Pluralism At Yale

Author : Richard M. Merelman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0299184145

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Pluralism at Yale by Richard M. Merelman Pdf

Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America explores the relationship between personal experience and academic theories of American politics. Through a detailed examination of the Yale University Department of Political Science between 1955 and 1970, including interviews with many of the political scientists involved, this book traces the way "pluralism," a predominately optimistic theory of American democracy which the Yale department helped to develop in those years, helped to support the American political regime. Merelman also analyzes the impact of social and political events on the decline of Yale pluralism and describes pluralism's continued political relevance today. Included are discussions of McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War.

Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235319

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Anti-Pluralism by William A. Galston Pdf

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today’s crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300127737

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On Toleration by Michael Walzer Pdf

What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy.

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300127706

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Politics and Passion by Michael Walzer Pdf

Liberalism is egalitarian in principle, but why doesn’t it do more to promote equality in practice? In this book, the distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a critique of liberal theory and demonstrates that crucial realities have been submerged in the evolution of contemporary liberal thought. In the standard versions of liberal theory, autonomous individuals deliberate about what ought to be done—but in the real world, citizens also organize, mobilize, bargain, and lobby. The real world is more contentious than deliberative. Ranging over hotly contested issues including multiculturalism, pluralism, difference, civil society, and racial and gender justice, Walzer suggests ways in which liberal theory might be revised to make it more hospitable to the claims of equality. Combining profound learning with practical wisdom, Michael Walzer offers a provocative reappraisal of the core tenets of liberal thought. Politics and Passion will be required reading for anyone interested in social justice—and the means by which we seek to achieve it.

Author : Robert A. Dahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : OCLC:59783711

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Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy by Robert A. Dahl Pdf

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107017672

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Modern Pluralism by Mark Bevir Pdf

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

Author : Rainer Eisfeld
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847412991

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Pluralism by Rainer Eisfeld Pdf

The book focuses on the study of democratic processes. Special emphasis is put (1) on the existence of a diversity of (e. g. socio-economic, ethno-cultural,.) interests and the transformation of this diversity into public policies, (2) on the participatory features of democracy and on barriers to individual and group participation due to disparities in economic and political resources.

Author : Hans Blokland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317079576

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Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge by Hans Blokland Pdf

The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited. We can only address this discontent when we rehabilitate politics, the deliberate, joint effort to give direction to society and to make the best of ourselves. In Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge, Hans Blokland examines this challenge via a critical appraisal of the pluralist conception of politics and democracy. This conception was formulated by, above all, Robert A. Dahl, one of the most important political scholars and democratic theorists of the last half century. Taking his work as the point of reference, this book not only provides an illuminating history of political science, told via Dahl and his critics, it also offers a revealing analysis as to what progress we have made in our thinking on pluralism and democracy, and what progress we could make, given the epistemological constraints of the social sciences. Above and beyond this, the development and the problems of pluralism and democracy are explored in the context of the process of modernization. The author specifically discusses the extent to which individualization, differentiation and rationalization contribute to the current political malaise in those countries which adhere to a pluralist political system.

Author : Robert Alan Dahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 0300025432

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Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy by Robert Alan Dahl Pdf

Author : Theodore J. Lowi,Norman K. Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317263586

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Arenas of Power by Theodore J. Lowi,Norman K. Nicholson Pdf

Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena-"social regulatory policy." As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public policy, the system may be turned on its head. This volume shows the evolution of the public policy arena over more than forty years of writing and thinking and presents some never before published material including helpful analytical introductions. The book concludes as Lowi looks ahead to an internationalizing U.S. political economy and the need for a global political science.

Author : Robert A. Dahl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300173407

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Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy by Robert A. Dahl Pdf

“Continuing his career-long exploration of modern democracy, Dahl addresses a question that has long vexed students of political theory: the place of independent organizations, associations, or special interest groups within the democratic state.”—The Wilson Quarterly “There is probably no greater expert today on the subject of democratic theory than Dahl….His proposal for an ultimate adoption here of a ‘decentralized socialist economy,’ a system primarily of worker ownership and control of economic production, is daring but rational, reflecting his view that economic inequality seems destined to become the major issue here it historically has been in Europe.”—Library Journal “Dahl reaffirms his commitment to pluralist democracy while attempting to come to terms with some of its defects.”—Laura Greyson, Worldview “Anyone who is interested in these issues and who makes the effort the book requires will come away the better for it. And more. He will receive an explanation for our current difficulties that differs considerably from the explanation for our current difficulties that differs considerably from the explanation offered by the Reagan administration, and a prescription for the future which differs fundamentally from the nostrums emanating from the White House.”—Dennis Carrigan, The (Louisville, Kentucky) Courier-Journal

Author : Marwan Muasher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300186390

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The Second Arab Awakening by Marwan Muasher Pdf

A knowledgeable insider provides the first clear view of what has happened in the Arab world and why

Author : Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191655654

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The Structure of Pluralism by Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli Pdf

Pluralism proceeds from the observation that many associations in liberal democracies claim to possess, and attempt to exercise, a measure of legitimate authority over their members. They assert that this authority does not derive from the magnanimity of a liberal and tolerant state but is grounded, rather, on the common practices and aspirations of those individuals who choose to take part in a common endeavor. As an account of the authority of associations, pluralism is distinct from other attempts to accommodate groups like multiculturalism, subsidiarity, corporatism, and associational democracy. It is consistent with the explanation of legal authority proposed by contemporary legal positivists, and recommends that the formal normative systems of highly organized groups be accorded the status of fully legal norms when they encounter the laws of the state. In this book, Muniz-Fraticelli argues that political pluralism is a convincing political tradition that makes distinctive and radical claims regarding the sources of political authority and the relationship between associations and the state. Drawing on the intellectual tradition of the British political pluralists, as well as recent developments in legal philosophy and social ontology, the book argues that political pluralism makes distinctive and radical claims regarding the sources of political authority and the relationship between associations and the state.

Author : Yaser Ellethy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317627463

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Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy by Yaser Ellethy Pdf

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition. This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic development, pluralism and democracy based on Arabic-Islamic sources and literature. Focusing on the parameters of semantic changes, methods of interpretation and cultural variables, it shows how this interpretative tradition offers a diversity of ideas and approaches that can be utilized in contemporary debates concerning the socio-political contextualization of Islamic genuine thought. However, within this diversity, Islam presents generic principles and core values as 'moral paradigms' that can deal with such modern challenges. Based on the analysis of core Islamic texts and key-terms related to the discussed issues, mainly from the Quran and the Sunnah, and the broader Arabic-Islamic literature, it explores the boundaries of the mutable and constant in the Islamic worldview. Presenting classical Muslim interpretations and scholars as possible interlocutors in debates over the compatibility of Islam with challenges of modernity, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates interested in Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religion and Political Science.

Author : William R. Hutchison
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300129571

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Religious Pluralism in America by William R. Hutchison Pdf

Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with the question of how we can coexist. In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country’s struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals. In 1800 the United States was an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. Over the next two centuries, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others would emerge to challenge the Protestant mainstream. Although their demands were often met with resistance, Hutchison demonstrates that as a result of these conflicts we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. No longer satisfied with mere legal toleration, we now expect that all religious groups will share in creating our national agenda. This book offers a groundbreaking and timely history of our efforts to become one nation under multiple gods.