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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJohn Rawls has published 'Political Liberalism,' which develops a political analysis of justice in contrast to the moral focus of his earlier 'Theory of Justice.' Rawls attempts to account for pluralism in his new work...
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From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the twentieth century, religious and political liberalism have generally been congruent, as were religious and political conservatism, along the dimension of universalism and particularism. In recent years the...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 188)A subscriber who ran out of summer reading material resorted in desperation to In Search of Canadian Liberalism by Frank Underhill (1960), where he found this intervention by Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere in the 1865...
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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE, absolutist monarchy in premodern Europe, and the European conquest of the New World strike us, from our contemporary perspective, as injustices on a massive scale. People were not merely...
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From:Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political TheoryPeer-ReviewedLiberalism is associated by many with the protection of private property and the insulation of economic markets from state intervention. Yet the liberal tradition is very diverse, and some have taken its concern with...
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From:Capital & Class (Issue 92) Peer-ReviewedThis article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international...
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From:Social Theory and Practice (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLiberalism's Conflated Commitment Individuals have differing overall conceptions of their good. Ordinarily they determine their own conceptions. Ordinarily they make these determinations on their own, perhaps with...
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From:Policy Review (Issue 125) Peer-ReviewedTHE MIDDLE EAST IS, according to Freedom House, the least free region on the globe. It resisted even the third wave of democratization that swept through Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe during the 1980s and...
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From:International Organization (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAre forceful security guarantees necessary to resolve civil wars? Drawing on realist insights, Barbara Walter argues that insecurity is "the critical barrier to civil war settlement" and that security guarantees are a...
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From:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT/RESUME Speech act theory and impression management are used as the analytical bases for declaring that utterances of a public official in Canada are racist. The exploration is applied to language emanating...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 92, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBy Steven B. Smith. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 288p. $30.00. George M. Gross, Temple University Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was a major figure in the formation of liberal political...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe proliferation of research on employment and industrial relations in Latin America was engendered by the region's shift from import-substitution industries into a predominantly export-oriented economy in the 1980s....
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 274)In 1929, Benito Mussolini gave a speech to the Italian Chamber of Deputies. His purpose was to present the Lateran Accords that regulated relations between the Italian state and the Catholic Church. With Catholicism's...
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From:Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRecently several political theorists have argued that mainstream political theory, exemplified by John Rawls' political liberalism, is based on such idealist and moralist presuppositions, that it cannot be relevant for...
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From:Academic Questions (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Oakley Beahrs 1 Author Affiliations: (Aff1) 0000 0000 9758 5690, grid.5288.7, Oregon Health and Science University, , Portland, OR, USA Liberal education and democracy go hand in hand, as...
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From:Higher Education (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines perceptions by academics of their work in the Australian state of Victoria, and places such perceptions within the context of international and Australian debates on the academic profession. A 2010...
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From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 24, Issue 3)SOMEONE MAKES A PUBLIC COMMENT OUT OF LINE with progressive opinion. Enforcers of such opinion promptly descend on the offender online, pelting him or her with abusive slogans in the name of justice. The offender...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA singular focus on the formal institutional reforms and economic variables misses the mark when it comes to explaining the decreasing support for liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. This article suggests...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5721)Written at the rate of one a decade, as spiritually at home in the mundane English 1950s as in the fractured world of post-glasnost Mitteleuropa, Malcolm Bradbury's half-dozen novels have a unity that transcends their...