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The Prophet of the Powerless
" “Where does one begin thinking about manifestos?” wondered Tom Hayden in the spring of 1962. "
Category: Politics
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Democracy versus the Melting Pot
" It was, I think, an eminent lawyer who, backed by a ripe experience of inequalities before the law, pronounced our Declaration of Independence to be a collection of “glittering generalities.” "
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History, Agency and Political Change
" Many political scientists have turned to historical research as means of clarifying the constraints shaping contemporary political action. "
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Behavioral Support for Opinion Change
" Although attitudes are commonly conceived to be tendencies to specific types of action, the relationship between attitude change and subsequent behavior has been investigated in only a few research studies. "
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The Advent of Direct Government
" The Federal Constitution is in many other respects besides its amending clause a most unsatisfactory instrument for a courageous and thoroughgoing democracy. "
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The Intellectual Origins of Fascism
" The first and second rules of reasoning, as formulated by Newton and repeated by popular physicists down to the present, read as follows... "
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French Colonial Policy
" France, the nation having the second largest colonial empire in the world, is the country bearing the largest responsibility in Africa. "
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Reflections on Violence
" It is, I think, a rather sad reflection on the present state of political science that our language does not distinguish between such key terms as power, strength, force, might, authority, and, finally, violence—all of which refer to distinct phenomena. "
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Aristide Zolberg
New School professor Aristide R. Zolberg, one of the world’s leading voices on the politics, history, and ethics of immigration, (…) served as Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Politics and University in Exile Professor Emeritus at The New School for Social Research. A distinguished political scientist and a preeminent scholar of comparative politics, the history […]