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A Tale of Two Cities: The 1999 Philadelphia Mayoral Election
Get PDFRace was the defining issue of the 1999 Philadelphia mayoral election. In an overwhelmingly Democratic city, the Democratic candidate, an African-American with two decades of experience in local government, narrowly defeated the white Republican candidate with little experience in Philadelphia government. Examining the results of the primary and general elections, the author finds that the vote was sharply divided along racial lines, even though the candidates in the general election refrained from racial appeals and ran issue-oriented campaigns. In big city politics, race thus still matters
The Relevance of Gender: A Case Study of Judicial Appointents at the State Level
Get PDFInformation gathered as a participant observer on the Maryland judicial nominating commission and from hearings on gender bias in the Maryland courts, along with interviews, will be used to show that the attitudes of the gatekeepers toward women were less decisive than previous research suggested in having women appointed to the bench. It will be argued that the credentials of the male applicants played a more crucial role in the deliberations of the judicial nominating commission than positive attitudes towards women or gender neutral views
The Will of the Community: Theories of Representation at the Founding and in Recent Political Practice
Get PDFIn this essay, we develop the contrasting perspectives on representation advocated by the opposing sides at Poughkeepsie and the other state ratifying conventions, with some reference to the Philadelphia convention as well. The ratification struggle in New York State is emphasized because it produced America\u27s contribution to the classics of western political thought, The Federalist and a well-articulated debate between two key protagonists, Alexander Hamilton and Melancton Smith. The continuing relevance of the positions advanced during the ratification debates of 1787 and 1788 can be found in the municipal reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the "apportionment revolution" of the last generation, and in the redistricting of the New York City Council in 1991
Hegel\u27s Constitutionalism
No full textThis paper examines the historical, philosophical, and theoretical importance of Hegel\u27s concept of constitutionalism by indicating its role in his theory of the modem state. Hegel\u27s view of constitutionalism is distinct from contemporary applications of the term, is crucial to his uttempt to reconcile the diremptions of Modernity, and is used to forge an ethical community in the modern state
Forsaking the Market: Price Controls and Ideological Change in the United States
Get PDFA central component of the American political ethos has been that there ought to be a complementary relationship between the liberal polity and free-market capitalism. When such a relationship exists the distinction between the two spheres is presumably dissolved by the liberty guaranteed by each to the other. This paper consists of an analysis of editorials and columns in the American prestige press on the question of the desirability of price and wage control during the 1940s and 1970s and assumes that such an issue highlights the relationship of politics and economics. The analysis reveals that the editorial position of the New York Times had changed from reluctant to strong support for controls based on a perceived crisis of fairness in the American political economy during the early 1970s. The concern with fairness during the 1970s was mirrored in reverse in Wall Street Joumal editorials and columns opposing controls and suggests that a scramble for economic shares had taken precedence over the more traditional concern to preserve political and economic liberty
Public-Private Sector Relationships in Professional Sports: The Case of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Get PDFRelations between the public and private sectors are increasingly important, as service providers search for more efficient and effective ways to deliver both "public" and "private" services. This article explores the creative cooperation between public and private sectors in retaining the Pirate baseball franchise in Pittsburgh. The findings have implications for other troubled sports franchises, and potentially relate to other types of services, as well