Arthur Melzer

Politics at the Turn of the Century

Herausgeber: Weinberger, Jerry; Zinman, Richard M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. The first half of the volume addresses OIdentity PoliticsO and OBig GovernmentO 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780847694464
• ISBN-10: 0847694461
• Artikelnr.: 20956343

Autorenporträt

Arthur Melzer, Richard Zinman, and Jerry Weinberger are directors of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy and professors of political science at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The United States Part 2 Identity Politics Chapter 3 The Left's Lost
Universalism Chapter 4 From Identity Politics to Social Feminism Chapter 5
Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism? Part 6 Big Government
Chapter 7 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State Chapter 8 What Kind
of Government Do We have to Fear? Chapter 9 Liberalism and Big Government:
Tocqueville's Analysis Chapter 10 Big Government and Rights Chapter 11 The
Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government Chapter
12 From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause for Big Government Part 13
The World Chapter 14 Notes on Markets, Politics, and Big Government Chapter
15 The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western Europe
Chapter 16 The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for Perón Chapter 17 Party,
Ideology and the Public World in the Former Soviet Space Chapter 18
Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War India Chapter 19 Left and Right with
Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China
Chapter 20 Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy