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...Toby S. James Abstract This article presents an alternative general model of democracy to traditional minimalist (electoral and liberal) and deliberative theories by drawing from critical realist philosophical thought. Realist or real democracy is proposed as a societal system where preconditions...

... critiques of other typologies of celebrity humanitarianism, as well as further research into the underlying effects and catalysts for celebrity humanitarianism. SANDRA VIA Ferrum College, USA © 2013 Sandra Via httpdx.doi.org/l 0.1 080/07393148.2013.813708 Michael A. Lebowitz, The Contradictions of Real...

...Thad Williamson New Political Science, Volume 34, Number 3, September 2012 Sytnposiutn Engaging Etnancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: A Sytnposiutn on Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias Thad Williamson, Guest Editor Contributors: Craig Borowiak Haverford College, USA Mark J...

... Saccarelli, David Samuels and Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo. © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 Nezu Political Science/ Volunze 32/ Number 3/ September 2010 Marx and Engels's Electoral Strategy: The Alleged versus the Real August H. Nimtz University of Minnesota, USA Abstract In a recently...

... in American society were being articulated. Responses to these forces varied from neighborhood to neighborhood. Among the responses were groups organized around community development, particularly to fight urban renewal projects. In this essay, I examine a year in the life of the East Harlem Real Great...

...Kris F. Sealey Abstract This paper offers South geographies as real-world activations of “Wakanda” zones, zones at the edges of Empire. It offers Southern black expressive cultures (specifically, the Global South nation of Trinidad) as Afrofurtural in their capacities for articulating new...

... for a public sociology and public anthropology as well as dissonant movements in economics and related fields have added to the insistence that social science research was too often disconnected from the real world. Phronetic social science has emerged out of the ferment for change in the social sciences...

...Leo Panitch Abstract Erick Olin Wright’s Real Utopias Project was concerned to establish the intellectual grounds for an open-ended politics that was still inspired by the goal of replacing capitalist systems by socialist ones.Conceived when ‘civil society’ was still all the fashion, its emphasis...

... that it is less far-fetched than it may initially appear to be. In Dworkinian terminology, everyone is entitled to equal concern and respect under the Constitution. Judges can read its abstract language morally when they decide real constitutional cases to make the country more just. In egalitarian liberalism...

... play, Betrayed. Through their analysis, they make two key arguments about the democratic potential of theater. First, that theater has the potential to sidestep political censorship during a time of war. And second, that theater can give voice to a multitude of real characters and under-represented...

...Charles Tien Abstract In this article, the question I answer is why did so many white women vote for Donald Trump? I reexamine the gender gap in voting to answer this question and to better understand the 2016 election results. The gender gap in voting and party identification is a real political...

... culture. Cumulatively, the cultural place of the militia is one of self-described individualists struggling against cultural opponents—the representatives of the New World Order. As Americans, militia members insist that only their specific brand of individualism is “real” Americanism. Thus their disputes...

... on the theories of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard, this article argues that the investiture of authority in celebrities represents a continuation of the trend by which social bodies operate as the site where relations of power are played out, and by which the media serve as a means in which real democracy...

... with care, democracy simply requires fairness in distribution of politically relevant resources. The Supreme Court has erred in not reading the Constitution as mandating political equality as a fundamental right, and also in not incorporating real political equality as a compelling state interest. Therefore...

..., and real estate increasingly functions as an investment opportunity, causing housing prices to skyrocket. The resulting political-economic crisis dynamic constitutes fruitful ground for populist opposition voices. Adopting Ernesto Laclau’s framework, the article analyzes the 2021 election programs of three...

...Stacy Clifford Simplican Abstract In Harris v. Quinn (2014), the United States Supreme Court used disability rights rhetoric of independence and control to argue that disabled people—not the State—are the real employers of in-home care workers. Consequently, the State cannot force care workers...

...Robert E. Stein Abstract Peter Matthiessen’s novel Shadow Country offers a fictionalized account of the life of real-life character Edgar Watson. Matthiessen’s portrayal illustrates Jack Turner’s argument in Awakening to Race that atomistic individualism both justifies an individual’s success...

.... But does this mean that democracy has succeeded in Africa? Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba of the University of Dar-es-Saalam and CODESRIA argues that embracing Western paradigms in an unthinking fashion will not bring real democracy, i.e. people’s liberation. He advances criticisms of party politics and statism...

...Margaret Morganroth Gullette Abstract Ageism directed at those in their middle years— middle ageism is being given teeth by midlife downsizing, drops in real income and workforce participation, substandard employment, hiring discrimination, and court decisions that weaken age anti-discrimination...

... for the Black Panther Party more rhetorical than real. While several members of the Black Panther Party and other African American radicals were granted asylum in Cuba, their political activities were severely restricted. Among this group, then, disillusionment set in as to the revolutionary sincerity...