Stephen Holme
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Holme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Holme |
| SIGNATURE | HOLME S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4024-8265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rusia en la visión de un constitucionalista: Fragmentos de un Estado difunto
Con la colaboración de Carmen Carrillo Franco, de la Universidad Complutense, hemos recuperado un artículo del profesor Stephen Holmes convenientemente actualizado por su autor, que exhibe dos importantes insumos hábilmente entrelazados. La reflexión madura de un constitucionalista que no renuncia a integrar en un mismo plano el estudio de la dimensión política y la jurídica-institucional, y su apabullante comprensión del desorden degenerativo qu…
Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turn…
Light That Failed: A Reckoning
Populismes à l'Est: Une Angoisse Démographique
Imitation and Its Discontents
For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to "be like the West" has generated discontent and even a "return of the repressed," as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures. Further contributing to illiberalism in the region is a largely unspoken preoccupation with demographic collapse—resulting from aging populations, low birth rates, and massive outmigration—which manifests as a fear that the …
Putinism Under Siege: An Autopsy of Managed Democracy
Although they have quieted down as quickly as they flared up, the clamorous protests that followed the dishonest Russian legislative elections in December 2011 have essentially destroyed Putin’s regime, the infamous “managed democracy.” In order to unravel the enigma of “managed democracy,” we need to answer a few simple questions: What is the political function of rigged elections for a government that has never really pretended to be a democrac…
Saved by Danger/Destroyed by Success. The Argument of Tocqueville's Souvenirs
Into the ironic narrative of his Souvenirs, Tocqueville weaves a schematic saved-by-danger vs. destroyed-by-success scheme to illuminate the conditions under which revolutionary movements are crushed or prevail. Emergencies focus distracted minds on a single aim-in-view and moderate competitive emotions, encouraging talented members of a privileged group to pool their resources cooperatively. Contrariwise, less salient dangers creep up on privile…
A European Doppelstaat
Why International Justice Limps
ON August 31, 1946, Albert Speer delivered his final remarks at the Nuremberg trials. He spoke not to exculpate himself, he explained, but to warn the West about some poorly understood dangers of modern technology. In five or ten years, he told the court, due to advances in nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry, “10 men, invisible, without previous warning, faster than sound, by day and by night” will be able to “destroy one million people i…
Liberalism in the Mirror of Transnational Terror
On September 11, America's insularity was cruelly breached. The vast Atlantic and Pacific - forbidding moats separating the country's inhabitants from most of mankind - no longer safeguard the home front from foreigner marauders who wish us ill. Refusing to stay decently buried in the past, an archaic sectarian conflict burst forth to shed civilian blood on American soil
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century and The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography Get access A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. By Rybczynski Witold. (New York: Scribner, 1999. 480 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.00.)The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography. By Holmes Stephen J.. (Madison: University of…
Gag rules or the politics of omission
A conversation is invariably shaped by what its participants decide not to say. To avoid destructive conflicts, we suppress controversial themes. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, old friends shun the subject of Israel in order to keep old friendships intact. Burying a divisive issue, of course, can be viewed censoriously—as evasiveness rather than diplomacy. But conflict-shyness is not merely craven: it can serve positive goals. By tying our tongues …
The Differentiation of Society
I. Two Concepts of Legitimacy: France after the Revolution
Liberal Uses of Bourbon Legitimism
Social Justice in the Liberal State. Bruce A. Ackerman Justice and the Human Good. William A. Galston
Aristippus in and out of Athens
This article has two purposes. The first is to show how some of the central principles of classical Greek political theory became anachronistic as a result of massive transformations in the underlying structure of European society. These principles, it is argued, were originally dependent on an empirical premise that the polity is a "whole" encompassing individual "parts," or (stated differently) that the polity is identical with total society. T…
Imitation and Its Discontents
For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to "be like the West" has generated discontent and even a "return of the repressed," as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures. Further contributing to illiberalism in the region is a largely unspoken preoccupation with demographic collapse—resulting from aging populations, low birth rates, and massive outmigration—which manifests as a fear that the …
Aristippus in and out of Athens
This article has two purposes. The first is to show how some of the central principles of classical Greek political theory became anachronistic as a result of massive transformations in the underlying structure of European society. These principles, it is argued, were originally dependent on an empirical premise that the polity is a "whole" encompassing individual "parts," or (stated differently) that the polity is identical with total society. T…
