Sanford Lakoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 759187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanford Lakoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanford |
| FAMILY NAME | Lakoff |
| SIGNATURE | LAKOFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Democracy: History, Theory, Practice
This book reviews the historical development of democracy and the backlash against it, the theoretical character of modern democracy, the practical problems of establishing and maintaining democracy, and the meaning of democracy and its prospects.
Inequality as a Danger to Democracy: Reflections on Piketty's Warning
Journal Article Inequality as a Danger to Democracy: Reflections on Piketty's Warning Get access Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff SANFORD LAKOFF is Dickson Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Equality in Political Philosophy, Democracy: History, Theory, Practice, and Ten Political Ideas That Have Shaped the Modern World. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Liberalism in America: Hartz and his critics
Over the past 50 years, Louis Hartz’s reinterpretation of American political thought has had considerable influence – both in shaping later studies and provoking rebuttals. Drawing on Tocqueville’s observation that Americans were fortunate in having been ‘born equal’ instead of having to become so by revolution, Hartz compared American political thought with that of Britain and France in order to show that America has been enthralled by an ‘irrat…
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference. By Davina Cooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 246p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.In the Encyclopedia (1751–65), the Chevalier de Jaucourt observed that while “natural equality” is the moral foundation of liberty, “absolute equality” in society is a “chimera” of fanatic minds. In the social state, he explained, distinctions and subordinations are necessary, incl…
Debate: The Reality of Muslim Exceptionalism
Alfred Stepan’s contention that the “democracy gap” in the Arab world is due not to religion but to other influences is provocative but not persuasive. Almost all Muslim-majority states score low on surveys of freedom. Several of the more populous states listed as Muslim-majority states of a democratic tendency are dubious candidates for that rubric. Both mainstream and radical Islamic clerics contend that the faith is incompatible with democracy…
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land
Journal Article Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land. By Sanford Lakoff. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxii, 323 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-226-46831-3.) Get access Paul V. Murphy Paul V. Murphy Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Page 1389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568699 Published: 01…
Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism
Alexis de Tocqueville is not easily characterized as either a liberal or a conservative. In this respect he resembles Edmund Burke. Both may be best understood as “liberal conservatives”—figures who straddled both camps. On a number of specific dimensions, including their attitudes toward aristocracy, colonialism, property, rationalism, the tyranny of the majority, pluralism, and the meaning of history, they are remarkably similar. Their thinking…
Between Either/Or and More or Less: Sovereignty Versus Autonomy Under Federalism
The concept ofsovereignty arose with the appearance ofthe modern state. It has survived because the state has survived as the seemingly necessary basis for political order. The persistence of cultural and ethnic nationalism and international anarchy has given the state a new lease on life. Countertendencies, including a reaction against the monarchical absolutism associated with sovereignty, have given rise to federal systems offering a flexible,…
Desert Snowstorm: Revisionism and the Gulf War
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A Reflection on Long-term Implications
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Science policy after the cold war: Problems and opportunities
The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers, by Sheila Jasanoff
A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State, by Chandra Mukerji
Journal Article A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State, by Chandra Mukerji Get access A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State by Chandra Mukerji. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990. 253 pp. $24.95. Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 378–379, https://doi.org/1…
A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative
A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative
Autonomy and Liberal Democracy
Continuing philosophic doubt concerning the moral foundations of human rights threatens to undermine the growing belief in liberal democracy. This doubt has its roots in the reaction against the Enlightenment and is evident even in John Rawls's retreat from the apparent universalism of his theory of justice. There are good grounds, however, for regarding the traditional Western belief in moral and political autonomy as a sound basis for human rig…
Controlling the Qualitative Arms Race: The Primacy of Politics
Despite progress in negotiating treaties to ban deployment of particular classes of weapons, such as the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the "qualitative" arms race remains largely uncontrolled. Supposed theoretical obstacles, based on various versions of technological determinism, need not be a barrier to practical efforts, however. The reasoning usually cited to explain the competition does not preclude agreement to control it. The va…
