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Marc Bühlmann Wolfgang Merkel Lisa Müller Bernhard Weßels 《Politische Vierteljahresschrift》2008,49(1):114-122
Ohne Zusammenfassung
* Die vier Autor(inn)en arbeiten in einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt des NCCR Democracy (vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds
finanziertes National Centre of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century) und des WZB an einem „Demokratiebarometer“ für die 30 OECD-Staaten, das die Ignoranz der 0-Varianz bei Polity und Freedom House aufkl?ren will.
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Marc Bühlmann (Corresponding author)Email: |
Wolfgang MerkelEmail: |
Lisa MüllerEmail: |
Bernhard We?elsEmail: |
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Sandall’s complaint that the Enlightenment is in danger is not new as it repeats a long standing complaint about “the betrayal
of the intellectuals”. But the danger today is not from either the Muslim world or from the marginalized academics who pursue
an anti-liberal multicultural agenda that belittles the Western liberal tradition. In the United States the menace comes from
the much more powerful far right that has abandoned America’s Enlightenment tradition. It is time for academics to start teaching
students what that tradition is all about, and why it needs to be defended, but spreading fear about weak and divided Muslim
societies is not the way.
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Daniel ChirotEmail: |
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Robert L. Jackson 《Society》2008,45(1):20-29
Over the past year, several published volumes have argued that American politics is careening out of control, toward a slippery
slope of twenty-first century theocracy. Most of these books present tendentious interpretations of contemporary politics
as matter-of-fact analysis. The reader is assumed to hold the same interpretive bias and warned of the dangers of a new and
powerful American “fundamentalism.” The current article explores a historical parallel to today’s trend. Nearly a century
ago, the Progressive Education movement sought to undermine the pedagogical dominance of traditional, literature-based education,
preferring a more socially-conscious curriculum. The striking similarities between John Dewey’s anti-traditional approach
and the present-day anti-theocracy faction are multitude—and worth our consideration. The seeds of Progressive Education are
now producing weeds of anti-religious sentiment across America’s political landscape—a cultural phenomena that is constricting
the growth of a much needed civil discourse.
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Robert L. JacksonEmail: |
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Based on examples of socialist heroes from East German schoolbooks and teaching guides designed for elementary school, this
essay examines the role of state ideology in primary education. It assesses the German curriculum of the now-defunct German
Democratic Republic (GDR) and illuminates distinctions between civic education and political propaganda. It also shows how
the curricular emphasis on socialist virtue helped to form “the socialist personality.”
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John RoddenEmail: |
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Charlotta Stern 《Society》2009,46(2):110-118
Historically, European economists, compared to their American counterpart, were more involved in public discussions of policy.
In this paper it is argued that this has likely changed. The chief reasons seem to involve the European imitation of the academic
ethos that is more prevalent in America. Features of this academic ethos include a more formalist orientation in graduate
programs and an academic incentive system wherein professional journal publication is paramount and public discourse is relatively
devalued. I suggest there is an inescapable ideological dilemma in addressing the costs and benefits of professors’ neglect
of public discourse. The ideological character of academics compared with our own political sensibilities affect whether we
want academics to influence public discourse or not. I use the history of academics as public intellectuals in Sweden to substantiate
the change, and I use new data on Swedish social science academics to see whether those who participate in public discourse
tend to have certain political and social views.
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Charlotta SternEmail: |
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Dennis T. Avery 《Society》2007,44(6):137-143
High-yield farming—more agricultural output per acre of farmland—has been a boon to mankind and to nature. If today’s agricultural
efficiency was the same as in the 1950s, the world would need three times the cropland to produce today’s food supply. That
would mean that 15-16 million mi2 of forest would have been destroyed—all the global forest area available today. Rising population and increased affluence
will require a tripling of agricultural efficiency in the next 50 years if we are to protect wildlife at the same time. More
investment in agricultural research and education will be required, but this is what produced the previous green revolution.
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Dennis T. AveryEmail: |
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Luis E. Lugo 《Society》2007,44(6):109-112
Americans are not as religiously divided on foreign policy questions as they are over such hot-button, culture war domestic
issues as abortion and gay marriage. Nevertheless, surveys suggest that Americans’ attitudes on several foreign policy fronts
are consistent with a religious worldview. This analysis draws primarily on the findings of various PRC polls to examine the
relationship between religion and three areas of foreign policy: the role of the USA in the world; the nature of international
obligations; and the morality of war.
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Luis E. LugoEmail: |
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In 1935 Harold D. Lasswell introduced constructs of the world revolution to improve the rational selection of topics and timing
for policy research. This article reviews and updates his construct of the skill revolution arising from the differentiation
of specialized environments in modern society, including three variants: the garrison-state construct, the permanent revolution
of modernizing intellectuals, and the unspeakable revolution. Among transformations of the skill revolution facilitated by
the growing interdependence of modern society, or globalization, are contending fundamentalist and cosmopolitan revolutions.
A Gnostic revolution of declining faith in Western civilization is also possible. This article concludes with a preferential
construct tracing a possible sequence of events leading toward a world order of peace, welfare and social justice.
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Ronald D. BrunnerEmail: |
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A consensus now exists that secularization theory can no longer explain the worldwide persistence and spread of modern religious
movements, with the exception of western and central Europe as well as intellectuals in general. This essay examines how these
new religious forces have taken root in economic development and how that development has been shaped by those same forces.
An assessment is made of Max Weber’s famous thesis in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The article concludes with five major observations about religion and development in the modern world.
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Peter L. BergerEmail: |
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Bob McKercher 《Society》2008,45(4):345-347
The unique characteristics of the first generation tourists and the nature of their interactions with the host community leads
to the formation of enduring stereotypes. The first wave of mass tourists sees themselves as innovators, worldly, outward looking, risk takers who are different and somehow better than other members of society. Yet, in reality,
they are relative latecomers to the world of international tourism, causing members of the receiving community to perceive
them as laggards, inward looking individuals who are culturally and socially introverted, unworldly and resistant to change. The situation
is exacerbated by package tour participation which is the typical way any new markets begins to travel. Unfortunately, packages
produce a highly mediated experience between host and guest that intensify the sense of outsidedness felt by each group, which
in turn create stereotypes.
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Bob McKercherEmail: |
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Robert Dingwall 《Society》2009,46(3):247-249
‘Social precognition’ is the forerunner of new developments in science and technology such as extended life or immortality.
While life-extension may have been neglected by philosophers or social scientists, it has been explored in depth by creative
writers. They underline the threat of new kinds of inequality and of the conservatism of a society that protects the interests
of the long-lived. They also question the quality of a longer life as likely to be lonely and empty rather than wise, peaceful
and fulfilled.
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Robert DingwallEmail: |
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This paper argues that the views of Charles Taylor on justice in income and wealth distribution are fallacious, especially
in regard to issues such as private property rights, justice, human rights, and theft. As to this last point, Taylor maintains
it is possible, under certain circumstances, to “legitimately steal.” We regard this as a philosophical howler of the first
order. We also demur from his contention that equity and equality can be used as synonyms.
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Walter BlockEmail: |
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Joanna R. Quinn 《Human Rights Review》2009,10(1):55-71
Getting to peace is not a straightforward process. In Uganda, internal conflict has raged for more than 20 years between the
Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The construction of a comprehensive negotiated settlement is at the mercy of conflicting
ideologies and influences at the international, national and grassroots levels. This paper examines the Juba peace talks,
the major actors in the negotiation process, and tension between prosecution and amnesty.
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Joanna R. QuinnEmail: |
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The American experience in organ transplantation illuminates the attitudes and practices that underlie the ongoing failure
to establish a national health insurance system. In both spheres, the public makes a sharp divide between the well-being of
intimates and the well-being of strangers. Private and public duties remain distinct; obligations recognized on a personal
level do not expand public commitments. As a result, individuals must shift for themselves, whether they require an organ
donor or a doctor. In the world of transplantation as in the world of health care more generally, we are all on our own.
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David J. RothmanEmail: |
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This paper presents recent events including the Danish cartoon crisis occasion—a re-examination of John Stuart Mill’s argument
for freedom of expression. Despite the appeal of liberalism, Mill’s philosophy had from the start been subject to intense
criticism. The rise of political Islam opens a new phase in the debate; the difficulties pointed out by Mill’s critics are
indicative of the obstacles that liberalism still faces.
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Thomas E. SchneiderEmail: |
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Mick Green 《Policy Sciences》2007,40(1):55-71
Since the election in 1997 of a New Labour Government in the United Kingdom, a growing number of analyses have provided insights
into, and critiques of, what has been termed the “social investment state”. To date, these analyses have interrogated particular
developments and distinct issues in a number of key social welfare policy-related sectors, including education, citizenship,
the family, and poverty/employment. Notable by its absence, however, is the contribution that policies for sport and physical
activity are now playing in the realisation of New Labour’s social investment strategies. This article therefore interrogates
and registers the growing salience of sport policy interventions for the construction of a social investment state within
the broader political context of governing under “advanced liberal” rationalities. The “active citizen”, and children and
young people, in particular, are valorised and appear centre-stage as the focus for these interventions. This child-centred
focus is problematised, as is the argument that, under prevailing political rationalities of advanced liberalism, government
“steers” rather than “rows” and “enables” rather than “commands”. Under these conditions, while children are deemed deserving
of investment, there may be other groups who are deemed less deserving, for example, older people who, unlike children and
young people have little currency in a future-oriented world.
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Mick GreenEmail: |
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The authors comment on an earlier aritice in Society by Eugene Goodheart and offer a novel hypothesis about the origins of
religion.
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Lionel Tiger (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Stephen J. Caldas 《Society》2008,45(1):30-34
This article scrutinizes the inconsistencies in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court decision which upheld the University
of Michigan’s law school affirmative action policy. The decision, which now governs university admissions policies in all
50 states, ruled that “diversity” remains a compelling state interest that legally justifies discriminating between individuals
on the basis of their race in determining college admissions. This article examines two incongruous justifications offered
by the Grutter court in justification for their ruling: the “critical mass” justification and the no “undo harm” argument.
Neither rationale is able to withstand careful, logical examination.
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Stephen J. CaldasEmail: |
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Large segments of the Muslim world are experiencing a radical return to ancient doctrine, not a reformation. Unlike Christianity
with a separation of legal structures from religious dogma, many groups within the Islamic world are moving toward the imposition
of severe Islamic law (Sharia) while theology as understood in the West is blocked. Simultaneously the issuance of Islamic
religious injunctions (fatwas) is becoming more arbitary and unregulated.
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Toby E. HuffEmail: |