Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 11897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berman |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2960-3660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1397 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The Future of Multiracial Democracy: Democracy and Diversity in Western Europe
In a democracy, it is the job of political parties to respond to the needs and demands of citizens. Yet for decades while migration was transforming West European countries, mainstream parties did not address these changes or grapple with their far-reaching social and economic consequences. This created a gap between many citizens' preferences and the appeals and policies offered by mainstream parties. Such "representation gaps" can disrupt party…
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years, dictatorship rather than democracy had been the norm. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time. But by the beginning of the twenty-first century the story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies were bac…
The Cost of Convergence
Much recent discussion about democratic dysfunction has focused on polarization. In Europe, however, it is not so much polarization and partisanship that have led to democratic decay and the rise of populism, but rather party convergence and diminishing partisanship. The clearest and most consequential example of this dynamic occurred in Germany, where the main center-left and center-right parties moved to the center. This article argues that pol…
The Causes of Populism in the West
The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging intellectual exchange among political scientists, economists, and sociologists. A good way to get a handle on what is now a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary literature is to focus on the key debates characterizing it. This article reviews the literature on the causes of populism, and …
Response to Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson’s Review of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
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Populism is a Symptom Rather than a Cause: Democratic Disconnect, the Decline of the Center-Left, and the Rise of Populism in Western Europe
Populism is best understood as a symptom of growing dissatisfaction with democracy, which emerges when citizens believe that political institutions are unwilling or unable to respond to their needs and demands. In democracies, unlike in dictatorships, dissatisfied citizens can express their dissatisfaction by voting to change their leaders and governments. But if citizens believe their votes do not matter—if their leaders and governments do not r…
Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy
Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important was the left's shift to the center on economic issues during the late twentieth century. Although this shift made some sense in the short-term, over the long-term it had deleterious, perhaps even fatal, consequences: It watered down the left's distinctive historica…
Against the Technocrats
Over the past few years concerns about "unchecked" democracy and rule by the people have exploded—but such concerns have been around as long as democracy itself. While concerns about illiberalism, populism, and majoritarianism are certainly well-founded, blaming such phenomena on an "excess" of democracy is not. Such arguments rest on a fundamental misunderstanding of how liberal democracy has historically developed and how liberalism and democra…
A Discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die
Among the many scholarly attempts to reckon with the causes and consequences of Donald Trump’s rise, few have attracted popular attention on the scale of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. Seldom do books by political scientists make it onto the New York Times best sellers list, but this one has, a testament to its broad influence. Levitsky and Ziblatt situate Trumpism within a broader comparative and historical context in …
The Pipe Dream of Undemocratic Liberalism
Over the past decade illiberal democracy has spread across the globe. Many analysts argue that democracy itself is to blame. Democracy is all about empowering the people, but, according to this line of argument, the people can be moved by passions and self-interest, and their unchecked rule can lead to tyrannical majoritarianism. While illiberal democracy is certainly worrying, many of its critics fundamentally misunderstand how democracy has tra…
Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America Since the Revolutions of 1848 by Kurt Weyland (review)
The Lost Left
European democracies are going through what may be their most difficult period since the Great Depression. Europe’s mess can be traced to a number of distinct causes, but one that has been largely undervalued is the decline of the center- or social democratic left. This decline has hurt European democracy both directly, as many of these parties’ voters have fled to extremist parties, and also indirectly, for these parties played a crucial role cr…
Apsa Committees
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A Discussion of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time By Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson’s Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time is a big book, and it addresses a big theme: the historical significance of the New Deal, as a watershed moment in U.S. political history, as a form of “social democracy, American style” that allowed liberal democracy to prevail in competition with Soviet communism and fascism, and as the “origin” of key features of contemporary politics in the United States. The book is a con…
Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences since “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning, and theState
