Jon A Shields
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 334558 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jon A Shields |
| NOMBRES | Jon A |
| APELLIDO | Shields |
| FIRMA | SHIELDS J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Claremont McKenna College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4817-4861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How professors teach contentious political issues
This article offers the first empirical study of how professors teach contentious political subjects. Drawing on a database of millions of syllabi, we explore how three such subjects are taught: (1) racial bias in the criminal justice system; (2) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and (3) the ethics of abortion. We find that most professors don’t assign readings that reflect the larger scholarly debate around each issue. This practice may alienate…
Trump
Donald Trump’s victory depended on the defection of hundreds of longstanding Democratic communities. Trump appealed to these communities partly because he behaves like some of their most beloved politicians. Like the president, these politicians are brazen, thin skinned, nepotistic, and offer an older, boss-centered vision of politics. Trump—the anti-establishment outsider—appealed to voters in these communities because he resembles the local ins…
How Catholics and Jews Remade American Politics-and Why We Slight Their Contributions
In 2010 the Supreme Court became composed entirely of Catholics and Jews for the first time in American history, a fact that attracted little attention and even less controversy. Law professor Stephen Wermeil dismissed the development as “insignificant” since “there is no strong perception that there is a Protestant point of view or a Catholic or a Jewish one” on constitutional questions.1Christianity Today was equally dismissive, attributing the…
Secular Faith
In One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe concludes that most of today’s Christians “impose their individualism on their religious beliefs rather than the other way around” (p. 299). In Secular Faith, a smart and provocative history of the American culture wars, Mark Smith argues that there is nothing modern about the tendency Wolfe identifies. Americans, Smith says, have always adjusted their faith for secular reasons, concluding: “Christians have of…
Fighting Liberalism’s Excesses
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Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Religion and American Public Life
In his 2000 best seller Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Civic Community, Robert Putnam analyzed the links between social capital and civic engagement. Lamenting the decline of “civic America,” he called for a Tocquevillean renewal of voluntary association in the United States. In American Grace, Putnam and coauthor David Campbell—who also helped with the preparation of Bowling Alone —return to the analysis of American civil so…
The Politics of Motherhood Revisited
Although abortion has bitterly divided mil lions of Americans for decades, there has hardly been any academic disagreement over the nature of the controversy. A consen sus quickly developed around Kristin Luker's classic study, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, first published in 1984.2 No other work on abortion politics has approached its influence. As of this writing it has been cited over one thousand times, far more than any other essa…
The Demise of Feminist Communitarianism
As second-wave feminism crested in the 1980s, feminist intellectuals began to radically reappraise liberalism by developing a communitarian “ethic of care” that promised to remake American society and politics. The new communitarianism, however, could not be reconciled with feminist defenses of abortion rights. This tension became increasingly untenable in the late 1980s as Roe v. Wade faced new political challenges. Feminist communitarians respo…
Almost Human
Scholars find that political elites are badly polarized over a large range of policy issues, but they tend to agree that the mass public is much more ambivalent. The abortion war in particular is regarded as one in which millions of ambivalent citizens are caught in the crossfire of polarized activists. Yet even abortion activists struggle to escape the very ambivalent sentiments that plague ordinary Americans. These common sentiments even exert …
The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values. But in The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right , Jon Shields argues that religious conservatives have in fact dramatically increased and improved democratic participation and that they are far more civil and reasonable than is commonly believed. Shields interviewed leaders of more than thirty Christian Right organizations, observed movement activists in six American…
Lost in Translation
Abortion and Deliberation
Talisse and Maloney seem to think that professors, not ordinary citizens, are the key to a more deliberative democracy. Yet these professors fail to appreciate the reasonableness of the pro‐life activists and thinkers they disagree with. For example, they falsely charge even the most deliberative groups with resurrecting an obsolete debate and framing conversations in a fallacious way. They further place an unreasonable justificatory burden on pr…
Christian Citizens
The media's attentive vigil over America's most militant and outrageous activists in the abortion wars has obscured a massive but quiet effort on the part of evangelicals to engage their opponents in exemplary deliberative discussions about bioethics. For a variety of reasons, activists in the pro‐life movement are more committed to carving out civic spaces for such dialogue than are their pro‐choice counterparts. This discrepancy invites investi…
Between Passion and Deliberation
The stem cell fight
Spiritual politics on the left
Bioethical politics
Conquering Unemployment
Journal Article Conquering Unemployment: The Case for Economic Growth Get access Conquering Unemployment: The Case for Economic Growth. Edited by JON SHIELDS. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. xii + 258. £3500 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333 47134 2, 0 333 47135 0.)Making The Economy Work. Edited by JON SHIELDS. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. xiv + 290. £35.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0333 47132 6, 0 33347133 4.) Nicholas Rau …
Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Between Passion and Deliberation
Trump
Donald Trump’s victory depended on the defection of hundreds of longstanding Democratic communities. Trump appealed to these communities partly because he behaves like some of their most beloved politicians. Like the president, these politicians are brazen, thin skinned, nepotistic, and offer an older, boss-centered vision of politics. Trump—the anti-establishment outsider—appealed to voters in these communities because he resembles the local ins…
The Politics of Motherhood Revisited