Putinism Under Siege: An Autopsy of Managed Democracy
Although they have quieted down as quickly as they flared up, the clamorous protests that followed the dishonest Russian legislative elections in December 2011 have essentially destroyed Putin’s regime, the infamous “managed democracy.” In order to unravel the enigma of “managed democracy,” we need to answer a few simple questions: What is the political function of rigged elections for a government that has never really pretended to be a democrac…
A European Doppelstaat
I. Two Concepts of Legitimacy: France after the Revolution
Populismes à l'Est: Une Angoisse Démographique
Liberalism in the Mirror of Transnational Terror
On September 11, America's insularity was cruelly breached. The vast Atlantic and Pacific - forbidding moats separating the country's inhabitants from most of mankind - no longer safeguard the home front from foreigner marauders who wish us ill. Refusing to stay decently buried in the past, an archaic sectarian conflict burst forth to shed civilian blood on American soil
Liberal Uses of Bourbon Legitimism
Aristippus in and out of Athens
This article has two purposes. The first is to show how some of the central principles of classical Greek political theory became anachronistic as a result of massive transformations in the underlying structure of European society. These principles, it is argued, were originally dependent on an empirical premise that the polity is a "whole" encompassing individual "parts," or (stated differently) that the polity is identical with total society. T…
Social Justice in the Liberal State. Bruce A. Ackerman Justice and the Human Good. William A. Galston
I. Two Concepts of Legitimacy: France after the Revolution
Liberal Uses of Bourbon Legitimism
The Differentiation of Society
Gag rules or the politics of omission
A conversation is invariably shaped by what its participants decide not to say. To avoid destructive conflicts, we suppress controversial themes. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, old friends shun the subject of Israel in order to keep old friendships intact. Burying a divisive issue, of course, can be viewed censoriously—as evasiveness rather than diplomacy. But conflict-shyness is not merely craven: it can serve positive goals. By tying our tongues …
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century and The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography Get access A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. By Rybczynski Witold. (New York: Scribner, 1999. 480 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.00.)The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography. By Holmes Stephen J.. (Madison: University of…
Liberalism in the Mirror of Transnational Terror
On September 11, America's insularity was cruelly breached. The vast Atlantic and Pacific - forbidding moats separating the country's inhabitants from most of mankind - no longer safeguard the home front from foreigner marauders who wish us ill. Refusing to stay decently buried in the past, an archaic sectarian conflict burst forth to shed civilian blood on American soil
Why International Justice Limps
ON August 31, 1946, Albert Speer delivered his final remarks at the Nuremberg trials. He spoke not to exculpate himself, he explained, but to warn the West about some poorly understood dangers of modern technology. In five or ten years, he told the court, due to advances in nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry, “10 men, invisible, without previous warning, faster than sound, by day and by night” will be able to “destroy one million people i…
A European Doppelstaat
Saved by Danger/Destroyed by Success. The Argument of Tocqueville's Souvenirs
Into the ironic narrative of his Souvenirs, Tocqueville weaves a schematic saved-by-danger vs. destroyed-by-success scheme to illuminate the conditions under which revolutionary movements are crushed or prevail. Emergencies focus distracted minds on a single aim-in-view and moderate competitive emotions, encouraging talented members of a privileged group to pool their resources cooperatively. Contrariwise, less salient dangers creep up on privile…
Putinism Under Siege: An Autopsy of Managed Democracy
Although they have quieted down as quickly as they flared up, the clamorous protests that followed the dishonest Russian legislative elections in December 2011 have essentially destroyed Putin’s regime, the infamous “managed democracy.” In order to unravel the enigma of “managed democracy,” we need to answer a few simple questions: What is the political function of rigged elections for a government that has never really pretended to be a democrac…
Imitation and Its Discontents
For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to "be like the West" has generated discontent and even a "return of the repressed," as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures. Further contributing to illiberalism in the region is a largely unspoken preoccupation with demographic collapse—resulting from aging populations, low birth rates, and massive outmigration—which manifests as a fear that the …
Light That Failed: A Reckoning
Populismes à l'Est: Une Angoisse Démographique
Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turn…
Rusia en la visión de un constitucionalista: Fragmentos de un Estado difunto
Con la colaboración de Carmen Carrillo Franco, de la Universidad Complutense, hemos recuperado un artículo del profesor Stephen Holmes convenientemente actualizado por su autor, que exhibe dos importantes insumos hábilmente entrelazados. La reflexión madura de un constitucionalista que no renuncia a integrar en un mismo plano el estudio de la dimensión política y la jurídica-institucional, y su apabullante comprensión del desorden degenerativo qu…
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