Politics at the Turn of the Century

by Melzer, Arthur M.; Zinman, M. Richard; Weinberger, Jerry; Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy

• ISBN13: 9780847694457
• ISBN10: 0847694453
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Arthur M. Melzer
Jerry Weinberger
M. Richard Zinman
Part I: The United States
Identity Politics
The Left's Lost Universalism	3	(24)
Todd Gitlin
From Identity Politics to Social Feminism	27	(15)
Seyla Benhabib
Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism?	42	(18)
Alan Wolfe
Big Government
The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State	60	(16)
Alan Brinkley
What Kind of Government Do We Have to Fear?	76	(26)
James W. Ceaser
Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville's Analysis	102	(21)
Harvey C. Mansfield
Delba Winthrop
Big Government and Rights	123	(17)
Michael Zuckert
The Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government	140	(22)
Paul Pierson
From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause of Big Government	162	(19)
Richard A. Epstein
Part II: The World
Notes on Markets, Politics, and ``Big Government''	181	(11)
Claus Offe
The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western Europe	192	(17)
John Dunn
The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for Peron	209	(27)
Vladimir Tismaneanu
Party, Ideology, and the Public World in the Former Soviet Space	236	(44)
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr.
Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War India	280	(19)
Atul Kohli
Pratap B. Mehta
Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China	299	(27)
Andrew J. Nathan
Tianjian Shi
Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy	326	(28)
T. J. Pempel
Index	354	(12)
About the Contributors	366