Although abortion has bitterly divided mil lions of Americans for decades, there has hardly been any academic disagreement over the nature of the controversy. A consen sus quickly developed around Kristin Luker's classic study, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, first published in 1984.2 No other work on abortion politics has approached its influence. As of this writing it has been cited over one thousand times, far more than any other essa…
Christian Citizens
The media's attentive vigil over America's most militant and outrageous activists in the abortion wars has obscured a massive but quiet effort on the part of evangelicals to engage their opponents in exemplary deliberative discussions about bioethics. For a variety of reasons, activists in the pro‐life movement are more committed to carving out civic spaces for such dialogue than are their pro‐choice counterparts. This discrepancy invites investi…
Bioethical politics
Fighting Liberalism’s Excesses
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The stem cell fight
Spiritual politics on the left
Conquering Unemployment
Journal Article Conquering Unemployment: The Case for Economic Growth Get access Conquering Unemployment: The Case for Economic Growth. Edited by JON SHIELDS. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. xii + 258. £3500 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333 47134 2, 0 333 47135 0.)Making The Economy Work. Edited by JON SHIELDS. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. xiv + 290. £35.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0333 47132 6, 0 33347133 4.) Nicholas Rau …
Spiritual politics on the left
Bioethical politics
Christian Citizens
The media's attentive vigil over America's most militant and outrageous activists in the abortion wars has obscured a massive but quiet effort on the part of evangelicals to engage their opponents in exemplary deliberative discussions about bioethics. For a variety of reasons, activists in the pro‐life movement are more committed to carving out civic spaces for such dialogue than are their pro‐choice counterparts. This discrepancy invites investi…
Between Passion and Deliberation
The stem cell fight
Abortion and Deliberation
Talisse and Maloney seem to think that professors, not ordinary citizens, are the key to a more deliberative democracy. Yet these professors fail to appreciate the reasonableness of the pro‐life activists and thinkers they disagree with. For example, they falsely charge even the most deliberative groups with resurrecting an obsolete debate and framing conversations in a fallacious way. They further place an unreasonable justificatory burden on pr…
The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values. But in The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right , Jon Shields argues that religious conservatives have in fact dramatically increased and improved democratic participation and that they are far more civil and reasonable than is commonly believed. Shields interviewed leaders of more than thirty Christian Right organizations, observed movement activists in six American…
Lost in Translation
The Demise of Feminist Communitarianism
As second-wave feminism crested in the 1980s, feminist intellectuals began to radically reappraise liberalism by developing a communitarian “ethic of care” that promised to remake American society and politics. The new communitarianism, however, could not be reconciled with feminist defenses of abortion rights. This tension became increasingly untenable in the late 1980s as Roe v. Wade faced new political challenges. Feminist communitarians respo…
Almost Human
Scholars find that political elites are badly polarized over a large range of policy issues, but they tend to agree that the mass public is much more ambivalent. The abortion war in particular is regarded as one in which millions of ambivalent citizens are caught in the crossfire of polarized activists. Yet even abortion activists struggle to escape the very ambivalent sentiments that plague ordinary Americans. These common sentiments even exert …
Religion and American Public Life
In his 2000 best seller Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Civic Community, Robert Putnam analyzed the links between social capital and civic engagement. Lamenting the decline of “civic America,” he called for a Tocquevillean renewal of voluntary association in the United States. In American Grace, Putnam and coauthor David Campbell—who also helped with the preparation of Bowling Alone —return to the analysis of American civil so…
The Politics of Motherhood Revisited
Although abortion has bitterly divided mil lions of Americans for decades, there has hardly been any academic disagreement over the nature of the controversy. A consen sus quickly developed around Kristin Luker's classic study, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, first published in 1984.2 No other work on abortion politics has approached its influence. As of this writing it has been cited over one thousand times, far more than any other essa…
Fighting Liberalism’s Excesses
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Secular Faith
In One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe concludes that most of today’s Christians “impose their individualism on their religious beliefs rather than the other way around” (p. 299). In Secular Faith, a smart and provocative history of the American culture wars, Mark Smith argues that there is nothing modern about the tendency Wolfe identifies. Americans, Smith says, have always adjusted their faith for secular reasons, concluding: “Christians have of…
How Catholics and Jews Remade American Politics-and Why We Slight Their Contributions
In 2010 the Supreme Court became composed entirely of Catholics and Jews for the first time in American history, a fact that attracted little attention and even less controversy. Law professor Stephen Wermeil dismissed the development as “insignificant” since “there is no strong perception that there is a Protestant point of view or a Catholic or a Jewish one” on constitutional questions.1Christianity Today was equally dismissive, attributing the…
Trump
Donald Trump’s victory depended on the defection of hundreds of longstanding Democratic communities. Trump appealed to these communities partly because he behaves like some of their most beloved politicians. Like the president, these politicians are brazen, thin skinned, nepotistic, and offer an older, boss-centered vision of politics. Trump—the anti-establishment outsider—appealed to voters in these communities because he resembles the local ins…
How professors teach contentious political issues
This article offers the first empirical study of how professors teach contentious political subjects. Drawing on a database of millions of syllabi, we explore how three such subjects are taught: (1) racial bias in the criminal justice system; (2) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and (3) the ethics of abortion. We find that most professors don’t assign readings that reflect the larger scholarly debate around each issue. This practice may alienate…
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