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Politics at the turn of the century / edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman.
Van Pelt Library JK271 .P55897 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- World politics.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]
- Summary:
- With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political future as we approach a new millenium.
- The first half of the volume addresses "Identity Politics" and "Big Government'' and their respective places in the shaping of the United States political environment since the end of the Cold-War. The second half of the volume focuses on the political climate in Western Europe, Russia, India, and China.
- Contents:
- Part I The United States
- Identity Politics
- 1 The Left's Lost Universalism / Todd Gitlin 3
- 2 From Identity Politics to Social Feminism / Seyla Benhabib 27
- 3 Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism? / Alan Wolfe 42
- Big Government
- 4 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State / Alan Brinkley 60
- 5 What Kind of Government Do We Have to Fear? / James W. Ceaser 76
- 6 Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville's Analysis / Harvey C. Mansfield, Delba Winthrop 102
- 7 Big Government and Rights / Michael Zuckert 123
- 8 The Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government / Paul Pierson 140
- 9 From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause of Big Government / Richard A. Epstein 162
- Part II The World
- 10 Notes on Markets, Politics, and "Big Government" / Claus Offe 181
- 11 The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western Europe / John Dunn 192
- 12 The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for Peron / Vladimir Tismaneanu 209
- 13 Party, Ideology, and the Public World in the Former Soviet Space / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 236
- 14 Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War India / Atul Kohli, Pratap B. Mehta 280
- 15 Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China / Andrew J. Nathan, Tianjian Shi 299
- 16 Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy / T. J. Pempel 326.
- Notes:
- Fifth volume of essays to be published by the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847694453
- 0847694461
- OCLC:
- 45325152
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