In the years sincePeterHall's seminal 1993 article “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning and theState” appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the point where it now includes everyone from constructivists to rational choice theorists. This article assesses what we have learned about the role of ideas in political life since “PolicyParadigms” appeared, analyzes how well social scientists have taken up the challenges and ques…
Committees of Apsa
The administrative committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council
European Disintegration: Warnings from History
The irony at the heart of Europe’s current crisis is that although the EU originated as part of a post-1945 effort to consolidate democracy in Western Europe, the Union’s travails are now pushing the continent in the opposite direction instead. Stable democracy is only a product of the post 1945 period in Europe. This article discusses changes that occurred in Europe after the Second World War at both domestic and regional levels and argues that …
Fukuyama’s Grand Vision
Fukuyama’s Grand Vision Sheri Berman (bio) The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 608 pp. With the “Arab Spring” of 2011, the last major regional exception to the “third wave” of global democratization has fallen by the wayside—or has it? The transitions in Tunisia and Egypt (the first two regional “dominoes” to fall) are still in their early stages. In t…
Social Democracy and the Creation of the Public Interest
The Swedish case bears out Lewin's contention, in Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics, that public spiritedness is much more important than is suggested by public-choice theories positing the universal dominance of self-interestedness. However, in Sweden we find that public spiritedness on the part of the public—as evidenced, for example, in sociotropic voting—was cultivated by political institutions, policies, and rhetoric that…
Ideology, History, and Politics
After years of neglect, scholars have once again begun studying the role played by concepts such as ideas, norms, and culture in political life. While this literature has advanced our understanding of political actors and outcomes in critical ways, it is also plagued by a number of problems, one of which is the focus of this chapter: its status quo bias. The chapter presents a reexamination of social democracy as a reminder of the need to analyze…
Unheralded Battle: Capitalism, the Left, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism
The current financial and economic crisis has once again placed the dangers of capitalism at the forefront of our collective consciousness. The left, which until relatively recently had seemed adrift across much of the Western world, lacking in coherent and convincing responses to globalization and neoliberalism, appears once again poised for a comeback, as citizens yearn for stability and security in difficult times. That the left's fortunes sho…
The Primacy of Economics versus the Primacy of Politics: Understanding the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century
The current economic crisis has once again bought debates about capitalism and globalization to the forefront of the political agenda. Until very recently almost everyone seemed to be convinced that the world was at the dawn of a new era. Yet, the issue at the heart of globalization debates—whether political forces can dominate economic ones or must bow before them—is not new at all. I show that many of the great ideological and political battles…
Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons From Europe
A rise in the power of Islamist parties has lent fresh interest to the old question of how revolutionary movements respond to participation in democracy. Pessimists argue that such movements will use any power they gain at the ballot box to subvert democracy, while optimists believe that participation can turn extremists into moderates. The example of 20th century European communist parties shows that political context can trump radical essence, …
How Democracies Emerge: Lessons from Europe
The best way to understand how stable, well-functioning democracies develop is to analyze the political trajectories such countries have actually taken. The political backstory of most democracies includes struggle, conflict, and even violence. Problems and failures can in retrospect often be seen to be integral parts of the long-term processes through which non-democratic institutions, elites, and cultures were delegitimized and eventually elimi…
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. By Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 331p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.In recent years, there has been a surge in work on what has come to be known as “qualitative methods.” The trend is essentially reactive, developing as a response to the outpouring of work on quantitative and formal methods and the assertions by scholars in those areas that case st…
Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Practically everywhere one looks these days the concept of "civil society" is in vogue. Neo-Tocquevillean scholars argue that civil society plays a role in driving political, social, and even economic outcomes. This new conventional wisdom, however, is flawed. It is simply not true that democratic government is always strengthened, not weakened, when it faces a vigorous civil society. This essay shows how a robust civil society helped scuttle the…
The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and Nat…
The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe
The Causes of Populism in the West
The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging intellectual exchange among political scientists, economists, and sociologists. A good way to get a handle on what is now a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary literature is to focus on the key debates characterizing it. This article reviews the literature on the causes of populism, and …
Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis
Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy
Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important was the left's shift to the center on economic issues during the late twentieth century. Although this shift made some sense in the short-term, over the long-term it had deleterious, perhaps even fatal, consequences: It watered down the left's distinctive historica…
Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences since “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning, and theState
In the years sincePeterHall's seminal 1993 article “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning and theState” appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the point where it now includes everyone from constructivists to rational choice theorists. This article assesses what we have learned about the role of ideas in political life since “PolicyParadigms” appeared, analyzes how well social scientists have taken up the challenges and ques…
Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society
Over recent decades, Islamism—the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life—has become a powerful force throughout much of the Muslim world. Through a discussion of the Egyptian case, this essay shows how the rise of Islamism can be illuminated by findings of the literatures on revolution and civil society, and vice versa. As many leading theories on revolutions would predict, the necessary precondition for Isla…
Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons From Europe
A rise in the power of Islamist parties has lent fresh interest to the old question of how revolutionary movements respond to participation in democracy. Pessimists argue that such movements will use any power they gain at the ballot box to subvert democracy, while optimists believe that participation can turn extremists into moderates. The example of 20th century European communist parties shows that political context can trump radical essence, …
Civil Society and Political Institutionalization
As a result of the dramatic events of recent years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to explaining what causes democratization as well as what makes democracies vibrant and successful over the long term. Yet, whereas a generation ago most scholars tackling these issues stressed economic, political, or institutional factors, today societal and cultural variables are in vogue. This article argues that examining societal and cultu…
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. By Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 331p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.In recent years, there has been a surge in work on what has come to be known as “qualitative methods.” The trend is essentially reactive, developing as a response to the outpouring of work on quantitative and formal methods and the assertions by scholars in those areas that case st…
How Democracies Emerge: Lessons from Europe
The best way to understand how stable, well-functioning democracies develop is to analyze the political trajectories such countries have actually taken. The political backstory of most democracies includes struggle, conflict, and even violence. Problems and failures can in retrospect often be seen to be integral parts of the long-term processes through which non-democratic institutions, elites, and cultures were delegitimized and eventually elimi…
The Pipe Dream of Undemocratic Liberalism
Over the past decade illiberal democracy has spread across the globe. Many analysts argue that democracy itself is to blame. Democracy is all about empowering the people, but, according to this line of argument, the people can be moved by passions and self-interest, and their unchecked rule can lead to tyrannical majoritarianism. While illiberal democracy is certainly worrying, many of its critics fundamentally misunderstand how democracy has tra…
Path Dependency and Political Action: Reexamining Responses to the Depression
Populism is a Symptom Rather than a Cause: Democratic Disconnect, the Decline of the Center-Left, and the Rise of Populism in Western Europe
Populism is best understood as a symptom of growing dissatisfaction with democracy, which emerges when citizens believe that political institutions are unwilling or unable to respond to their needs and demands. In democracies, unlike in dictatorships, dissatisfied citizens can express their dissatisfaction by voting to change their leaders and governments. But if citizens believe their votes do not matter—if their leaders and governments do not r…
Modernization in Historical Perspective: The Case of Imperial Germany
In recent years historical research on Imperial Germany has called into question traditional interpretations of this case at the same time that political science research on the “third wave” has transformed the study of political development. This article argues that combining the insights of these two literatures offers benefits to both. For historians, the exercise provides a fresh perspective on the purported distinctiveness of Imperial German…
The Cost of Convergence
Much recent discussion about democratic dysfunction has focused on polarization. In Europe, however, it is not so much polarization and partisanship that have led to democratic decay and the rise of populism, but rather party convergence and diminishing partisanship. The clearest and most consequential example of this dynamic occurred in Germany, where the main center-left and center-right parties moved to the center. This article argues that pol…
The Life of the Party
The Lost Left
European democracies are going through what may be their most difficult period since the Great Depression. Europe’s mess can be traced to a number of distinct causes, but one that has been largely undervalued is the decline of the center- or social democratic left. This decline has hurt European democracy both directly, as many of these parties’ voters have fled to extremist parties, and also indirectly, for these parties played a crucial role cr…
