Polity back issues from July 2005:
Exposing the invisible hand: the roots of laissez-faire's hidden influence *.
Jul 01, 2005; ... I love my country, it's the government I'm afraid of--Bumper sticker Introduction In his closing remarks at the third and final 2000 presidential debate, George W. Bush proclaimed, "I trust people, I don't trust the federal government." Putting aside the more obvious ...
Civic engagement and voluntary associations: reconsidering the role of the governance structures of advocacy groups.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Introduction Despite the ubiquity of politically oriented voluntary associations, observers of trends in civic engagement remain unimpressed by the opportunities for civic participation available to members of such groups. Scholars have argued, for example, that check-writing is ...
Avoiding "embarrassment": aesthetic reason and aporetic critique in dialectic of enlightenment *.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Introduction At the root of Jurgen Habermas's objections to Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's critique of enlightenment lies his Weberian conception of the development of Western reason through societal rationalization. As Habermas argues in The Theory of Communicative ...
Between consensus and conflict: Habermas, post-modern agonism and the early American public sphere *.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Introduction The title of Chantal Mouffe's recent essay captures precisely--if inadvertently--the state of the debate over democratic theory: "Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?" I have taken the liberty of adding emphasis to the word "or" to highlight the binary ...
The overreach of political education and liberalism's philosopher-democrat.
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Goals of Political Education Contemporary theorizing in political education is caught between incompatible ambitions; incompatible, that is, in anything more than an uneasy modus vivendi. It is caught between producing autonomous individuals, on the one hand, and deeply ...
How to defend (same-sex) marriage.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Evan Gerstmann. Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Andrew Koppelman. The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Jonathan Rauch. Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for ...