Politics at the turn of the century /

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Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2001.
Description:xxii, 368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4489228
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Other authors / contributors:Melzer, Arthur M.
Weinberger, Jerry, 1944-
Zinman, M. Richard.
Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-
ISBN:0847694453 (alk. paper)
0847694461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Fifth volume of essays to be published by the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The United States
  • Identity Politics
  • 1. The Left's Lost Universalism
  • 2. From Identity Politics to Social Feminism
  • 3. Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism?
  • Big Government
  • 4. The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State
  • 5. What Kind of Government Do We Have to Fear?
  • 6. Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville's Analysis
  • 7. Big Government and Rights
  • 8. The Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government
  • 9. From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause of Big Government
  • Part II. The World
  • 10. Notes on Markets, Politics, and "Big Government"
  • 11. The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western Europe
  • 12. The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for Peron
  • 13. Party, Ideology, and the Public World in the Former Soviet Space
  • 14. Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War India
  • 15. Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China
  • 16. Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy
  • Index
  • About the Contributors