Elizabeth Markovits
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Markovits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Markovits |
| SIGNATURE | MARKOVITS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9395-0651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from public control. In turn, these developments cast doubt on the viability and desir…
Beyond populism and technocracy: The challenges and limits of democratic epistemology
Feeling women’s liberation
Constructing Freedom: Institutional Pathways to Changing the Gender Division of Labor
In recent years, there has been renewed public discussion regarding the relationship between women’s equality and their traditional responsibility for carework. In this essay, we analyze the structures of choice and constraint that continue to produce the gender division of family labor and thus women's unequal participation in the public sphere. We conceptualize this as a problem of democratic freedom, one that requires building institutional pa…
As If We Were Codgers: Flattery, Parrhēsia and Old Man Demos in Aristophanes’ Knights
In Knights, Aristophanes represents the dangers of parrhēsia run amuck with the near-destruction of an elderly man’s (Demos) Athenian household by Paphlagon (a stand-in for the Athenian politician Cleon). In this setting, Paphlagon’s invocations of his own parrhēsia and goodwill become a destructive form of flattery, causing chaos in the household and threatening its viability. This article begins with a discussion of the problem of parrhēsia in …
Birthrights: Freedom, Responsibility, and Democratic Comportment in Aeschylus'Oresteia
Through an examination of Aeschylus'Oresteia, this essay argues for the critical importance of intergenerational justice to democratic theory. It explores the difficulties of democratic responsibility given the tension between necessity and freedom central to questions of intergenerational justice. The essay first details the relevant lacunae in the theories of two major figures of contemporary democratic theory, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. I…
The politics of sincerity: Plato, frank speech and democratic judgment
Elizabeth Markovits argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements." "Her argument takes her back to an examination of the Greek notion of parrhesia (frank speech), and she draws from her study of the Platonic dialogues a nuanced understanding of this ancient analogue of "straight talk." She s…
The Trouble with Being Earnest: Deliberative Democracy and the Sincerity Norm
The Enemy Makes the Man: U.S. Foreign Policy, Cuban Nationalism, and Regime Survival
U.S. policy feeds Cuban fears and frustrations, strengthening nationalist feeling whenever Castro’s government seems most vulnerable
The Trouble with Being Earnest: Deliberative Democracy and the Sincerity Norm
Beyond populism and technocracy: The challenges and limits of democratic epistemology
Constructing Freedom: Institutional Pathways to Changing the Gender Division of Labor
In recent years, there has been renewed public discussion regarding the relationship between women’s equality and their traditional responsibility for carework. In this essay, we analyze the structures of choice and constraint that continue to produce the gender division of family labor and thus women's unequal participation in the public sphere. We conceptualize this as a problem of democratic freedom, one that requires building institutional pa…
Birthrights: Freedom, Responsibility, and Democratic Comportment in Aeschylus'Oresteia
Through an examination of Aeschylus'Oresteia, this essay argues for the critical importance of intergenerational justice to democratic theory. It explores the difficulties of democratic responsibility given the tension between necessity and freedom central to questions of intergenerational justice. The essay first details the relevant lacunae in the theories of two major figures of contemporary democratic theory, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. I…
The Enemy Makes the Man: U.S. Foreign Policy, Cuban Nationalism, and Regime Survival
U.S. policy feeds Cuban fears and frustrations, strengthening nationalist feeling whenever Castro’s government seems most vulnerable
The Trouble with Being Earnest: Deliberative Democracy and the Sincerity Norm
The politics of sincerity: Plato, frank speech and democratic judgment
Elizabeth Markovits argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements." "Her argument takes her back to an examination of the Greek notion of parrhesia (frank speech), and she draws from her study of the Platonic dialogues a nuanced understanding of this ancient analogue of "straight talk." She s…
Birthrights: Freedom, Responsibility, and Democratic Comportment in Aeschylus'Oresteia
Through an examination of Aeschylus'Oresteia, this essay argues for the critical importance of intergenerational justice to democratic theory. It explores the difficulties of democratic responsibility given the tension between necessity and freedom central to questions of intergenerational justice. The essay first details the relevant lacunae in the theories of two major figures of contemporary democratic theory, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. I…
As If We Were Codgers: Flattery, Parrhēsia and Old Man Demos in Aristophanes’ Knights
In Knights, Aristophanes represents the dangers of parrhēsia run amuck with the near-destruction of an elderly man’s (Demos) Athenian household by Paphlagon (a stand-in for the Athenian politician Cleon). In this setting, Paphlagon’s invocations of his own parrhēsia and goodwill become a destructive form of flattery, causing chaos in the household and threatening its viability. This article begins with a discussion of the problem of parrhēsia in …
Constructing Freedom: Institutional Pathways to Changing the Gender Division of Labor
In recent years, there has been renewed public discussion regarding the relationship between women’s equality and their traditional responsibility for carework. In this essay, we analyze the structures of choice and constraint that continue to produce the gender division of family labor and thus women's unequal participation in the public sphere. We conceptualize this as a problem of democratic freedom, one that requires building institutional pa…
Feeling women’s liberation
Beyond populism and technocracy: The challenges and limits of democratic epistemology
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from public control. In turn, these developments cast doubt on the viability and desir…
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