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...

In spring 2010 the Commission will issue its most recent Communication on social dialogues focusing this time exclusively on sectoral social dialogues (SSD). We take this official declaration of political plans and outline of future procedural structuring as the opportunity to elaborate on more recent developments and perspectives with a focus on sectoral social dialogues. In other words, where...

Disadvantaged groups gain advantages from descriptive representation in at least four contexts. In contexts of group mistrust and uncrystallized interests, the better communication and experiential knowledge of descriptive representatives enhances their substantive representation of the group's interests by improving the quality of deliberation. In contexts of historical political subordination...

The Home Box Office’s series The Wire (2002–2008) provides an informed critique of the decline of the democratic American ideal of the ‘city upon a hill’. From its inception as a police procedural, it expanded its interests across the dystopian city of Baltimore to consider the linkage between drug crimes, policing, the collapse of blue-collar life, social deprivation, institutional compromise,...

This paper deals with the relation between a county’s type of polity, its duration, and its growth rate. Results indicate that, over time, as regimes grow older, long-standing democratic regimes are relatively more successful than autocracies with the same history of duration. The relation found does not seem to be driven by older, wellestablished democracies nor by any particular income group....

One main reason the Great Society never took of} was that its programs were not buttressed by a thorough bargaining process with the appropriate interests. While innovative programs can be "sold" to the voters, a consensus among the myriad interest groups and publics that comprise the American polity. such as supported federal aid to education. is vital if they are to survive. To this end. a me...

There are several reasonable conceptions of liberalism. A liberal polity can survive a measure of disagreement over just what constitutes liberalism. In part, this is because of the way a liberal order makes possible a dynamic, heterogeneous civil society and how that, in turn, can supply participants with reasons to support a liberal political order. Despite the different conceptions of justic...

Aharon Kempinski and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier excavated Tel Kabri, in the western Galilee region of Israel (fig. 1), in the late 1980s and early 1990s (Kempinski, Scheftelowitz, and Oren 2002). They found that during the Middle Bronze Age (MB) II period (ca. 1750–1600 b.c.) the site had been the center of a strong coastal polity. In size and importance, it may have been second only to Hazor in th...

In republican political philosophy, citizenship is a status that constituted by one’s participation in the public life of polity. its traditional formulation, an exclusionary and hierarchical way defining polity’s membership, because domain activity qualifies as participating highly restricted. I argue Black American abolitionist Frederick Douglass advances radically inclusive conception articu...

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...