Abstract An attractive form of social stability is realized when the members a well-ordered society give that society’s organizing principles their free and reflective endorsement. However, many political philosophers are skeptical there any requirement to show would engender this kind stability. This skepticism at root number objections liberalism, since arguments for liberalism often appeal i...

Party identification and core political values are central elements in the political belief systems of ordinary citizens. Are these predispositions related to one another? Does party identification influence core political values or are partisan identities grounded in such values? This article draws upon theoretical works on partisan information processing and value-based reasoning to derive co...

This paper asks whether political competition has played a role in moderating the governance issues that arise in relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the state: financial stability, long run size and short run interventions into the private economy, particularly with respect to the business cycle. The distinctiv...