A Review of Governing Science and Technology in a Democracy
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Why SDI
Since the onset of the Cold War, and particularly after both superpowers began to amass large arsenals of nuclear weapons, military planners in the East and West have encouraged efforts to develop defenses against nuclear attacks. Both sides have made effective use of “passive” defenses, such as the hardening and dispersal of weapons systems likely to be the prime targets of a preemptive strike and the provision of shelters for command authoritie…
Visions of history
Jean-Jacques: The early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1754
Biotechnology and the Developing Countries
One does not have to be a natural scientist or a science writer to appreciate the possible benefits of biotechnology for the developing countries, but one cannot be a social scientist without being apprehensive about the costs and unforeseen consequences these almost miraculous advances may entail. In the past few decades, it has become obvious that development or modernization is much more complex and harder to achieve than was often supposed wh…
Author's Response
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Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity, by Claude E. Barfield
Journal Article Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity, by Claude E. Barfield Get access Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity by Claude E. Barfield, Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. 142 pp. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $5.95. Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pol…
Commentary on Zilinskas's Article
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Debate: The Reality of Muslim Exceptionalism
Alfred Stepan’s contention that the “democracy gap” in the Arab world is due not to religion but to other influences is provocative but not persuasive. Almost all Muslim-majority states score low on surveys of freedom. Several of the more populous states listed as Muslim-majority states of a democratic tendency are dubious candidates for that rubric. Both mainstream and radical Islamic clerics contend that the faith is incompatible with democracy…
Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism
Alexis de Tocqueville is not easily characterized as either a liberal or a conservative. In this respect he resembles Edmund Burke. Both may be best understood as “liberal conservatives”—figures who straddled both camps. On a number of specific dimensions, including their attitudes toward aristocracy, colonialism, property, rationalism, the tyranny of the majority, pluralism, and the meaning of history, they are remarkably similar. Their thinking…
Criteria for Scientific Development: Public Policy and National Goals
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference. By Davina Cooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 246p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.In the Encyclopedia (1751–65), the Chevalier de Jaucourt observed that while “natural equality” is the moral foundation of liberty, “absolute equality” in society is a “chimera” of fanatic minds. In the social state, he explained, distinctions and subordinations are necessary, incl…
Autonomy and Liberal Democracy
Continuing philosophic doubt concerning the moral foundations of human rights threatens to undermine the growing belief in liberal democracy. This doubt has its roots in the reaction against the Enlightenment and is evident even in John Rawls's retreat from the apparent universalism of his theory of justice. There are good grounds, however, for regarding the traditional Western belief in moral and political autonomy as a sound basis for human rig…
Biotechnology and the Developing Countries
One does not have to be a natural scientist or a science writer to appreciate the possible benefits of biotechnology for the developing countries, but one cannot be a social scientist without being apprehensive about the costs and unforeseen consequences these almost miraculous advances may entail. In the past few decades, it has become obvious that development or modernization is much more complex and harder to achieve than was often supposed wh…
Science and the Nation. Policy and Politics
Knowledge, Power, and Democratic Theory
The union of knowledge and power, long urged by philosophers, is on the verge of full consummation, thanks to the advance of science and the indispensability of expert advice in the face of rapid technological change. Does this union spell the death of democracy? Should a sharp distinction be drawn between natural and social knowledge? Experience with natural scientists indicates that there is room for considerable disagreement when knowledge is …
Inequality as a Danger to Democracy: Reflections on Piketty's Warning
Journal Article Inequality as a Danger to Democracy: Reflections on Piketty's Warning Get access Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff SANFORD LAKOFF is Dickson Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Equality in Political Philosophy, Democracy: History, Theory, Practice, and Ten Political Ideas That Have Shaped the Modern World. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Science policy after the cold war: Problems and opportunities
A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State, by Chandra Mukerji
Journal Article A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State, by Chandra Mukerji Get access A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State by Chandra Mukerji. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990. 253 pp. $24.95. Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 378–379, https://doi.org/1…
Controlling the Qualitative Arms Race: The Primacy of Politics
