...the new democracies created by the dissidents, so we are told, is to rebuild the networks: unions, churches, political par ties and movements, cooperatives, neighborhoods, schools of thought, societie...
...eryone a piece of the good life so conceived. Against this market liberalism Walzer argues for an actively political conception of civil society, one that recognizes the need to use state power to m...
...t. However, with the demise of Marxism and the revolutionary rhetoric of communism, the question confronting political theorists everywhere is whether utopian thought and meaningful political projects...
...t;state," "government," "power," or even "democracy," is a term of art in political theory. There is no discovering what the concept means, let alone what it "r...
...wer that has been given to this, the liberal answer, is to suggest that there exists or can exist a realm of political discourse in which only certain limited types of behavior and types of language a...
The question of the one and the many, of unity and diversity, has been posed since the beginning of political thought in the West. The American Founders were well aware of the vexations attendant upon
...able of moral vision? What can we possibly mean by a good society under modern circumstances? What would the political institutions of a good society look like with due allowance for local differences...
... to begin with the very general question: why is it that communitarianism has suddenly been appearing on the political and philosophical landscape in the way that it recently has? In trying to answer ...
...arianism in the twentieth century has reaffirmed a doctrine that emerged with special clarity from the political struggles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the idea that the containm...
...cial democrats and communists)? Is there in the United States a coherent "communitarian" school of political thought, moral philosophy and even of economic analysis? Does this "communit...
...ng and distributing the great bulk of non-commodities, namely public goods. The theoretical and consequently political reliance on market mechanisms by means of "deregulation" therefore may ...
...It's still too early to judge Clinton's answers. But, although he is pointed in the right direction, political and ideological timidity seem to be restraining him from taking the steps needed ...
...licy that is needed? In Western Europe we are talking intensively about deregulation and liberalization. The political aim is to achieve free market conditions everywhere, and to complete the so-calle...
...s on the limits of the welfare state, and even today the topic plays an important role in the scientific and political debate in Western Europe -- and North America. Ironically, this debate was starte...
...ntrol. Typical of these welfare regimes are the following traits: 1. The underlying dualism of civil and/or political rights (freedom) and of social rights (justice) implies that "social entitle...
...expansion (perhaps we could call it the frontier thesis in many ways) have played the role that politics and political negotiation and conflict have played in European societies. So, as it has often b...
The political world has been changing radically since the Central European revolution of 1989. Instead of traditional bi-polar conflict, we now have the potential for multi-polar political conflict. S
...ese as the Middle Kingdom; and in the Arab-Moslem notion of Dar al-Islam. In the West, an array of economic, political , and cultural transformations produced nations out of ethnie. So, rather than a b...
...itish and French formal or informal empire over nominally independent territories with little or no historic political presence, plus a half-hearted Wilsonian formula for the Jews in Palestine. The E...
...litics but exceptionally sensitive to culture. What constitutes for other countries the meat and potatoes of political conflict--the distribution of income among classes, regulation of industry, prote...
...bout a secured democracy yet. The main reason for the weakness of the new democratic governments lies in the political experience of the societies. About the former Czechoslovakia (but not exclusively...
... our common life has all but ceased, as architects and artisans contend with one another in strange tongues. Political and social philosophy have become domains for yet another set of academic special...
...ety. Some of these rights can of course have a universalistic character and correspond to all members of the political community; but some others will only correspond to specific social inscriptions. ...
... victory for capitalism, but the sign of the failings of Social Democracy. Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread throughout society, internationalism, as well as gl...
...cs is over. The nuclear danger looks much less imposing and real. The existential enemy has vanished and the political , ideological, and military threats that the enemy was supposed to embody have fad...
