Ronald J Terchek
Biographic Data
| ID | 370965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald J Terchek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Terchek |
| SIGNATURE | TERCHEK R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching Democracy: A Survey of Courses in Democratic Theory
Democratic theory is an exciting field today, both in its rich, textured, abundant research and in the varied courses taught at American colleges and universities. We use its subject matter as a benchmark to judge the politics of the United States as well as that of other countries. The scope of research in this subfield has expanded debates about the meanings, purposes, and reach of democracy, and it raises questions for instructors about what t…
Theories of Democracy: A Reader
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary comm…
Recovering the Political Aristotle: A Critical Response to Smith
Thomas Smith presents an Aristotelian view of the common good that resembles much contemporary political theory in that it focuses on ethics rather than politics. Smith contends that Aristotle is a potent remedy to a society in crisis due to its unconcern about the common good. Against Smith's apolitical reading of Aristotle, we examine how Aristotle's views of common advantage, the multiple needs of citizens, and political friendship support nei…
Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness. Peter Johnson
Punishing Liberals or Rehabilitating Liberalism
In the September 1988 issue of this Review , Stanley C. Brubaker argued that liberals strive for neutrality concerning how people should live and that this moral ambivalence prevented them from punishing. In this Controversy, Ronald Terchek denies that liberalism is crippled by moral relativism or incapacitated for punishment. In return, Brubaker defends his firm no to the question, Can liberals punish
Books in Review
Options to stress: Emigration and militancy in Northern Ireland
Political Tolerance and American Democracy. John L. Sullivan , James Piereson , George E. Marcus
Ten Years on in Northern Ireland: The Legal Control of Political Violence
Political Participation and Political Structures: The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Incentives and Voter Participation: A Research Note
Charles Hamilton reported in these pages on the disparity between voter registration and actual voting in Harlem.1 According to Hamilton, the substantial efforts and resources that accompanied registration drives were not devoted to mobilizing voters to vote on election day. Another explanation which supplements Hamilton's findings concerns the relevance of election issues, the symbolic importance of ethnicity to voters, and the expected competit…
Conflict and Cleavage in Northern Ireland
The ethnic strife in Northern Ireland is more than a repetition of ancient native-Catholic/Protestant-settler conflicts. One of the major contemporary issues, partition, dates back to 1921 and is the basis of the declaration of war by the Irish Republican Army on Great Britain. The other conflict is of more recent origin and involves the inclusion of the Catholic third of the population in the government and an end to institutionalized discrimina…
Protest and Bargaining
Protest has become an increasingly common mode of political expression. Although the literature is replete with case studies and theories about the causes, processes, and structure of protest, little attention has been given to the relationship between changes engendered by protest and the bargaining structure and the political culture of the community in which protest occurs. Wilson and Lipsky have provided two important models of protest and ch…
Conflict and Cleavage in Northern Ireland
The ethnic strife in Northern Ireland is more than a repetition of ancient native-Catholic/Protestant-settler conflicts. One of the major contemporary issues, partition, dates back to 1921 and is the basis of the declaration of war by the Irish Republican Army on Great Britain. The other conflict is of more recent origin and involves the inclusion of the Catholic third of the population in the government and an end to institutionalized discrimina…
Recovering the Political Aristotle: A Critical Response to Smith
Thomas Smith presents an Aristotelian view of the common good that resembles much contemporary political theory in that it focuses on ethics rather than politics. Smith contends that Aristotle is a potent remedy to a society in crisis due to its unconcern about the common good. Against Smith's apolitical reading of Aristotle, we examine how Aristotle's views of common advantage, the multiple needs of citizens, and political friendship support nei…
Protest and Bargaining
Protest has become an increasingly common mode of political expression. Although the literature is replete with case studies and theories about the causes, processes, and structure of protest, little attention has been given to the relationship between changes engendered by protest and the bargaining structure and the political culture of the community in which protest occurs. Wilson and Lipsky have provided two important models of protest and ch…
Protest and Bargaining
Protest has become an increasingly common mode of political expression. Although the literature is replete with case studies and theories about the causes, processes, and structure of protest, little attention has been given to the relationship between changes engendered by protest and the bargaining structure and the political culture of the community in which protest occurs. Wilson and Lipsky have provided two important models of protest and ch…
Conflict and Cleavage in Northern Ireland
The ethnic strife in Northern Ireland is more than a repetition of ancient native-Catholic/Protestant-settler conflicts. One of the major contemporary issues, partition, dates back to 1921 and is the basis of the declaration of war by the Irish Republican Army on Great Britain. The other conflict is of more recent origin and involves the inclusion of the Catholic third of the population in the government and an end to institutionalized discrimina…
Incentives and Voter Participation: A Research Note
Charles Hamilton reported in these pages on the disparity between voter registration and actual voting in Harlem.1 According to Hamilton, the substantial efforts and resources that accompanied registration drives were not devoted to mobilizing voters to vote on election day. Another explanation which supplements Hamilton's findings concerns the relevance of election issues, the symbolic importance of ethnicity to voters, and the expected competit…
Political Participation and Political Structures: The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ten Years on in Northern Ireland: The Legal Control of Political Violence
Political Tolerance and American Democracy. John L. Sullivan , James Piereson , George E. Marcus
Options to stress: Emigration and militancy in Northern Ireland
Books in Review
Punishing Liberals or Rehabilitating Liberalism
In the September 1988 issue of this Review , Stanley C. Brubaker argued that liberals strive for neutrality concerning how people should live and that this moral ambivalence prevented them from punishing. In this Controversy, Ronald Terchek denies that liberalism is crippled by moral relativism or incapacitated for punishment. In return, Brubaker defends his firm no to the question, Can liberals punish
Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness. Peter Johnson
Theories of Democracy: A Reader
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary comm…
Recovering the Political Aristotle: A Critical Response to Smith
Thomas Smith presents an Aristotelian view of the common good that resembles much contemporary political theory in that it focuses on ethics rather than politics. Smith contends that Aristotle is a potent remedy to a society in crisis due to its unconcern about the common good. Against Smith's apolitical reading of Aristotle, we examine how Aristotle's views of common advantage, the multiple needs of citizens, and political friendship support nei…
Teaching Democracy: A Survey of Courses in Democratic Theory
Democratic theory is an exciting field today, both in its rich, textured, abundant research and in the varied courses taught at American colleges and universities. We use its subject matter as a benchmark to judge the politics of the United States as well as that of other countries. The scope of research in this subfield has expanded debates about the meanings, purposes, and reach of democracy, and it raises questions for instructors about what t…
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