Despite progress in negotiating treaties to ban deployment of particular classes of weapons, such as the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the "qualitative" arms race remains largely uncontrolled. Supposed theoretical obstacles, based on various versions of technological determinism, need not be a barrier to practical efforts, however. The reasoning usually cited to explain the competition does not preclude agreement to control it. The va…
Why SDI
Since the onset of the Cold War, and particularly after both superpowers began to amass large arsenals of nuclear weapons, military planners in the East and West have encouraged efforts to develop defenses against nuclear attacks. Both sides have made effective use of “passive” defenses, such as the hardening and dispersal of weapons systems likely to be the prime targets of a preemptive strike and the provision of shelters for command authoritie…
Congress and National Science Policy
The recent efforts by Congress to reassert some of its constitutional prerogatives, which began with the reaction against involvement in Vietnam and continues in the wake of the Watergate affair, have made the role of the legislative branch a more lively issue than it has been at perhaps any other time in this century. The degree of legislative involvement affects many areas of government policy, including the complex of issues and activities tha…
Science and the Nation. Policy and Politics
Equality in Political Philosophy
Equality in Political Philosophy
Equality in Political Philosophy
Where Science and Politics Meet. Jerome B. Wiesner
Yesterday’s Tomorrows: A Historical Survey of Future Societies by W. H. G. Armytage (review)
124 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE into partial eclipse during the urban-industrial age. It is probably a groping for some of the lost values of preindustrial life that, more than any other type of pressure, has sparked the exodus from urban core areas which was already marked in the 19th century, has been so characteristic of our own time, and will in all likelihood continue despite all efforts to resuscitate the “inner city.” It is conceiv…
Criteria for Scientific Development: Public Policy and National Goals
Science and Conscience
Yesterday's Tomorrows: A Historical Survey of Future Societies
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
Knowledge, Power, and Democratic Theory
The union of knowledge and power, long urged by philosophers, is on the verge of full consummation, thanks to the advance of science and the indispensability of expert advice in the face of rapid technological change. Does this union spell the death of democracy? Should a sharp distinction be drawn between natural and social knowledge? Experience with natural scientists indicates that there is room for considerable disagreement when knowledge is …
The New Left: Six Critical Essays on Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, Frantz Fanon, Black Power, and R. D. Laing, by Maurice Cranston
Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society
The vicissitudes of American science policy at home and abroad
Congress and National Science Policy
The recent efforts by Congress to reassert some of its constitutional prerogatives, which began with the reaction against involvement in Vietnam and continues in the wake of the Watergate affair, have made the role of the legislative branch a more lively issue than it has been at perhaps any other time in this century. The degree of legislative involvement affects many areas of government policy, including the complex of issues and activities tha…
The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government, by Harvey M. Sapolsky ; The Future of the Sea-Based Deterrent, by Kosta Tsipis, Anne H. Cahn and Bernard T. Field
Committee on Research Support
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Scientists and World Order: The Uses of Technical Knowledge in International Organizations . Ernst B. Haas , Mary Pat Williams , Don Babai
Science Advice to the President: A Special Issue of Technology in Society, by William T. Golden
Commentary on Zilinskas's Article
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Energy and American Values
A multi-disciplinary team consisting of an engineer, a political scientist, an historian, and a professor of religion and physics view the question of energy and values from each other's perspective. The result is a synthesis of the team's views on all aspects of energy technology and how it affects human life in general as well as the lives of different classes and specific groups in our society. It begins with an historic overview of the way an…
Biotechnology and the Developing Countries
One does not have to be a natural scientist or a science writer to appreciate the possible benefits of biotechnology for the developing countries, but one cannot be a social scientist without being apprehensive about the costs and unforeseen consequences these almost miraculous advances may entail. In the past few decades, it has become obvious that development or modernization is much more complex and harder to achieve than was often supposed wh…
Author's Response
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Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity, by Claude E. Barfield
Journal Article Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity, by Claude E. Barfield Get access Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity by Claude E. Barfield, Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. 142 pp. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $5.95. Sanford Lakoff Sanford Lakoff University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pol…
Jean-Jacques: The early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1754
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