Politics at the Turn of the Century

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.

• Part 1 The United StatesPart 2 Identity PoliticsChapter 3 The Left's Lost UniversalismChapter 4 From Identity Politics to Social FeminismChapter 5 Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism?Part 6 Big GovernmentChapter 7 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the StateChapter 8 What Kind of Government Do We have to Fear?Chapter 9 Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville's AnalysisChapter 10 Big Government and RightsChapter 11 The Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big GovernmentChapter 12 From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause for Big GovernmentPart 13 The WorldChapter 14 Notes on Markets, Politics, and Big GovernmentChapter 15 The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western EuropeChapter 16 The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for PerónChapter 17 Party, Ideology and the Public World in the Former Soviet SpaceChapter 18 Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War IndiaChapter 19 Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's ChinaChapter 20 Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy

The editors have brought together some highly respected academics and produced a thorough and incisive review of two central philosophical and political problems facing the USA and, to a lesser extent, the wider world today.