Bank on Democracy: Why Central Banks Need Public Oversight
The Primacy of Economics versus the Primacy of Politics: Understanding the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century
The current economic crisis has once again bought debates about capitalism and globalization to the forefront of the political agenda. Until very recently almost everyone seemed to be convinced that the world was at the dawn of a new era. Yet, the issue at the heart of globalization debates—whether political forces can dominate economic ones or must bow before them—is not new at all. I show that many of the great ideological and political battles…
Exchange: The Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing
ExchangeThe Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing Sheri Berman (bio) Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder rightly observe that over the last few years the euphoria surrounding democracy's "third wave" has largely diminished as observers have recognized how difficult the path from democratization to consolidation really is. This recognition has prompted the development of a new wave of "preconditionists": As opposed to their predecessors who argued that with…
The Nation: State in Question
Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction: Nation-States in History 1 John A. Hall PART 1 NATIONAL IDENTITIES Chapter 1: Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State 29 Bernard Yack Chapter 2: What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? 51 Brendan O'Leary Chapter 3: A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire 79 Anatoly M. Khazanov Chapter 4: The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Cont…
The Future of Multiracial Democracy: Democracy and Diversity in Western Europe
In a democracy, it is the job of political parties to respond to the needs and demands of citizens. Yet for decades while migration was transforming West European countries, mainstream parties did not address these changes or grapple with their far-reaching social and economic consequences. This created a gap between many citizens' preferences and the appeals and policies offered by mainstream parties. Such "representation gaps" can disrupt party…
European Disintegration: Warnings from History
The irony at the heart of Europe’s current crisis is that although the EU originated as part of a post-1945 effort to consolidate democracy in Western Europe, the Union’s travails are now pushing the continent in the opposite direction instead. Stable democracy is only a product of the post 1945 period in Europe. This article discusses changes that occurred in Europe after the Second World War at both domestic and regional levels and argues that …
American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc., 1941 Membership List
The American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc., 1946 Membership List
The symbol following the address indicates membership status: (C) Charter member; (F) Fellow; (H) Honorary. Numbers in parentheses indicate year of election to membership. The chief organization connection is followed by the mailing address, which may be either the home address or that of the organization
The Life of the Party
Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Practically everywhere one looks these days the concept of "civil society" is in vogue. Neo-Tocquevillean scholars argue that civil society plays a role in driving political, social, and even economic outcomes. This new conventional wisdom, however, is flawed. It is simply not true that democratic government is always strengthened, not weakened, when it faces a vigorous civil society. This essay shows how a robust civil society helped scuttle the…
Civil Society and Political Institutionalization
As a result of the dramatic events of recent years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to explaining what causes democratization as well as what makes democracies vibrant and successful over the long term. Yet, whereas a generation ago most scholars tackling these issues stressed economic, political, or institutional factors, today societal and cultural variables are in vogue. This article argues that examining societal and cultu…
The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe
Path Dependency and Political Action: Reexamining Responses to the Depression
Bank on Democracy: Why Central Banks Need Public Oversight
Tocqueville’s Revenge: State, Society and Economy in Contemporary France
Journal Article Tocqueville’s Revenge: State, Society and Economy in Contemporary France Get access Tocqueville’s Revenge: State, Society and Economy in Contemporary France by Jonah D. Levy. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1999. 386 pp. $55.00. Sheri Berman Sheri Berman Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 311–312…
Modernization in Historical Perspective: The Case of Imperial Germany
In recent years historical research on Imperial Germany has called into question traditional interpretations of this case at the same time that political science research on the “third wave” has transformed the study of political development. This article argues that combining the insights of these two literatures offers benefits to both. For historians, the exercise provides a fresh perspective on the purported distinctiveness of Imperial German…
Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis
The Roots and Rationale of Social Democracy
Two related themes have dominated discussions about the Left in advanced industrial democracies in recent years. The first is that an increasingly integrated world economy is creating a fundamentally new situation for leaders and publics, imposing burdens and constraining choices. You can either opt out of the system and languish, or put on what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called neoliberalism's “Golden Straightjacket”—at which p…
We Didn't Start the Fire: Capitalism and Its Critics, Then and Now
