Donald Alexander Downs

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Downs begins by analyzing the nature and evolution of the problem, and discusses how these betrayals of liberty have harmed the truth seeking mission of universities. Rather than promoting equal respect and tolerance of diversity, policies restricting academic freedom and civil liberty have proved divisive, and have compromised the robust exchange of ideas that is a necessary condition of a meaningful education. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs presents four case studies that illustrate the difference that conscientious political resistance and mobilization of faculty and students can make. Such movements have brought about unexpected success in renewing the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty at universities where they have been active.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511252792
• Artikelnr.: 38194521

Autorenporträt

Donald Alexander Downs Is Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written four previous books, including Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment, winner of the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award and The New Politics of Pornography, winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association. Professor Downs has also published extensively in leading journals, encyclopedias and professional books, lectured throughout the US and in England and Scotland, and made numerous media appearances on radio and television to discuss issues of American politics and law.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. The return of the proprietary
university and the new politics of free speech and civil liberty; 2.
Background: the rise of anti-free speech and liberty ideologies; Part II.
Case Studies in the Politics of Civil Liberty on Campus: 3. Columbia's
sexual misconduct policy: civil liberty vs. solidarity; 4. Berkeley and the
rise of the anti-free speech movement; 5. Undue process at Penn; 6.
Renewal: the rise of the free speech movement at Wisconsin; 7. Abolition in
the Wisconsin faculty senate and its aftermath; 8. Some conclusions
concerning civil liberty and political strategy.