Ending party cleavage for a better polity: is Kwasi Wiredu’s non-party polity a viable alternative to a party polity?

The Good Polity

Depicting a good polity, one that is morally superior and desired, is relatively easy. Utopian writers have drawn various designs for centuries. Some prefer direct democracies to representative ones; some see much merit in local government; others extol the merits of world government. There is surely much merit to this visionary approach, if only because it allows one to clarify the values to w...

Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity

Since the 2000 presidential elections, the evolution of electronic technologies in American elections–from voting machines to computerized voter registries–has occurred within the context of a highly partisan, polarized, and politicized environment. The decision about the type of voting systems to use within a given state has become especially political and these debates have affected the confi...

Information Polity - Developing a truly international journal

From information infrastructure to information polity

Most academic journals will reach a publishing watershed; a point in their existence at which a reorientation is deemed appropriate. So it is with Information Infrastructure and Policy as it transforms during this edition and the next into a wholly new journal, Information Polity: The International Journal of Government and Democracy in the Information Age. This edition remains true to the prog...

Arteriosclerosis. Policy, polity, and parity.

Duff and his contributions to the pathology of arteriosclerosis have been honored by men who have continued to advance the frontiers of science in these same areas. Still, a man who would so influence others that a society of peers would be set up (the Society of Arteriosclerosis, later to merge with the American Heart Association) would fully understand that from time to time it is necessary f...