Hanging Together
Title | Hanging Together PDF eBook |
Author | Eric W. Cheng |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2022-07-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1009185756 |
Difference and disagreement can be valuable, yet they can also spiral out of control and damage liberal democracy. Advancing a metaphor of citizenship that the author terms 'role-based constitutional fellowship,' this book offers a solution to this challenge. Cheng argues that a series of 'divisions of labor' among citizens, differently situated, can help cultivate the foundational trust required to harness the benefits of disagreement and difference while preventing them from 'overheating' and, in turn, from leaving liberal democracy vulnerable to the growing influence of autocratic political forces. The book recognizes, however, that it is not always appropriate to attempt to cultivate trust, and acknowledges the important role that some forms of confrontation might play in identifying and rectifying undue social hierarchies, such as racial-ethnic hierarchies. Hanging Together thereby works to pave a middle way between deliberative and realist conceptions of democracy.
Hanging Together
Title | Hanging Together PDF eBook |
Author | John Higham |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300129823 |
This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 908 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Atlases |
ISBN |
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901)
Title | A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901) PDF eBook |
Author | James Augustus Henry Murray |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1152 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith
Title | The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 868 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Atlases |
ISBN |
Hanging Together
Title | Hanging Together PDF eBook |
Author | Eric W. Cheng |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2022-07-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1009179284 |
Advances a metaphor of democratic citizenship, 'role-based constitutional fellowship,' to address challenges of difference and disagreement.