now is not whether the government should guide the private sec...
...versions of the great vision of socialism. And instead of creating a free society of equal chances and international solidarity, they established an especially crude form of capitalism and of national ...
...njust or problematic for the proper functioning of capitalism. Consequently, therapies have shifted between national ization and privatization, between restricting or expanding welfare expenses and ser...
...del--which we see as corporatist but also as having strong democratic elements--was only generalized to the national scene with the New Deal and World War II. During this period the rudiments of a nat...
...eant plans for monetary and political union. The "Brussels Bureaucracy" should be trimmed and the national parliaments should retain their powers as far as possible. As a German "modern...
The resurgence of national ism 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
...ity is visible or even conceivable. It is against this background that we see the present rise of ethnic or national ist or separatist phenomena in various, but by no means in all parts of the world. B...
...eve in government and are willing to accept low pay. Meanwhile the ability of fundamentalists to shape what national Republicans say and do remains striking, epitomized by the low moment when George B...
...atic developments. A further roadblock on the way to a democratic system is posed by stronger national ist feelings. Democratic progress requires strong international cooperation as well ...
...pitalism. The Webbs argued for its introduction in Britain on grounds of imperial competition with Germany; national solidarity was necessary in a situation of international conflict. Capitalism expan...
...mocracy. Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread throughout society, international ism, as well as global and local solidarity. Human rights, citizen rights, and human...
...face enormous difficulties in the territories of the former Soviet Union and in eastern Europe. The rise of national istic sentiments is the source of growing instability in these regions, while the in...