Thanks to globalization, it is often said, the world is at the dawn of a new era. The spread of markets across the globe and the deepening and quickening of economic interconnections have narrowed the choices open to leaders and publics. You can either opt out of the system and languish or put on what Thomas Friedmar calls neoliberalism's golden straitjacket after which economy grows and your politics shrinks. The new order's boosters tout its pr…
Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society
Over recent decades, Islamism—the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life—has become a powerful force throughout much of the Muslim world. Through a discussion of the Egyptian case, this essay shows how the rise of Islamism can be illuminated by findings of the literatures on revolution and civil society, and vice versa. As many leading theories on revolutions would predict, the necessary precondition for Isla…
The Nation: State in Question
Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction: Nation-States in History 1 John A. Hall PART 1 NATIONAL IDENTITIES Chapter 1: Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State 29 Bernard Yack Chapter 2: What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? 51 Brendan O'Leary Chapter 3: A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire 79 Anatoly M. Khazanov Chapter 4: The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Cont…
The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and Nat…
How Democracies Emerge: Lessons from Europe
The best way to understand how stable, well-functioning democracies develop is to analyze the political trajectories such countries have actually taken. The political backstory of most democracies includes struggle, conflict, and even violence. Problems and failures can in retrospect often be seen to be integral parts of the long-term processes through which non-democratic institutions, elites, and cultures were delegitimized and eventually elimi…
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. By Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 331p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.In recent years, there has been a surge in work on what has come to be known as “qualitative methods.” The trend is essentially reactive, developing as a response to the outpouring of work on quantitative and formal methods and the assertions by scholars in those areas that case st…
Exchange: The Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing
ExchangeThe Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing Sheri Berman (bio) Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder rightly observe that over the last few years the euphoria surrounding democracy's "third wave" has largely diminished as observers have recognized how difficult the path from democratization to consolidation really is. This recognition has prompted the development of a new wave of "preconditionists": As opposed to their predecessors who argued that with…
Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons From Europe
A rise in the power of Islamist parties has lent fresh interest to the old question of how revolutionary movements respond to participation in democracy. Pessimists argue that such movements will use any power they gain at the ballot box to subvert democracy, while optimists believe that participation can turn extremists into moderates. The example of 20th century European communist parties shows that political context can trump radical essence, …
Unheralded Battle: Capitalism, the Left, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism
The current financial and economic crisis has once again placed the dangers of capitalism at the forefront of our collective consciousness. The left, which until relatively recently had seemed adrift across much of the Western world, lacking in coherent and convincing responses to globalization and neoliberalism, appears once again poised for a comeback, as citizens yearn for stability and security in difficult times. That the left's fortunes sho…
The Primacy of Economics versus the Primacy of Politics: Understanding the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century
The current economic crisis has once again bought debates about capitalism and globalization to the forefront of the political agenda. Until very recently almost everyone seemed to be convinced that the world was at the dawn of a new era. Yet, the issue at the heart of globalization debates—whether political forces can dominate economic ones or must bow before them—is not new at all. I show that many of the great ideological and political battles…
Ideology, History, and Politics
After years of neglect, scholars have once again begun studying the role played by concepts such as ideas, norms, and culture in political life. While this literature has advanced our understanding of political actors and outcomes in critical ways, it is also plagued by a number of problems, one of which is the focus of this chapter: its status quo bias. The chapter presents a reexamination of social democracy as a reminder of the need to analyze…
Fukuyama’s Grand Vision
Fukuyama’s Grand Vision Sheri Berman (bio) The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 608 pp. With the “Arab Spring” of 2011, the last major regional exception to the “third wave” of global democratization has fallen by the wayside—or has it? The transitions in Tunisia and Egypt (the first two regional “dominoes” to fall) are still in their early stages. In t…
Social Democracy and the Creation of the Public Interest
The Swedish case bears out Lewin's contention, in Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics, that public spiritedness is much more important than is suggested by public-choice theories positing the universal dominance of self-interestedness. However, in Sweden we find that public spiritedness on the part of the public—as evidenced, for example, in sociotropic voting—was cultivated by political institutions, policies, and rhetoric that…
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