Most Recent Articles from Polity

• Race, party, and contested elections to the U.S. House of Representatives *. 

  Recent studies of contested elections in the House have pointed to party electoral goals as motivating their resolution in Congress. However,...

  04/01/07 by Green, Matthew N. · More from publication

• The economy and its relation to politics: Robert Dahl, neoclassical economics, and democracy *.(Critical essay) 

  Despite the unfortunate tendency of some political scientists to theorize and to examine political phenomena with little reference to economic...

  04/01/07 by Swanson, Jacinda · More from publication

• A floor without a ceiling: balancing normative and strategic goals in policy design *. 

  This article considers the relationship between policy design and the pattern of interests attracted to the political arena. It examines...

  04/01/07 by Reno, B. Jeffrey · More from publication

• The ethics and politics of dwelling *. 

  Emmanuel Levinas argues that Heidegger's ontology, and the ethics it entails, fall short because while Dasein relates to the Other as being, Dasein...

  04/01/07 by Dungey, Nicholas · More from publication

• A more neutral liberal education: why not only liberals, but religious conservatives should endorse comparative religious education in public schools. 

  If we value religious tolerance and autonomy, we must breach the silence about religion in public schools, and add a comparative religious...

  04/01/07 by Lester, Emile · More from publication

• Race, inequality, and liberal democracy *.(Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy)(Race and the Making of American Liberalism)(Why Race Matters in South Africa)(Book review) 

  Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Carol A....

  04/01/07 by Gelbman, Shamira M. · More from publication

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