... associational life in the "advanced" capitalist and social democratic countries seems at risk. Public ists and preachers warn us of a steady attenuation of everyday cooperation and civic fri...
...berty and associational solidarity--but only within the limits of civility; that is, within the limits of public morality, the rule of law. Developing these criteria--the constitutional principles of ...
...n versions based on the principles of individual rights and democratic participation in associations, and public . No one can argue convincingly that such a movement is realized anywhere in the W...
...wls. Another answer is to suggest in fact that the political realm, which is different from the realm of public discourse (though not unrelated to it, at least in democratic states) can be the regula...
...s: natural law and natural right were not their invention. Preoccupied from time to time with classical republic an precedents, the Federalists and anti-Federalists struggled with a general fund of ide...
... pay for the government services, while paying ever less for them via tax cuts. In many other areas, from public education to the war on drugs, facile non-taxing "solutions" have been offere...
...nce for local differences and circumstances? What is the political economy of a good society? What is its public culture? There is no one answer to these questions. But these are the kinds of re-envis...
...individuals mediating institutions, and a set of legal institutions for administering the law and various public works. There must be a deeper form of ethical community, that of political community (w...
... variation accounts for many of the puzzles political scientists have encountered in analyzing voting and public opinion. There is no substitute for an active, committed citizenry. The political proc...
...mor about American "communitarianism" was not only commented on in American journals, e.g., The Public Interest (as a more or less disguised version of "socialism" or "postmod...
...ribute commodities, so they fail in allocating and distributing the great bulk of non-commodities, namely public goods. The theoretical and consequently political reliance on market mechanisms by mean...
...nt to the ability of an advanced nation to compete. These are factors that can be improved upon by shrewd public choices. The idea is still resisted in most university economics departments, but...
...roblems than Italy, with its high percentage of state-controlled industries, or Germany with its enormous public investments in infrastructure, social welfare, and education. Leading industrialists a...
...n other countries with (then) social democratic governments such as Great Britain, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Austria followed. This debate on the limits of the welfare state is at...
...rity and its externalization in the form of the welfare state. Central to this approach is the concept of public freedom as practiced in the public sphere, where citizens articulate their opinions, or...
...he common realm, to privately secure for themselves what they think, perhaps rightly, is not available in public . So we have, for example, the extraordinary phenomenon of the American development of ...
...be identified with "la nation," and concurrently demanded of the left that it make the French republic , together with universal human values, its cause. Any assault on human rights had to be...
...resident create secret and unaccountable governmental action, willing to tolerate fantastic abuses of the public trust in the name of deregulation, Americans will nonetheless call radio talk shows and...
...red for deep economic and governmental reforms. The stabilization of democracy within the former Soviet republic s, for which the functioning of the economies is a precondition, is a task for the entir...
...ocial conflict in equal measure--while our citizenry is increasingly ambivalent about the remnants of our public life. This essay asks if we in the United States have the intellectual and spiritual re...
...anization in an increasing number of social relations and institutions: the family, schools, the economy, public administration, etc. Nevertheless, contrary to Bobbio, I believe that this...
...Democratism" and human rights as the ideology of the loss of political consciousness; the decline of public civicism as ecologicism. This perversion of ecology is in the process of becoming the i...
...a diversity of ways to combine market and state operations in order to obtain an appropriate combination. Public management may be stripped of some fat. Inefficient management and corruption are not t...
